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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher educational institutions; speech on campus."
+description: "Prohibits public institutions of higher education from abridging the constitutional freedom of any individual, including enrolled students, faculty and other employees, and invited guests, to speak on campus, except as otherwise permitted by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1401"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1401 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education", "Educational Institutions"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["R. Steven Landes"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2016-09-02"
+last_action: "2017-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9971a178-d30b-48eb-8267-d14e7c0e1d87"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1401"
+source_hash: "9163275d173d7ccd505f1e815fca8cc8f001ec9917141a88c0cf41745bcec94a"
+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 1401 (2017) — Higher educational institutions; speech on campus.
+
+Prohibits public institutions of higher education from abridging the constitutional freedom of any individual, including enrolled students, faculty and other employees, and invited guests, to speak on campus, except as otherwise permitted by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0506)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0506)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1401ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1401ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100215D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1401)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate with amendment — **36–4** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education — **16–5** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House — **76–19** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Senate amendment agreed to by House — **79–16** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
+- Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
+- Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- J. Randall Minchew — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson H. Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
+- Jason S. Miyares — cosponsor (person)
+- Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
+- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
+- Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
+- Rick L. Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Ronald A. Villanueva — cosponsor (person)
+- Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-09-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100215D `introduction`
+- **2016-09-02** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-25** Referred from Courts of Justice by voice vote
+- **2017-01-25** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-01** Pending question ordered
+- **2017-02-01** Engrossed by House
+- **2017-02-02** Read third time and passed House (76-Y 19-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-02-03** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-20** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2017-02-20** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-02-21** Senate amendment agreed to by House (79-Y 16-N)
+- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
+- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 506 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9971a178-d30b-48eb-8267-d14e7c0e1d87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+