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Bill Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund; created. Creates the Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund. A qualified e-commerce company that makes a capital investment of at least $2 billion in a major headquarters facility in Arlington County and that creates at least 25,000 new full-time jobs with an average annual wage of $150,000 will be eligible for up to $550 million in grants from the Fund. A qualified company may also be eligible for an additional $200 million in grants for creating an additional 12,850 new full-time jobs. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2019 SB 1255 Virginia SB 1255 (2019)
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Trade and Commerce
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Frank M. Ruff, Jr.
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Virginia SB 1255 (2019) — Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund; created.

Creates the Major Headquarters Workforce Grant Fund. A qualified e-commerce company that makes a capital investment of at least $2 billion in a major headquarters facility in Arlington County and that creates at least 25,000 new full-time jobs with an average annual wage of $150,000 will be eligible for up to $550 million in grants from the Fund. A qualified company may also be eligible for an additional $200 million in grants for creating an additional 12,850 new full-time jobs. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0001) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1255ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102500D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passed House — 8316 (pass) · lower
  • Reported from Finance — 140 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Appropriations — 190 (pass) · lower
  • Read third time and passed Senate — 355 (pass) · upper
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — primary (person)
  • Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Frank W. Wagner — cosponsor (person)
  • Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
  • John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
  • Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
  • R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
  • Richard L. Saslaw — cosponsor (person)
  • Rosalyn R. Dance — cosponsor (person)
  • Thomas K. Norment, Jr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2019-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19102500D introduction
  • 2019-01-05 Referred to Committee on Finance referral-committee
  • 2019-01-05 Introduced bill reprinted 19102500D
  • 2019-01-18 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2019-01-23 Placed on Calendar
  • 2019-01-23 Read first time reading-1
  • 2019-01-23 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
  • 2019-01-25 Read second time reading-2
  • 2019-01-28 Read third time reading-3
  • 2019-01-28 Passed House (83-Y 16-N) passage
  • 2019-01-29 Enrolled
  • 2019-01-29 Signed by Speaker
  • 2019-01-29 Signed by President
  • 2019-01-30 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on January 30, 2019
  • 2019-01-30 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 6, 2019
  • 2019-02-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d7f2a048-e656-44da-be1d-a21bba6a4dbf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).