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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Transportation planning, state and local; adoption of comprehensive plan in Northern Virginia."
+description: "Provides that prior to the adoption of or amendment to any comprehensive plan that substantially affects transportation on state-controlled highways in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), the Department of Transportation shall specify by name and location any transportation facility having a functional classification of minor arterial or higher for which an increase in traffic volume is expected to exceed the capacity of such facility as a result of the proposed plan or amendment."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2138"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2138 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Northern Virginia", "Transportation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James M. LeMunyon"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2017-01-11"
+last_action: "2017-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c0c766c-ab1e-4afe-8a26-86f9e810708d"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2138"
+source_hash: "a3153d1683d2cdda9a3732e058ef61b66f68a3c9d2e144d256ad2c905e90a635"
+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 2138 (2017) — Transportation planning, state and local; adoption of comprehensive plan in Northern Virginia.
+
+Provides that prior to the adoption of or amendment to any comprehensive plan that substantially affects transportation on state-controlled highways in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), the Department of Transportation shall specify by name and location any transportation facility having a functional classification of minor arterial or higher for which an increase in traffic volume is expected to exceed the capacity of such facility as a result of the proposed plan or amendment.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0536)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2138ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2138ER)
+3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104804D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2138H1)
+4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101142D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2138)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James M. LeMunyon — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101142D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-20** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17104804D-H1
+- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2138H1
+- **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 on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-23** 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 536 (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/2c0c766c-ab1e-4afe-8a26-86f9e810708d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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