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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 HB 2179.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 1231	Virginia SB 1231 (2025)	bill		enacted	Lashrecse D. Aird	7	50	11	2025-01-08	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/3c55bb8e-1ce6-43b0-9dd2-48f770fca522	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1231	6cac1da8d6ad26395c77a1e7687ce7bd7d11a3a70cbee968ee632b753b7c1012	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 1231 (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 HB 2179.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Appropriations Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. Conference Report (committee substitute) — source
5. General Laws and Technology Substitute (committee substitute) — source
6. General Laws and Technology Amendment (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Passed House with substitute (84-Y 12-N) — 84–12 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 38-N) — 0–38 (fail) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 3rd reading) (39-Y 1-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 3-N) — 92–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100960D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1231)
• 2025-01-22 Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-28 Committee substitute printed 25106324D-S1 substitution
• 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 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-01-30 General Laws and Technology Amendment rejected amendment-failure
• 2025-01-30 Reading of substitute waived
• 2025-01-30 General Laws and Technology Substitute agreed to
• 2025-01-30 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute substitution
• 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
• 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-05 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 with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-10 Committee substitute printed 25107018D-H1 substitution
• 2025-02-11 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1231)
• 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 Appropriations Substitute agreed to
• 2025-02-13 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2025-02-13 Passed House with substitute (84-Y 12-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 38-N)
• 2025-02-18 House insisted on substitute substitution
• 2025-02-18 House requested conference committee referral-committee
• 2025-02-19 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-19 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2025-02-19 Senators: Aird, VanValkenburg, Pillion
• 2025-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
• 2025-02-20 Delegates: Clark, Sickles, Wiley
• 2025-02-20 Amended by conference committee
• 2025-02-21 Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-22 Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 3-N) committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1231ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-12 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1231)
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 178 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0178)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3c55bb8e-1ce6-43b0-9dd2-48f770fca522. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).