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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Workers' Compensation Commission; quorum."
+description: "Provides that the commissioners of the Workers' Compensation Commission, for purposes of constituting a quorum, shall include any deputy commissioner or retired commissioner who is appointed or recalled, respectively, to fill a vacancy on the Commission."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 117"
+citation: "Virginia HB 117 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Workers' Compensation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Terry G. Kilgore"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2017-12-15"
+last_action: "2018-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb4a1e45-5717-4a46-b8b5-5af11cdab7ff"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB117"
+source_hash: "c4ae4745416cabc328bb673ee402903f93b6f4341881b6f15369362bee629b08"
+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 117 (2018) — Workers' Compensation Commission; quorum.
+
+Provides that the commissioners of the Workers' Compensation Commission, for purposes of constituting a quorum, shall include any deputy commissioner or retired commissioner who is appointed or recalled, respectively, to fill a vacancy on the Commission.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB117ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB117ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101557D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB117)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-12-15** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101557D `introduction`
+- **2017-12-15** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-01-22** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
+- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
+- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
+- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
+- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 250 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb4a1e45-5717-4a46-b8b5-5af11cdab7ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+