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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Commonwealth of Virginia Institutions of Higher Education Bond Act of 2018; created."
+description: "Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $21 million for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 766"
+citation: "Virginia HB 766 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["S. Chris Jones"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2018-01-09"
+last_action: "2018-03-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b59690b-0810-42b2-a6cb-5839007d4f55"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB766"
+source_hash: "2708ff942ae583f4a1f816770e58dc327f3115b4135d9d8b542ed39461cd342b"
+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 766 (2018) — Commonwealth of Virginia Institutions of Higher Education Bond Act of 2018; created.
+
+Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $21 million for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to
+
+## 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 (HB766ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB766ER)
+2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101951D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB766)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Finance — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- S. Chris Jones — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101951D `introduction`
+- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-19** Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee on Finance `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 285 (effective 3/9/18) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b59690b-0810-42b2-a6cb-5839007d4f55`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+