republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2021/hb-2322.md

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Bill	Opioid Abatement Authority; established, Fund created, report, membership.	Opioid Abatement Authority; established, report. Establishes the Opioid Abatement Authority. The Authority, with the assistance of the Office of the Attorney General, would administer the Opioid Abatement Fund, which would receive moneys from settlements, judgments, verdicts, and other court orders relating to claims regarding the manufacturing, marketing, distribution, or sale of opioids and any other funds received on the fund's behalf that would be used to provide grants and loans to Virginia agencies and certain localities for the purpose of treating, preventing, or reducing opioid use disorder and the misuse of opioids or otherwise abating or remediating the opioid epidemic in the Commonwealth.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2021	HB 2322	Virginia HB 2322 (2021)	bill		enacted	Charniele L. Herring	6	52	13	2021-01-21	2021-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/b01b4e89-0e68-451e-82ac-71e7e7849266	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB2322	7a294022f2e15531236d8f07456b2147bd1ccbe26f52aeff1455ea438bbb29d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2322 (2021) — Opioid Abatement Authority; established, Fund created, report, membership.

Opioid Abatement Authority; established, report. Establishes the Opioid Abatement Authority. The Authority, with the assistance of the Office of the Attorney General, would administer the Opioid Abatement Fund, which would receive moneys from settlements, judgments, verdicts, and other court orders relating to claims regarding the manufacturing, marketing, distribution, or sale of opioids and any other funds received on the fund's behalf that would be used to provide grants and loans to Virginia agencies and certain localities for the purpose of treating, preventing, or reducing opioid use disorder and the misuse of opioids or otherwise abating or remediating the opioid epidemic in the Commonwealth.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0306 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 21103991D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Committee substitute printed 21104247D-H2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Committee substitute printed 21200424D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. HB2322ER (committee substitute) — source
6. Presented and ordered printed 21103485D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — 7–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 5-N) — 93–5 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute with amendment (37-Y 0-N 2-A) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute with amendment (36-Y 0-N 3-A) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (97-Y 3-N) — 96–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Charniele L. Herring — primary (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
• Nancy D. Guy — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-21 Presented and ordered printed 21103485D introduction
• 2021-01-21 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2021-01-27 Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process referral-committee
• 2021-01-28 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
• 2021-01-28 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2021-01-28 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-01-28 Reported from General Laws with substitute (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2021-01-28 Committee substitute printed 21103991D-H1 substitution
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-01-29 Assigned App. sub: Compensation & General Government referral-committee
• 2021-02-01 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2021-02-01 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-01 Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-01 Committee substitute printed 21104247D-H2 substitution
• 2021-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB2322)
• 2021-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB2322H1)
• 2021-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2021-02-03 Impact statement from DPB (HB2322H2)
• 2021-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2021-02-03 Committee on General Laws substitute rejected 21103991D-H1
• 2021-02-03 Committee on Appropriations substitute agreed to 21104247D-H2
• 2021-02-03 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2322H2
• 2021-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 3-N) passage, reading-3
• 2021-02-04 VOTE: Passage (97-Y 3-N)
• 2021-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2021-02-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2021-02-05 Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-17 Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-17 Committee substitute printed 21200424D-S1 substitution
• 2021-02-17 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2021-02-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB2322S1)
• 2021-02-22 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2021-02-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2021-02-25 Reading of substitute waived
• 2021-02-25 Committee substitute agreed to 21200424D-S1
• 2021-02-25 Reading of amendment waived
• 2021-02-25 Amendment by Senator Barker agreed to amendment-passage
• 2021-02-25 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment HB2322S1
• 2021-02-25 Passed Senate with substitute with amendment (37-Y 0-N 2-A) passage
• 2021-02-25 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2021-02-25 Passed Senate with substitute with amendment (36-Y 0-N 3-A) passage
• 2021-02-25 Placed on Calendar
• 2021-02-25 Senate substitute with amendment agreed to by House 21200424D-S1 (94-Y 5-N)
• 2021-02-25 VOTE: Adoption (94-Y 5-N)
• 2021-03-09 Enrolled
• 2021-03-09 Signed by President
• 2021-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB2322ER)
• 2021-03-11 Signed by Speaker
• 2021-03-15 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 15, 2021
• 2021-03-15 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
• 2021-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 306 (effective 7/1/21) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b01b4e89-0e68-451e-82ac-71e7e7849266. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).