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Bill	Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund; created.	Virginia Tourism Authority; Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund. Creates the Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund to be administered by the Virginia Tourism Authority to support the local, regional, national, and international airports in Virginia by providing the means for attracting new passenger air service routes by advertising and promoting new air service routes that would commence in Virginia. The bill provides that expenditures must be consistent with the commercial air service plan adopted by the Virginia Aviation Board. The bill requires that a grant from the Fund shall not be awarded if it can be reasonably anticipated to result in the reduction of existing commercial air service at another airport located within the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 990.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1602	Virginia HB 1602 (2020)	bill		enacted	Terry L. Austin	6	47	9	2020-01-15	2020-04-10	openstates	ocd-bill/86a5b847-4512-4725-bcdb-88d8fed12add	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1602	1abf6613030a0a1abf709f3787d4434ca40463ac8513faf846e9deb98d5c2014	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1602 (2020) — Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund; created.

Virginia Tourism Authority; Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund. Creates the Governor's New Airline Service Incentive Fund to be administered by the Virginia Tourism Authority to support the local, regional, national, and international airports in Virginia by providing the means for attracting new passenger air service routes by advertising and promoting new air service routes that would commence in Virginia. The bill provides that expenditures must be consistent with the commercial air service plan adopted by the Virginia Aviation Board. The bill requires that a grant from the Fund shall not be awarded if it can be reasonably anticipated to result in the reduction of existing commercial air service at another airport located within the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to SB 990.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1119) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1602ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1602H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1602S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Impact statement from DPB (HB1602) (committee substitute) — source
6. Impact statement from DPB (HB1602H2) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 10-N) — 87–10 (pass) · lower
• Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 99-N) — 0–98 (fail) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (90-Y 8-N) — 89–8 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (20-Y 1-N) — 20–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Terry L. Austin — primary (person)
• C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph P. McNamara — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-15 Presented and ordered printed 20104632D introduction
• 2020-01-15 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-01-20 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2020-01-27 Impact statement from DPB (HB1602)
• 2020-02-05 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-02-05 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-05 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-05 Committee substitute printed 20107730D-H1 substitution
• 2020-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-07 Committee substitute agreed to 20107730D-H1
• 2020-02-07 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1602H1
• 2020-02-10 Read third time and passed House (90-Y 8-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-10 VOTE: Passage (90-Y 8-N)
• 2020-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-11 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB1602H1)
• 2020-02-19 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-19 Committee substitute printed 20108381D-S1 substitution
• 2020-02-20 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-21 Reading of substitute waived
• 2020-02-21 Committee substitute agreed to 20108381D-S1
• 2020-02-21 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1602S1
• 2020-02-21 Passed Senate with substitute (38-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB1602S1)
• 2020-02-25 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-25 Senate substitute rejected by House 20108381D-S1 (0-Y 99-N)
• 2020-02-25 VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 99-N)
• 2020-02-27 Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-27 Senate requested conference committee
• 2020-02-28 House acceded to request
• 2020-02-28 Conferees appointed by House
• 2020-03-02 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2020-03-05 Amended by conference committee
• 2020-03-05 Conference substitute printed 20109754D-H2
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by House (88-Y 10-N)
• 2020-03-07 VOTE: Adoption (88-Y 10-N)
• 2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-12 Impact statement from DPB (HB1602H2)
• 2020-03-18 Enrolled
• 2020-03-18 Signed by President
• 2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
• 2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB1602ER)
• 2020-04-10 Approved by Governor-Chapter 1119 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86a5b847-4512-4725-bcdb-88d8fed12add. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).