republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/sb-156.md

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Bill	Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund; established.	Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund. Creates the Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund to make grant payments to an eligible financial services company that makes a capital investment of at least $87 million at a facility in Roanoke County and creates at least 1,100 new full-time jobs at the facility. The eligible financial services company would be eligible for an aggregate of $15 million in grants paid out over a 10-year period if it meets such performance parameters. This bill is identical to HB 468.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	SB 156	Virginia SB 156 (2024)	bill		enacted	Christopher T. Head	3	24	5	2024-01-05	2024-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/4e2e6413-240a-44dd-9bfb-bc7ca61083e5	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB156	be35d665e35cb80f515668d19165627ea16d3216b92136678e80dde58acdb542	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 156 (2024) — Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund; established.

Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund. Creates the Financial Services Expansion Grant Fund to make grant payments to an eligible financial services company that makes a capital investment of at least $87 million at a facility in Roanoke County and creates at least 1,100 new full-time jobs at the facility. The eligible financial services company would be eligible for an aggregate of $15 million in grants paid out over a 10-year period if it meets such performance parameters. This bill is identical to HB 468.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0092 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102880D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB156ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Passage (91-Y 4-N) — 90–4 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Christopher T. Head — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-05 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102880D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-05 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Impact statement from DPB (SB156)
• 2024-01-24 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-25 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-01-26 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-01-29 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-13 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2024-02-21 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-23 Read second time reading-2
• 2024-02-26 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed House (91-Y 4-N) passage
• 2024-02-26 VOTE: Passage (91-Y 4-N) passage
• 2024-02-29 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-29 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB156ER) passage
• 2024-02-29 Impact statement from DPB (SB156ER)
• 2024-02-29 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-03 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 92 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-03-14 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0092)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e2e6413-240a-44dd-9bfb-bc7ca61083e5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).