republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-477.md

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Bill	Historical African American cemeteries; changes date of establishment for qualification of funds.	Historical African American cemeteries. Changes the date of establishment that qualifies historical African American cemeteries for appropriated funds to care for such cemeteries from prior to January 1, 1900, to prior to January 1, 1948, and provides that the total number of graves in a qualifying cemetery shall be the number of markers of African Americans who were interred in such cemetery prior to January 1, 1948. Under current law, the total number of graves is the number of markers of African Americans who lived at any time between January 1, 1800, and January 1, 1900. This bill is identical to HB 140.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 477	Virginia SB 477 (2022)	bill		enacted	Jennifer L. McClellan	4	31	7	2022-01-11	2022-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/fad76ce9-af1c-4d61-99d0-f65c8c8d8a9f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB477	4d5a7c5ebd17e585f23cc322964a7022f98921036ada744fab79b767043041af	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 477 (2022) — Historical African American cemeteries; changes date of establishment for qualification of funds.

Historical African American cemeteries. Changes the date of establishment that qualifies historical African American cemeteries for appropriated funds to care for such cemeteries from prior to January 1, 1900, to prior to January 1, 1948, and provides that the total number of graves in a qualifying cemetery shall be the number of markers of African Americans who were interred in such cemetery prior to January 1, 1948. Under current law, the total number of graves is the number of markers of African Americans who lived at any time between January 1, 1800, and January 1, 1900. This bill is identical to HB 140.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0187 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101065D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22101065D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB477ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101065D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB477)
• 2022-02-02 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-02 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-02 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-09 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-10 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-11 Printed as engrossed 22101065D-E
• 2022-02-11 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-11 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-02-11 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-02-11 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB477E
• 2022-02-11 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-11 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-14 Impact statement from DPB (SB477E)
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-03-02 Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-04 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-07 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-07 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Enrolled
• 2022-03-10 Impact statement from DPB (SB477ER)
• 2022-03-10 Signed by President
• 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
• 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
• 2022-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 187 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fad76ce9-af1c-4d61-99d0-f65c8c8d8a9f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).