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type: "Bill"
title: "Technology Development Grant Fund; created."
description: "Technology Development Grant Fund created.Creates the Technology Development Grant Fund to make grant paymentsto a qualified technology company that makes a capital investmentof at least $64 million at a facility in Fairfax County and createsat least 1,500 new full-time jobs at the facility. A qualified technologycompany would be eligible for an aggregate of $22.5 million in grantspaid over four years if it meets performance parameters and complieswith the terms of a memorandum of understanding agreed upon by thecompany, the Commonwealth, and the Virginia Economic DevelopmentPartnership Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 1156"
citation: "Virginia SB 1156 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janet D. Howell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ddb43ace-3a4f-47a3-a4d4-728c55c42e9b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1156"
source_hash: "b5e6a17a25c9ff8b43e4c3b7a07a9d1018bdcea6ca691fce19492b14620dc9b4"
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 SB 1156 (2021) — Technology Development Grant Fund; created.
Technology Development Grant Fund created.Creates the Technology Development Grant Fund to make grant paymentsto a qualified technology company that makes a capital investmentof at least $64 million at a facility in Fairfax County and createsat least 1,500 new full-time jobs at the facility. A qualified technologycompany would be eligible for an aggregate of $22.5 million in grantspaid over four years if it meets performance parameters and complieswith the terms of a memorandum of understanding agreed upon by thecompany, the Commonwealth, and the Virginia Economic DevelopmentPartnership Authority.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0271** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0271)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102102D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1156)
3. **SB1156ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1156ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **370** (pass) · upper
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations — **00** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (90-Y 10-N) — **8910** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Janet D. Howell — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102102D `introduction`
- **2021-01-07** Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB1156)
- **2021-01-19** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-21** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-22** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-07** Continued to Special Session 1 in Appropriations
- **2021-02-10** Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-11** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-12** Passed House (90-Y 10-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-12** VOTE: Passage (90-Y 10-N)
- **2021-02-17** Enrolled
- **2021-02-17** Signed by President
- **2021-02-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB1156ER)
- **2021-02-18** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 22, 2021
- **2021-02-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 271 (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/ddb43ace-3a4f-47a3-a4d4-728c55c42e9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).