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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Roanoke Higher Education Authority; removes president of Bluefield College from board of trustees."
+description: "Removes the president of Bluefield College from the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2379"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2379 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2017-01-17"
+last_action: "2017-03-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91ff3f51-e3dc-4499-86d7-2bdda0c68ed7"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2379"
+source_hash: "f2f2bd1c5b5aaa38a4e497169935c1d16f64551675b2830213c64de7620e3168"
+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 2379 (2017) — Roanoke Higher Education Authority; removes president of Bluefield College from board of trustees.
+
+Removes the president of Bluefield College from the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority. 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 (CHAP0324)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0324)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2379ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2379ER)
+3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103341D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2379)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Education — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 17103341D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-17** 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 BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-23** 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
+- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 324 (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/91ff3f51-e3dc-4499-86d7-2bdda0c68ed7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+