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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Defendants; transportation order from correctional facility."
+description: "Requires the court or clerk, upon request of the attorney for the Commonwealth or counsel for the defendant, to issue a transportation order for a defendant to be brought to court from a correctional facility."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 1579"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1579 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Criminal Procedure", "Prisons and Other Methods of Correction"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jeffrey L. Campbell"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2017-01-02"
+last_action: "2017-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e3a8ff64-3408-4ae8-87f2-64094574c5d2"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1579"
+source_hash: "1a234152e395f6c9c17e1a5984e30ae4b3b895c01a3cf3c877562ed5b1005eec"
+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 1579 (2017) — Defendants; transportation order from correctional facility.
+
+Requires the court or clerk, upon request of the attorney for the Commonwealth or counsel for the defendant, to issue a transportation order for a defendant to be brought to court from a correctional facility.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0479)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0479)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1579ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1579ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101551D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1579)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17101551D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1579E)
+5. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105560D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1579S1)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105560D-S1 — **94–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate with substitute — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **11–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate with substitute — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jeffrey L. Campbell — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101551D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-02** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-13** Assigned Courts sub: Criminal Law `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB1579E
+- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17101551D-E
+- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2017-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 17105560D-S1
+- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1579S1
+- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-02-21** Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105560D-S1 (94-Y 0-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
+- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 479 (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/e3a8ff64-3408-4ae8-87f2-64094574c5d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+