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| Bill | Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund; created. | Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund. Creates a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund that shall be used solely for the purposes of assisting or reimbursing volunteer fire departments or volunteer fire companies with the costs of training and certifying volunteer firefighters. The bill also requires the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to study the accessibility and availability of training programs with a specific focus on providing training programs to volunteer fire departments, volunteer fire companies, and volunteer firefighters in a cost-efficient and effective manner. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2022 | HB 746 | Virginia HB 746 (2022) |
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Virginia HB 746 (2022) — Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund; created.
Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund. Creates a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Volunteer Fire Department Training Fund that shall be used solely for the purposes of assisting or reimbursing volunteer fire departments or volunteer fire companies with the costs of training and certifying volunteer firefighters. The bill also requires the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to establish a work group to study the accessibility and availability of training programs with a specific focus on providing training programs to volunteer fire departments, volunteer fire companies, and volunteer firefighters in a cost-efficient and effective manner.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- CHAP0765 (committee substitute) — source
- HB746ER (committee substitute) — source
- HB746ER2 (committee substitute) — source
- Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101260D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
- Referred from General Laws — 0–0 (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Robert B. Bell — primary (person)
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101260D
introduction - 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on General Laws
referral-committee - 2022-01-25 Referred from General Laws
- 2022-01-25 Referred to Committee on Public Safety
referral-committee - 2022-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB746)
- 2022-02-08 Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #2
referral-committee - 2022-02-10 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-11 Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-02-13 Read first time
reading-1 - 2022-02-14 Read second time and engrossed
reading-2 - 2022-02-15 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2022-02-15 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 2022-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2022-02-16 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
referral-committee - 2022-03-02 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-02 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
referral-committee - 2022-03-03 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
committee-passage - 2022-03-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- 2022-03-08 Read third time
reading-3 - 2022-03-08 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
passage - 2022-03-10 Enrolled
- 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
- 2022-03-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB746ER)
- 2022-03-11 Signed by President
- 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- 2022-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by House
- 2022-04-27 Placed on Calendar
- 2022-04-27 House concurred in Governor's recommendation BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 2022-04-27 VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
- 2022-04-27 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- 2022-04-27 Governor's recommendation adopted
- 2022-04-27 Reenrolled
- 2022-04-27 Reenrolled bill text (HB746ER2)
- 2022-04-27 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- 2022-04-27 Signed by President as reenrolled
- 2022-04-27 Enacted, Chapter 765 (effective 7/1/22)
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2cf8c86e-9d10-4870-a241-8f099cd78b18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).