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type: "Bill"
title: "Local Food and Farming Infrastructure Grant Program; increases grant for certain projects."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 323"
citation: "Virginia HB 323 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sam Rasoul"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e869fc51-8690-4483-9ef4-971fe41ad99a"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB323"
source_hash: "0d70e511a8c09dc7cb278b7eb1b3691b824cb1dbd790f3f0a31a61decd6b00c9"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0287)
2. **HB323ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB323ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102179D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB323)
## Votes
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e869fc51-8690-4483-9ef4-971fe41ad99a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).