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type: "Bill"
title: "Slaughter and meat-processing facilities; expanding facilities through strategic planning, etc."
description: "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 HB 830."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 726"
citation: "Virginia SB 726 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2f2c4c6-5b52-4f29-af45-d354af216c4f"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB726"
source_hash: "46516eb5e909cd31da0ec16587b5bb050d897f3718eab6d507ef34090e9061f8"
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 SB 726 (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 HB 830.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0311** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0311)
2. **Presented and ordered printed 22103557D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB726)
3. **SB726ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB726ER)
## Votes
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
- T. Travis Hackworth — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-21** Presented and ordered printed 22103557D `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Impact statement from DPB (SB726)
- **2022-02-01** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **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`
- **2022-02-23** Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-25** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-28** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Enrolled
- **2022-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-03** Signed by President
- **2022-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (SB726ER)
- **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 311 (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/f2f2c4c6-5b52-4f29-af45-d354af216c4f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).