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type: "Bill"
title: "Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund established."
description: "Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund established. Establishes the Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund and requires any eligible designated funds received under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to be deposited into the Fund. The bill authorizes the Director of the Department of Energy to provide grants for certain projects described in the federal Act relating to the protection of public health, safety, and property from the adverse effects of coal mining practices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1948"
citation: "Virginia HB 1948 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L. Bulova"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed8ff072-e6a0-484c-98bc-f8bad1a26ad4"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1948"
source_hash: "9f62fd6d9bd59a8669743301634efb62b496f204e8aefdc1a15df2f7529067be"
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 1948 (2025) — Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund established.
Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund established. Establishes the Abandoned Mine Land Grant Retention Fund and requires any eligible designated funds received under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to be deposited into the Fund. The bill authorizes the Director of the Department of Energy to provide grants for certain projects described in the federal Act relating to the protection of public health, safety, and property from the adverse effects of coal mining practices.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1014139.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071635.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1068632.PDF)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of Passed Senate with substitute block vote agreed to (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David L. Bulova — primary (person)
- Shelly A. Simonds — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25101334D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-06** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Assigned Approps sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-14** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1948)
- **2025-01-15** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-17** Reported from Appropriations (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-23** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-24** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Reported from Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-17** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-19** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-19** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-20** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1948ER) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1948)
- **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, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 151 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0151)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed8ff072-e6a0-484c-98bc-f8bad1a26ad4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).