republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-830.md

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Bill	Slaughter and meat-processing facilities; expanding facilities through strategic planning, etc.	Slaughter and meat-processing facilities. Establishes that it is the policy of the General Assembly to encourage, expand, and develop slaughter and meat-processing facilities through strategic planning and financial incentive programs. The bill directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to develop a five-year strategic plan to increase total combined throughput capacity of slaughter and meat-processing facilities. This bill is identical to SB 726.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 830	Virginia HB 830 (2022)	bill		enacted	Tony O. Wilt	3	26	7	2022-01-12	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/3b366343-300c-45a0-830e-d8359ac92c2d	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB830	f16b8395a8b7b0c3089bce65802046bbf7dafff1aa9ea2d89a6a4dc4f9f5a286	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 830 (2022) — Slaughter and meat-processing facilities; expanding facilities through strategic planning, etc.

Slaughter and meat-processing facilities. Establishes that it is the policy of the General Assembly to encourage, expand, and develop slaughter and meat-processing facilities through strategic planning and financial incentive programs. The bill directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to develop a five-year strategic plan to increase total combined throughput capacity of slaughter and meat-processing facilities. This bill is identical to SB 726.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0310 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB830ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101099D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Tony O. Wilt — primary (person)
• Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101099D introduction
• 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 Impact statement from DPB (HB830)
• 2022-01-24 Assigned ACNR sub: Agriculture referral-committee
• 2022-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-02 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-08 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2022-02-08 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage #2 (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-09 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-03-01 Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-04 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-09 Enrolled
• 2022-03-09 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (HB830ER)
• 2022-03-10 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 Approved by Governor-Chapter 310 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3b366343-300c-45a0-830e-d8359ac92c2d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).