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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Historical African American cemeteries; adds a cemetery in City of Suffolk.	Adds Oak Lawn Cemetery in Suffolk, with 468 eligible graves, to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African American cemeteries and graves.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2311	Virginia HB 2311 (2019)	bill	Conservation Counties Cities and Towns Ethnic Groups Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries	enacted	C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr.	6	21	8	2019-01-08	2019-03-08	openstates	ocd-bill/b70c35a6-b38e-4a95-b23a-ae66f1fadd25	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2311	6667d2562e1eb2eb7a8836ce0a24cd03b09d914b22f967b94a973cf639086781	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2311 (2019) — Historical African American cemeteries; adds a cemetery in City of Suffolk.

Adds Oak Lawn Cemetery in Suffolk, with 468 eligible graves, to the list of cemeteries for which qualified organizations may receive funds from the Department of Historic Resources for the care of historical African American cemeteries and graves.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0251) (committee substitute) — source
2. House amendments adopted (committee substitute) — source
3. House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2311ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103123D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19103123D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)
• Emily M. Brewer — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103123D introduction
• 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2019-01-16 Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2019-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-02-01 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2019-02-01 Engrossed by House as amended HB2311E
• 2019-02-01 Printed as engrossed 19103123D-E
• 2019-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2019-02-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2019-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2019-02-11 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-15 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-20 Enrolled
• 2019-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-20 Signed by President
• 2019-02-27 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
• 2019-02-27 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 251 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b70c35a6-b38e-4a95-b23a-ae66f1fadd25. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).