republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-237.md

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Bill	Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board; increases membership.	Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board. Modifies aspects of the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board by adding a fourth Secretary to the Board's membership, to be appointed by the Governor, and providing that the Secretary of Labor may be one of the Secretaries appointed to the Board. The bill also reduces the amount of matching funds required for any grant awarded from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund by requiring such funds to be equal to at least half of the grant awarded until July 1, 2028.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 237	Virginia HB 237 (2024)	bill		enacted	Terry L. Austin	4	36	9	2024-01-04	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/b9cb9ab2-5d0b-4946-a5dc-8b2757ffa47c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB237	8db538182ecd531a8e90f2f02f2bf9ed8b9dbc48106b0efe57d0789188adcb5c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 237 (2024) — Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board; increases membership.

Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board. Modifies aspects of the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board by adding a fourth Secretary to the Board's membership, to be appointed by the Governor, and providing that the Secretary of Labor may be one of the Secretaries appointed to the Board. The bill also reduces the amount of matching funds required for any grant awarded from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund by requiring such funds to be equal to at least half of the grant awarded until July 1, 2028.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0276 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 24108091D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB237ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102385D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (92-Y 0-N) — 91–0 (pass) · lower
• Referred from Labor and Commerce — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Terry L. Austin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102385D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-04 Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Referred from Labor and Commerce referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-26 Impact statement from DPB (HB237)
• 2024-01-29 Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-01 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (92-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-02 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (92-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-05 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-21 Committee substitute printed 24108091D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB237S1)
• 2024-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Reading of substitute waived
• 2024-02-23 Committee substitute agreed to 24108091D-S1 substitution
• 2024-02-23 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB237S1 substitution
• 2024-02-23 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-27 Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108091D-S1 (96-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2024-02-27 VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB237ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB237ER)
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 276 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0276)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b9cb9ab2-5d0b-4946-a5dc-8b2757ffa47c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).