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type: "Bill"
title: "Workforce development; expands type of data sharing."
description: "Workforce development; data sharing. Expands the type of workforce development data that state agencies may share with the Virginia Workforce System to support workforce program evaluation and policy analysis. The bill removes the requirement that all personal identifying information be removed before being shared among other state agencies and with the Workforce Development System and instead requires the identifying attribute information necessary to match entities across programs, support the coordination of services, and evaluate outcomes to be shared among agencies that enter into the memorandum of understanding supporting the Virginia Workforce Data Trust."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1876"
citation: "Virginia HB 1876 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Suhas Subramanyam"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2021-03-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77ba0329-8139-42d4-880f-b24bdb187f9e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1876"
source_hash: "212f2a8cf1858dc8c0e16ce8679254b6f771f3c67bf1b7841eae41a5265a3331"
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 1876 (2021) — Workforce development; expands type of data sharing.
Workforce development; data sharing. Expands the type of workforce development data that state agencies may share with the Virginia Workforce System to support workforce program evaluation and policy analysis. The bill removes the requirement that all personal identifying information be removed before being shared among other state agencies and with the Workforce Development System and instead requires the identifying attribute information necessary to match entities across programs, support the coordination of services, and evaluate outcomes to be shared among agencies that enter into the memorandum of understanding supporting the Virginia Workforce Data Trust.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0438** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0438)
2. **Committee substitute printed 21103390D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1876H1)
3. **HB1876ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1876ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102193D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1876)
## Votes
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N) — **940** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **320** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N) — **71** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Suhas Subramanyam — primary (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102193D `introduction`
- **2021-01-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-12** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (7-Y 1-N)
- **2021-01-26** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-26** Reported from General Laws with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-26** Committee substitute printed 21103390D-H1 `substitution`
- **2021-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-01-28** Committee substitute agreed to 21103390D-H1
- **2021-01-28** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1876H1
- **2021-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-29** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-01** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB1876H1)
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-10** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-02-17** Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Reading of amendment waived
- **2021-02-22** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2021-02-22** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2021-02-22** Passed Senate with amendment (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-23** Senate amendment agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-23** VOTE: Adoption (95-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Signed by President
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 2021
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB1876ER)
- **2021-03-30** Approved by Governor-Chapter 438 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77ba0329-8139-42d4-880f-b24bdb187f9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).