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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Virginia Jobs Investment Program and Fund; minimum wage requirements."
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description: "Virginia Jobs Investment Program and Fund; minimumwage requirements. Adjusts the minimum entry-level wage rate per hour a company is required to pay in order to be eligible forassistance under the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from at least1.35 times the federal minimum wage to 1.2 times the federal minimumwage or the Virginia minimum wage, whichever is higher."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2021"
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identifier: "HB 1967"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1967 (2021)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 23
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2021-01-11"
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last_action: "2021-02-25"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cbed7a28-cdcf-41a7-95be-d3cdd868346a"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1967"
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source_hash: "33288ca6636bd6d2eaabe234cb1cebdd6eedf818ca62bc188a7d1a50c7eb2440"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1967 (2021) — Virginia Jobs Investment Program and Fund; minimum wage requirements.
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Virginia Jobs Investment Program and Fund; minimumwage requirements. Adjusts the minimum entry-level wage rate per hour a company is required to pay in order to be eligible forassistance under the Virginia Jobs Investment Program from at least1.35 times the federal minimum wage to 1.2 times the federal minimumwage or the Virginia minimum wage, whichever is higher.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **CHAP0016** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0016)
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2. **HB1967ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1967ER)
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3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102094D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1967)
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## Votes
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- Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- Reported from General Laws (17-Y 3-N) — **17–3** (pass) · lower
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- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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- VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N) — **78–20** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
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- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
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- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
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- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
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- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102094D `introduction`
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- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
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- **2021-01-17** Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process `referral-committee`
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- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB1967)
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- **2021-01-19** Reported from General Laws (17-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2021-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2021-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2021-01-22** Read third time and passed House (79-Y 20-N) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2021-01-22** VOTE: Passage (79-Y 20-N)
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- **2021-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
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- **2021-01-25** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
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- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
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- **2021-02-10** Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2021-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
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- **2021-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2021-02-15** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
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- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
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- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
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- **2021-02-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB1967ER)
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- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
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- **2021-02-19** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 19, 2021
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- **2021-02-19** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., February 26, 2021
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- **2021-02-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 16 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cbed7a28-cdcf-41a7-95be-d3cdd868346a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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