---
type: "Bill"
title: "Precision Plastic Manufacturing Grant Fund; created."
description: "Precision Plastic Manufacturing Grant Fund; created."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2238"
citation: "Virginia HB 2238 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cherry"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-03-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2e3b0e6-74b7-4a9a-bcee-1b7b407c191c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2238"
source_hash: "c59f84c1879f2b72da0aee8a1fd07341a887c958348a1e11e4b71d06e65ef539"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 2238 (2023) — Precision Plastic Manufacturing Grant Fund; created.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0154** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0154)
2. **HB2238ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2238ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100959D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2238)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: (96-Y 4-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cherry — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100959D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-18** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB2238)
- **2023-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-24** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-01-24** VOTE: (96-Y 4-N)
- **2023-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-01-25** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-10** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-14** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2238ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Impact statement from DPB (HB2238ER)
- **2023-02-14** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-22** Approved by Governor-Chapter 154 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-22** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0154)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b2e3b0e6-74b7-4a9a-bcee-1b7b407c191c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).