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type: "Bill"
title: "Labor market information; transfer of administration from Virginia Employment Commission."
description: "Requires the Virginia Board of Workforce Development (the Board) to advise and oversee the development of a strategic workforce dashboard and tools that will provide information on issues such as state and regional labor market conditions, the relationship between the supply and demand for workers, workforce program outcomes, and projected employment growth or decline. The measure also transfers from the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) to the Board, with support from VEC, the responsibility to determine and publish a list of jobs, trades, and professions for which high demand for qualified workers exists or is projected."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1006"
citation: "Virginia HB 1006 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Labor and Employment", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports", "Unemployment Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy J. Byron"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a797eb70-1ba3-454d-b326-6f1fc9ad3301"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1006"
source_hash: "9eafd5f990f9ddd463300a5fee48f18ae9d91d10bbcb6b42b399ef87a857a3fd"
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 1006 (2018) — Labor market information; transfer of administration from Virginia Employment Commission.
Requires the Virginia Board of Workforce Development (the Board) to advise and oversee the development of a strategic workforce dashboard and tools that will provide information on issues such as state and regional labor market conditions, the relationship between the supply and demand for workers, workforce program outcomes, and projected employment growth or decline. The measure also transfers from the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) to the Board, with support from VEC, the responsibility to determine and publish a list of jobs, trades, and professions for which high demand for qualified workers exists or is projected.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1006ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1006ER)
2. **House: Committee substitute printed 18106106D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1006H1)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104651D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1006)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor with substitute — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **150** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Kathy J. Byron — primary (person)
- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18104651D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Referred from General Laws by voice vote
- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** Committee substitute agreed to 18106106D-H1
- **2018-02-02** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1006H1
- **2018-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-06** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 225 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a797eb70-1ba3-454d-b326-6f1fc9ad3301`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).