republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2540.md

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Bill	Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund; created, definitions.	Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund. Establishes the Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund to, subject to appropriation, fund 20 annual grant award installments, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $60.597 million, to a qualified company that engages in the manufacture of lithium-ion battery separators and that executes a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority, and that on and after July 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2045, is expected to (i) make a capital investment, defined in the bill, of at least $1.3506 billion and (ii) create and maintain at least 2,015 new full-time jobs in Pittsylvania County. This bill is identical to SB 1207.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2540	Virginia HB 2540 (2025)	bill		enacted	Daniel W. Marshall, III	5	31	6	2025-01-09	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/1be30c4b-144e-40a9-93e4-5baccb599384	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2540	3dfddd6538aec8327396bb67e9c6bb4b76beb82843700143e99157984644d6bd	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2540 (2025) — Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund; created, definitions.

Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund. Establishes the Lithium-ion Battery Separator Manufacturing Grant Fund to, subject to appropriation, fund 20 annual grant award installments, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $60.597 million, to a qualified company that engages in the manufacture of lithium-ion battery separators and that executes a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth and the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority, and that on and after July 1, 2024, but before July 1, 2045, is expected to (i) make a capital investment, defined in the bill, of at least $1.3506 billion and (ii) create and maintain at least 2,015 new full-time jobs in Pittsylvania County. This bill is identical to SB 1207.

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. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

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

Sponsors

• Daniel W. Marshall, III — primary (person)
• Eric Phillips — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104335D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-09 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2540)
• 2025-01-18 Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 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 25104335D-E
• 2025-01-30 Read third time and passed House (90-Y 6-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2540)
• 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 (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 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
• 2025-02-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-07 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-10 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-10 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2540ER) passage
• 2025-02-10 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2540)
• 2025-02-13 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-02-18 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 93 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0093)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1be30c4b-144e-40a9-93e4-5baccb599384. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).