republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2347.md

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Bill	Small Business Investment Grant Fund; recapture of awards.	Provides that if an eligible investor is awarded a grant from the Small Business Investment Grant Fund and the small business in which the investment was made (i) relocates outside of the Commonwealth within two years of the award of the grant or (ii) closes within two years of the award of the grant as a result of a criminal conviction on the part of any officer, director, manager, or general partner of such business relating to his involvement with the business, such investor shall forfeit the grant and refund such moneys to the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority. The bill also advances the starting date for an eligible investor to receive a grant from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2019, and advances the end date for receiving such a grant from January 1, 2019, to January 1, 2022.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2347	Virginia HB 2347 (2019)	bill	Administration of Government Trade and Commerce	enacted	Charniele L. Herring	6	18	6	2019-01-08	2019-02-19	openstates	ocd-bill/7ace70af-f5d3-4c3b-8020-ad9a7b0c7900	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2347	c542144e3232b2d8ad454a4f03f8d175e0c1c2c54cfd9a4e3f5bc6d822c0123a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2347 (2019) — Small Business Investment Grant Fund; recapture of awards.

Provides that if an eligible investor is awarded a grant from the Small Business Investment Grant Fund and the small business in which the investment was made (i) relocates outside of the Commonwealth within two years of the award of the grant or (ii) closes within two years of the award of the grant as a result of a criminal conviction on the part of any officer, director, manager, or general partner of such business relating to his involvement with the business, such investor shall forfeit the grant and refund such moneys to the Virginia Small Business Financing Authority. The bill also advances the starting date for an eligible investor to receive a grant from July 1, 2016, to July 1, 2019, and advances the end date for receiving such a grant from January 1, 2019, to January 1, 2022.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0035) (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 (HB2347ER) (committee substitute) — source
5. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102988D (committee substitute) — source
6. House: Printed as engrossed 19102988D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with amendments — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Charniele L. Herring — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102988D introduction
• 2019-01-08 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-01-14 Assigned App. sub: Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources & Technology referral-committee
• 2019-01-23 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-01-24 Read second time reading-2
• 2019-01-24 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2019-01-24 Engrossed by House as amended HB2347E
• 2019-01-24 Printed as engrossed 19102988D-E
• 2019-01-25 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-01-28 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
• 2019-02-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-11 Enrolled
• 2019-02-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-11 Signed by President
• 2019-02-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 12, 2019
• 2019-02-12 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 19, 2019
• 2019-02-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 35 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7ace70af-f5d3-4c3b-8020-ad9a7b0c7900. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).