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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; established, report."
+description: "Creates the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to improve the transportation into, from, within, and through Southwest Virginia; assist in regional economic development; and generally enhance highway safety in the affected localities through development of a proposed Coalfields Expressway. The bill regulates the membership and duties of the Authority."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 2474"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2474 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Authorities", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2017-01-20"
+last_action: "2017-03-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c123b9fe-8d31-4c42-8434-ebf55813224e"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2474"
+source_hash: "c4c6186dd94c65835172a2e74400970570fd84757e321e6ad51fa0f9f9d34176"
+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 2474 (2017) — Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; established, report.
+
+Creates the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to improve the transportation into, from, within, and through Southwest Virginia; assist in regional economic development; and generally enhance highway safety in the affected localities through development of a proposed Coalfields Expressway. The bill regulates the membership and duties of the Authority.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0543)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2474ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2474ER)
+3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17105017D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2474H1)
+4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103458D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2474)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **19–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
+- A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — cosponsor (person)
+- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-20** Presented and ordered printed 17103458D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-20** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-24** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #4 `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 17105017D-H1
+- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2474H1
+- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (96-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 543 (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/c123b9fe-8d31-4c42-8434-ebf55813224e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+