republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-2204.md

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Bill	Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program; created and established, report.	Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fundand Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled,Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial assistance from the Fund to certain low-income and middle-income Virginia students who are enrolled in an educational program at an associate-degree-granting public institution of higher educationthat leads to an occupation in a certain high-demand field. The billcontains provisions for student eligibility, financial assistanceaward amounts, and data reporting.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 2204	Virginia HB 2204 (2021)	bill		enacted	Eileen Filler-Corn	3	26	8	2021-01-13	2021-03-29	openstates	ocd-bill/a0917793-8e08-4410-9ec5-9305a70d3911	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2204	67abdb50c7b9988da189f3bd6c893d627c2e7fab4f5728853280ff25fbf4698c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2204 (2021) — Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program; created and established, report.

Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fundand Program established. Establishes the Get Skilled,Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and requires the Virginia Community College System to establish the G3 Program for the purpose of providing financial assistance from the Fund to certain low-income and middle-income Virginia students who are enrolled in an educational program at an associate-degree-granting public institution of higher educationthat leads to an occupation in a certain high-demand field. The billcontains provisions for student eligibility, financial assistanceaward amounts, and data reporting.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0397 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB2204ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102671D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (93-Y 7-N) — 92–7 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — 21–1 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) — 37–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Eileen Filler-Corn — primary (person)
• Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
• Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
• Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Bulova — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
• Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
• Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
• Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
• Martha M. Mugler — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-13 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102671D introduction
• 2021-01-13 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2021-01-15 Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed referral-committee
• 2021-01-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2021-01-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB2204)
• 2021-01-25 Reported from Education (21-Y 1-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 (93-Y 7-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-01-28 VOTE: Passage (93-Y 7-N)
• 2021-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-01-29 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 (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-11 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-02-16 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-17 Passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) passage
• 2021-02-22 Enrolled
• 2021-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB2204ER)
• 2021-02-22 Signed by President
• 2021-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-02-25 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
• 2021-02-25 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-29 Approved by Governor-Chapter 397 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0917793-8e08-4410-9ec5-9305a70d3911. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).