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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Southern Virginia Higher Education Center; members of board of trustees, powers and duties."
+description: "Requires"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2172"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2172 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Southside Virginia"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["James E. Edmunds, II"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2017-01-11"
+last_action: "2017-02-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bb7dcee-a749-4132-88c9-e37b9d9382cf"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2172"
+source_hash: "f662e070fe2fdb4772df056c9d20251627d70322c6f89bf73302a3bf63126bed"
+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 2172 (2017) — Southern Virginia Higher Education Center; members of board of trustees, powers and duties.
+
+Requires
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0236)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2172ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2172ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101742D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2172)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education — **20–1** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- James E. Edmunds, II — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101742D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-15** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
+- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
+- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 236 (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/2bb7dcee-a749-4132-88c9-e37b9d9382cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+