republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-323.md

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Bill	Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program; increases grant for certain projects.	Local Food and Farming Infrastructure GrantProgram. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the amount of a grantthat may be made to a political subdivision for projects that supportlocal food production and sustainable agriculture.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 323	Virginia HB 323 (2022)	bill		enacted	Sam Rasoul	3	23	7	2022-01-11	2022-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/e869fc51-8690-4483-9ef4-971fe41ad99a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB323	0d70e511a8c09dc7cb278b7eb1b3691b824cb1dbd790f3f0a31a61decd6b00c9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 323 (2022) — Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program; increases grant for certain projects.

Local Food and Farming Infrastructure GrantProgram. Increases from $25,000 to $50,000 the amount of a grantthat may be made to a political subdivision for projects that supportlocal food production and sustainable agriculture.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0287 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB323ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102179D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Sam Rasoul — primary (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• Clinton L. Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Don L. Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker — cosponsor (person)
• G. "John" Avoli — cosponsor (person)
• Irene Shin — cosponsor (person)
• Jackie H. Glass — cosponsor (person)
• Jason S. Ballard — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey L. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• John S. Edwards — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph D. Morrissey — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)
• Nadarius E. Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
• Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
• Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102179D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB323)
• 2022-01-26 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-02 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-25 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-25 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-25 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-01 Enrolled
• 2022-03-01 Impact statement from DPB (HB323ER)
• 2022-03-01 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-02 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
• 2022-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 287 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e869fc51-8690-4483-9ef4-971fe41ad99a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).