Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2237.md

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "State Inspector General, Office of the; \"state agency\" includes any local dept. of social services."
+description: "Extends the jurisdiction of the Office of the State Inspector General by amending the definition of \"state agency\" to include any local department of social services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2237"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2237 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Benjamin L. Cline"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2017-01-11"
+last_action: "2017-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec69dde5-4c5b-4aca-826c-cf015f048224"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2237"
+source_hash: "83e6d4e0596a3efac1e6fc6cae813b8a83bec4460a5441b64cd4280f4e230fe2"
+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 2237 (2017) — State Inspector General, Office of the; "state agency" includes any local dept. of social services.
+
+Extends the jurisdiction of the Office of the State Inspector General by amending the definition of "state agency" to include any local department of social services.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0590)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2237ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2237ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103056D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2237)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103056D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2237E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Senate receded from amendment — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Senate amendment rejected by House — **0–100** (fail) · legislature
+- Passed Senate with amendment — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Benjamin L. Cline — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103056D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-18** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `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 HB2237E
+- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17103056D-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 on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-22** Reading of amendment waived
+- **2017-02-22** Committee amendment agreed to
+- **2017-02-22** Engrossed by Senate as amended
+- **2017-02-23** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-02-23** Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 100-N)
+- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
+- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
+- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
+- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 590 (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/ec69dde5-4c5b-4aca-826c-cf015f048224`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+