republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-237.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board; increases membership."
description: "Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board. Modifies aspects of the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board by adding a fourth Secretary to the Board's membership, to be appointed by the Governor, and providing that the Secretary of Labor may be one of the Secretaries appointed to the Board. The bill also reduces the amount of matching funds required for any grant awarded from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund by requiring such funds to be equal to at least half of the grant awarded until July 1, 2028."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 237"
citation: "Virginia HB 237 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Terry L. Austin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2024-01-04"
last_action: "2024-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9cb9ab2-5d0b-4946-a5dc-8b2757ffa47c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB237"
source_hash: "8db538182ecd531a8e90f2f02f2bf9ed8b9dbc48106b0efe57d0789188adcb5c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---

# Virginia HB 237 (2024) — Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board; increases membership.

Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board. Modifies aspects of the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Board by adding a fourth Secretary to the Board's membership, to be appointed by the Governor, and providing that the Secretary of Labor may be one of the Secretaries appointed to the Board. The bill also reduces the amount of matching funds required for any grant awarded from the Virginia Growth and Opportunity Fund by requiring such funds to be equal to at least half of the grant awarded until July 1, 2028.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0276** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0276)
2. **Committee substitute printed 24108091D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB237S1)
3. **HB237ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB237ER)
4. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102385D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB237)

## Votes

- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (92-Y 0-N) — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Referred from Labor and Commerce — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N) — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Terry L. Austin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102385D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-04** Referred to Committee on Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Referred from Labor and Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-01-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB237)
- **2024-01-29** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (92-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (92-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-05** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Rereferred from Commerce and Labor (14-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-21** Committee substitute printed 24108091D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB237S1)
- **2024-02-22** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-23** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** Reading of substitute waived
- **2024-02-23** Committee substitute agreed to 24108091D-S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-23** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB237S1 `substitution`
- **2024-02-23** Passed Senate with substitute (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Senate substitute agreed to by House 24108091D-S1 (96-Y 0-N) `substitution`
- **2024-02-27** VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-04** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB237ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB237ER)
- **2024-03-04** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 276 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0276)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b9cb9ab2-5d0b-4946-a5dc-8b2757ffa47c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).