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Bill	Virginia Investment Performance Grants; awarding of Grants.	Virginia Investment Performance Grants. Authorizes Virginia Investment Performance Grants to be awarded under more lenient requirements if the recipient is located in a locality with an unemployment rate and poverty rate that exceeds the state average. Specifically, the bill would authorize payment of such grants if the average wage paid by the eligible manufacturer or research and development service, excluding fringe benefits, is no less than 85 percent of the prevailing average wage. Grants may be paid for projects in such localities that pay less than 85 percent of the prevailing average wage, upon a written finding by the Governor that the economic circumstances in the area are sufficiently distressed such that assistance to the locality to attract the project is justified. However, the minimum private investment and number of new jobs required to be created are still a condition of eligibility. This bill is identical to SB 1231.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2179	Virginia HB 2179 (2025)	bill		enacted	Nadarius E. Clark	6	36	7	2025-01-07	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/74f07800-cc59-4eb1-8bea-9b2b502808bb	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2179	576573b7cf7344bd027d268df47865c539189520871a1b2ec8a4a51010ccdfec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2179 (2025) — Virginia Investment Performance Grants; awarding of Grants.

Virginia Investment Performance Grants. Authorizes Virginia Investment Performance Grants to be awarded under more lenient requirements if the recipient is located in a locality with an unemployment rate and poverty rate that exceeds the state average. Specifically, the bill would authorize payment of such grants if the average wage paid by the eligible manufacturer or research and development service, excluding fringe benefits, is no less than 85 percent of the prevailing average wage. Grants may be paid for projects in such localities that pay less than 85 percent of the prevailing average wage, upon a written finding by the Governor that the economic circumstances in the area are sufficiently distressed such that assistance to the locality to attract the project is justified. However, the minimum private investment and number of new jobs required to be created are still a condition of eligibility. This bill is identical to SB 1231.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Finance and Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House (90-Y 6-N) — 90–6 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate substitute agreed to by House (84-Y 9-N) — 84–9 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nadarius E. Clark — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100959D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-17 Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-01-21 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2179)
• 2025-01-22 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-24 Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-01-29 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
• 2025-01-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-29 Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-29 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-01-29 Printed as engrossed 25100959D-E
• 2025-01-29 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2179)
• 2025-01-30 Read third time and passed House (90-Y 6-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-01-31 Referred to Committee on Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-05 Committee substitute printed 25106807D-S1 substitution
• 2025-02-06 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-06 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-06 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2179)
• 2025-02-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-07 Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-07 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-07 Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-11 Senate substitute agreed to by House (84-Y 9-N) substitution
• 2025-02-13 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-13 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2179ER) passage
• 2025-02-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2179)
• 2025-02-13 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-16 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-02-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 162 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74f07800-cc59-4eb1-8bea-9b2b502808bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).