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Bill	Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; mentorship program.	Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; mentorship program. Directs the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to administer a mentorship pilot program under which established businesses or industry sector experts act as mentors to start-up women-owned and minority-owned businesses.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 815	Virginia HB 815 (2022)	bill		enacted	Luke E. Torian	3	27	8	2022-01-12	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/901eebe2-e521-437d-a51c-0bb4e6e9ad39	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB815	40f0db3d3f3b29c1b7bfa31ad2da229429b1b4c3ff703dd83cee0929fe7d71e3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 815 (2022) — Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; mentorship program.

Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity; mentorship program. Directs the Department of Small Business and Supplier Diversity to administer a mentorship pilot program under which established businesses or industry sector experts act as mentors to start-up women-owned and minority-owned businesses.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0302 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB815ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102887D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Luke E. Torian — primary (person)
• Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
• Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Michelle Lopes Maldonado — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102887D introduction
• 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2022-01-21 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2022-01-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB815)
• 2022-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-03 Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-03 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-04 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-02-09 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-09 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-11 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
• 2022-02-23 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-25 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-28 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-03 Enrolled
• 2022-03-03 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB815ER)
• 2022-03-04 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 302 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/901eebe2-e521-437d-a51c-0bb4e6e9ad39. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).