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type: "Bill"
title: "Small Business and Supplier Diversity, Department of; mentorship program."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 815"
citation: "Virginia HB 815 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Luke E. Torian"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/901eebe2-e521-437d-a51c-0bb4e6e9ad39"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB815"
source_hash: "40f0db3d3f3b29c1b7bfa31ad2da229429b1b4c3ff703dd83cee0929fe7d71e3"
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 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](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0302)
2. **HB815ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB815ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102887D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB815)
## Votes
- Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/901eebe2-e521-437d-a51c-0bb4e6e9ad39`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).