republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-2068.md

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Bill	Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program; established.	Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program. Establishes the Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program and authorizes the Governor to award grants to political subdivisions from the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund as part of the Program. Such grants, in amounts up to $25,000, shall be awarded on a competitive basis to support infrastructure development projects that support local food production and sustainable farming. The bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry to develop guidelines for the Program that favor projects that establish or maintain farmers markets; businesses or organizations that manage the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of food products primarily from local and regional producers; and primarily locally owned processing facilities.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 2068	Virginia HB 2068 (2021)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	4	34	9	2021-01-12	2021-03-18	openstates	ocd-bill/50f43588-a6b1-489c-9c75-f5ae697bca3d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2068	b6bdf2c62c7a8a7df0e29a268e08fb8b0e14dc849388ae4c3ebcb3307f809054	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2068 (2021) — Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program; established.

Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program. Establishes the Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program and authorizes the Governor to award grants to political subdivisions from the Governor's Agriculture and Forestry Industries Development Fund as part of the Program. Such grants, in amounts up to $25,000, shall be awarded on a competitive basis to support infrastructure development projects that support local food production and sustainable farming. The bill directs the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry to develop guidelines for the Program that favor projects that establish or maintain farmers markets; businesses or organizations that manage the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of food products primarily from local and regional producers; and primarily locally owned processing facilities.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0185 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21200188D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB2068ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102653D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (19-Y 0-N) — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Carrie E. Coyner — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
• Frank M. Ruff, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102653D introduction
• 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-01-15 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
• 2021-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-20 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2021-01-20 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-20 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB2068)
• 2021-01-20 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-25 Reported from Appropriations (19-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-26 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-01-27 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2021-01-28 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-28 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-01-29 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (14-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-16 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-16 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources with substitite (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-16 Committee substitute printed 21200188D-S1 substitution
• 2021-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-18 Impact statement from DPB (HB2068S1)
• 2021-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-19 Reading of substitute waived
• 2021-02-19 Committee substitute rejected 21200188D-S1
• 2021-02-19 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2021-02-24 Enrolled
• 2021-02-24 Signed by President
• 2021-02-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB2068ER)
• 2021-02-25 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
• 2021-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-18 Approved by Governor-Chapter 185 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/50f43588-a6b1-489c-9c75-f5ae697bca3d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).