republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-140.md

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Bill	Historical African American cemeteries; changes date of establishment for qualification of funds.	Historical African American cemeteries. Changes the date of establishment that qualifies historical African American cemeteries for appropriated funds to care for such cemeteries from prior to January 1, 1900, to prior to January 1, 1948, and provides that the total number of graves in a qualifying cemetery shall be the number of markers of African Americans who were interred in such cemetery prior to January 1, 1948. Under current law, the total number of graves is the number of markers of African Americans who lived at any time between January 1, 1800, and January 1, 1900. This bill is identical to SB 477.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 140	Virginia HB 140 (2022)	bill		enacted	Delores L. McQuinn	5	39	8	2022-01-07	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/4259eec0-f6ae-4eae-8eec-0b6fcc44ec5c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB140	560ed4e02eba87d828f7a52cbd60ccefda2ea06f3f9352725cb58dbb5f4382d1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 140 (2022) — Historical African American cemeteries; changes date of establishment for qualification of funds.

Historical African American cemeteries. Changes the date of establishment that qualifies historical African American cemeteries for appropriated funds to care for such cemeteries from prior to January 1, 1900, to prior to January 1, 1948, and provides that the total number of graves in a qualifying cemetery shall be the number of markers of African Americans who were interred in such cemetery prior to January 1, 1948. Under current law, the total number of graves is the number of markers of African Americans who lived at any time between January 1, 1800, and January 1, 1900. This bill is identical to SB 477.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0450 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22106690D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB140ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101675D (committee substitute) — source
5. Printed as engrossed 22101675D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Delores L. McQuinn — primary (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
• David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
• Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
• Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101675D introduction
• 2022-01-07 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (HB140)
• 2022-01-24 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-26 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (6-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-02 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-07 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-07 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-02-07 Engrossed by House as amended HB140E
• 2022-02-07 Printed as engrossed 22101675D-E
• 2022-02-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB140E)
• 2022-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-08 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2022-02-08 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-09 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2022-02-16 Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-16 Committee substitute printed 22106690D-S1 substitution
• 2022-02-17 Impact statement from DPB (HB140S1)
• 2022-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-21 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-21 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-02-21 Committee substitute agreed to 22106690D-S1
• 2022-02-21 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB140S1
• 2022-02-21 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-23 Passed by for the day
• 2022-02-24 Senate substitute agreed to by House 22106690D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-24 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-28 Enrolled
• 2022-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB140ER)
• 2022-02-28 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-02-28 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 450 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4259eec0-f6ae-4eae-8eec-0b6fcc44ec5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).