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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Initiative for Education and Work (VIEW); participants, modifies Full Employment Program."
description: "Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; Full Employment Program. Modifies the Full Employment Program (FEP) for Virginia Initiative for Education and Work participants by (i) allowing FEP participants to continue receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); (ii) disregarding wages received through FEP for purposes of calculating TANF; (iii) removing the requirement that a person be unable to find unsubsidized employment in order to participate in FEP; and (iv) allowing employers participating in FEP to receive a subsidy of up to $1,000 per month for each FEP employee for a period not to exceed six months."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2035"
citation: "Virginia HB 2035 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy K.L. Tran"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2021-01-12"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff652394-5e38-4761-98de-062f2e45dbfc"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2035"
source_hash: "35884959faa99dddbf79b753d810dee5bd84b0b8901c7aa9d0ad9930660f168b"
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 2035 (2021) — Virginia Initiative for Education and Work (VIEW); participants, modifies Full Employment Program.
Virginia Initiative for Education and Work; Full Employment Program. Modifies the Full Employment Program (FEP) for Virginia Initiative for Education and Work participants by (i) allowing FEP participants to continue receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); (ii) disregarding wages received through FEP for purposes of calculating TANF; (iii) removing the requirement that a person be unable to find unsubsidized employment in order to participate in FEP; and (iv) allowing employers participating in FEP to receive a subsidy of up to $1,000 per month for each FEP employee for a period not to exceed six months.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0209** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0209)
2. **HB2035ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2035ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101698D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2035)
4. **Printed as engrossed 21101698D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2035E)
## Votes
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 0-N) — **50** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 1-N 1-A) — **121** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kathy K.L. Tran — primary (person)
- Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101698D `introduction`
- **2021-01-12** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-20** Impact statement from DPB (HB2035)
- **2021-01-23** Assigned HWI sub: Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-27** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2021-01-27** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-28** Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-28** Assigned App. sub: Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-29** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-02** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2021-02-02** Engrossed by House as amended HB2035E
- **2021-02-02** Printed as engrossed 21101698D-E
- **2021-02-03** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-03** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N 1-A)
- **2021-02-03** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2021-02-03** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-03** VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB2035E)
- **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)
- **2021-02-11** Reported from Education and Health (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11** Rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-19** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services (12-Y 1-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-23** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-26** Enrolled
- **2021-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB2035ER)
- **2021-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-27** Signed by President
- **2021-03-01** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 1, 20201
- **2021-03-01** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 209 (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/ff652394-5e38-4761-98de-062f2e45dbfc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).