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type: "Bill"
title: "Get Skilled, Get a Job, Give Back (G3) Fund and Program; created and established, report."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2204"
citation: "Virginia HB 2204 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eileen Filler-Corn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-13"
last_action: "2021-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0917793-8e08-4410-9ec5-9305a70d3911"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2204"
source_hash: "67abdb50c7b9988da189f3bd6c893d627c2e7fab4f5728853280ff25fbf4698c"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0397)
2. **HB2204ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2204ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102671D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB2204)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Education and Health (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Education and Health (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (93-Y 7-N) — **927** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Education (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) — **372** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0917793-8e08-4410-9ec5-9305a70d3911`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).