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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Fort Monroe Authority; increases number of members on Board of Trustees."
+description: "Adds three nonlegislative citizen members to the Fort Monroe Authority Board of Trustees, to be appointed by the Governor. The bill also changes the Secretary of Commerce and Trade and the Secretary of Natural Resources from voting to nonvoting ex officio members and removes the Lieutenant Governor from membership. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2356"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2356 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Authorities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Gordon C. Helsel, Jr."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-16"
+last_action: "2017-03-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91ebcb1b-5471-4be9-84a1-ea3e2988c622"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2356"
+source_hash: "7975fa2d2ab727225e6b08c07fc07bdec122987c4d6457f7a5f04d3283ce8a6c"
+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 2356 (2017) — Fort Monroe Authority; increases number of members on Board of Trustees.
+
+Adds three nonlegislative citizen members to the Fort Monroe Authority Board of Trustees, to be appointed by the Governor. The bill also changes the Secretary of Commerce and Trade and the Secretary of Natural Resources from voting to nonvoting ex officio members and removes the Lieutenant Governor from membership. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0732)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0732)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2356ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2356ER)
+3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103738D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2356)
+4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103738D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2356E)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-16** Presented and ordered printed 17103738D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-16** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-23** 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 HB2356E
+- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17103738D-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`
+- **2017-03-07** 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
+- **2017-03-24** Approved by Governor-Chapter 732 (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/91ebcb1b-5471-4be9-84a1-ea3e2988c622`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+