republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-1963.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Funding local health departments; cooperative local health budget, report."
description: "Cooperative local health budget; report.Provides that funding for local health departments shall consist of such state funds as may be allocated for the operation of the localhealth department together with local matching funds and estimatedself-generated local service revenues, the total amount of whichshall constitute the cooperative local health budget available toa local department of health, and that the amount of local matchingfunds for which a county or city is responsible shall be based onthe county's or city's revenue generation capacity factor, as definedin the bill; in no case, however, shall the amount of local matchingfunds required be greater than 45 percent or less than 18 percentof the total amount of the cooperative local health budget for thelocal health department that serves the county or city, after deductingestimated self-generated local service revenues. The bill directsthe Department of Health to biennially review the local matching fund amount for each county and city, determine whether such amount shouldbe revised as a result of changes to the county's or city's revenuegeneration capacity, and report the results of such review and anyrecommendations for changes to a county's or city's local matchingfund amount to the Governor and the General Assembly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1963"
citation: "Virginia HB 1963 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/498b82b6-d7f1-4ed5-ba72-9e2d07ae7a6d"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1963"
source_hash: "f04e4c85608ba6067a7ff14d7e53c080b732b6cd297cd2a60aa830a07ba63979"
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 1963 (2021) — Funding local health departments; cooperative local health budget, report.

Cooperative local health budget; report.Provides that funding for local health departments shall consist of such state funds as may be allocated for the operation of the localhealth department together with local matching funds and estimatedself-generated local service revenues, the total amount of whichshall constitute the cooperative local health budget available toa local department of health, and that the amount of local matchingfunds for which a county or city is responsible shall be based onthe county's or city's revenue generation capacity factor, as definedin the bill; in no case, however, shall the amount of local matchingfunds required be greater than 45 percent or less than 18 percentof the total amount of the cooperative local health budget for thelocal health department that serves the county or city, after deductingestimated self-generated local service revenues. The bill directsthe Department of Health to biennially review the local matching fund amount for each county and city, determine whether such amount shouldbe revised as a result of changes to the county's or city's revenuegeneration capacity, and report the results of such review and anyrecommendations for changes to a county's or city's local matchingfund amount to the Governor and the General Assembly.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0203** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0203)
2. **HB1963ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1963ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102417D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1963)

## Votes

- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (19-Y 1-N) — **19–1** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 2-N 1-A) — **12–2** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N) — **5–3** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (80-Y 19-N) — **79–19** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (33-Y 6-N) — **33–6** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (14-Y 8-N) — **14–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102417D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13** Impact statement from DPB (HB1963)
- **2021-01-19** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions (19-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-19** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- **2021-01-29** Reported from Appropriations (14-Y 8-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-02-03** Read third time and passed House (80-Y 19-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** VOTE: Passage (80-Y 19-N)
- **2021-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-02-04** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-12** Assigned Education sub: Health `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Reported from Education and Health (12-Y 2-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Passed Senate (33-Y 6-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled
- **2021-02-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB1963ER)
- **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
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 203 (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/498b82b6-d7f1-4ed5-ba72-9e2d07ae7a6d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).