republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-1207.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 HB 2540.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1207	Virginia SB 1207 (2025)	bill		enacted	Tammy Brankley Mulchi	5	35	7	2025-01-08	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/bc73ed6f-cd6a-4741-90b1-af75ce659c4a	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1207	b4a13f57798503b9af4cc2f199546afdd40df327a8dcab2be3a5251307449853	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1207 (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 HB 2540.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 1-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Rereferred from Commerce and Labor and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed House (90-Y 6-N) — 90–6 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Tammy Brankley Mulchi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100957D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor referral-committee
• 2025-01-16 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1207)
• 2025-01-20 Rereferred from Commerce Labor and Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (12-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2025-01-28 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-29 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-29 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-29 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-30 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1207)
• 2025-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-30 Reading of amendment waived
• 2025-01-30 Finance and Appropriations Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-01-30 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2025-01-30 Printed as engrossed 25100957D-E
• 2025-01-30 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-30 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 1-N)
• 2025-01-30 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-04 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-04 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2025-02-10 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-13 Moved from Uncontested Calendar to Regular Calendar
• 2025-02-13 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Passed House (90-Y 6-N) passage
• 2025-02-18 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-18 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1207ER) passage
• 2025-02-18 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1207)
• 2025-02-18 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-03 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-03 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 110 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0110)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc73ed6f-cd6a-4741-90b1-af75ce659c4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).