republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1969.md

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Bill	Small Business Jobs Grant Fund Program; reduces minimum percentage of revenues.	Reduces from 50 percent to 35 percent the minimum percentage of revenues that a small business must derive from out-of-state sources in order to be eligible for grants from the Small Business Jobs Grant Fund Program. The bill reduces from $100,000 to $50,000 the minimum new capital investment that a company is required to make to be eligible for assistance under the Program. Finally, the bill changes the definition of small business for purposes of the Program from a company that has 250 or fewer employees to one that has 50 or fewer employees in its base year and average annual gross receipts of $3 million or less averaged over the previous 24-month period.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1969	Virginia HB 1969 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Trade and Commerce	enacted	R. Steven Landes	4	18	8	2017-01-10	2017-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/04b25b14-8a39-40d6-9ce1-44e516731536	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1969	f7f5d8ebafdf146b066d77994f72b686677b3d06ca1750b694d6cd80ea0881ed	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1969 (2017) — Small Business Jobs Grant Fund Program; reduces minimum percentage of revenues.

Reduces from 50 percent to 35 percent the minimum percentage of revenues that a small business must derive from out-of-state sources in order to be eligible for grants from the Small Business Jobs Grant Fund Program. The bill reduces from $100,000 to $50,000 the minimum new capital investment that a company is required to make to be eligible for assistance under the Program. Finally, the bill changes the definition of small business for purposes of the Program from a company that has 250 or fewer employees to one that has 50 or fewer employees in its base year and average annual gross receipts of $3 million or less averaged over the previous 24-month period.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1969ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100307D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17100307D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 98–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
• David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
• James P. "Jimmie" Massie, III — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey L. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100307D introduction
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 referral-committee
• 2017-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-27 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-27 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-01-27 Engrossed by House as amended HB1969E
• 2017-01-27 Printed as engrossed 17100307D-E
• 2017-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2017-02-16 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-20 Enrolled
• 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-21 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 264 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/04b25b14-8a39-40d6-9ce1-44e516731536. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).