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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Rural Virginia, Center for; renames Center the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia."
+description: "Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia. This bill is identical to HB 1381."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 704"
+citation: "Virginia SB 704 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Tammy Brankley Mulchi"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-19"
+last_action: "2024-03-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/435bfb3e-c974-4609-90b0-541d904bf6b0"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB704"
+source_hash: "762e93a36942591c5ee63686069b96c42224e0851ee96e3a1ffd44a180038a68"
+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 SB 704 (2024) — Rural Virginia, Center for; renames Center the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia.
+
+Center for Rural Virginia; name change. Renames the Center for Rural Virginia as the Senator Frank M. Ruff, Jr. Center for Rural Virginia. This bill is identical to HB 1381.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0133** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0133)
+2. **Presented and ordered printed 24104217D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB704)
+3. **SB704ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB704ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Tammy Brankley Mulchi — primary (person)
+- Aaron R. Rouse — cosponsor (person)
+- Adam P. Ebbin — cosponsor (person)
+- Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
+- Barbara A. Favola — cosponsor (person)
+- Bill DeSteph — cosponsor (person)
+- Bryce E. Reeves — cosponsor (person)
+- Christie New Craig — cosponsor (person)
+- Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
+- Danica A. Roem — cosponsor (person)
+- David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
+- David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)
+- Emily M. Jordan — cosponsor (person)
+- Ghazala F. Hashmi — cosponsor (person)
+- Glen H. Sturtevant, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- J.D. "Danny" Diggs — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer D. Carroll Foy — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeremy S. McPike — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. McGuire, III — cosponsor (person)
+- L. Louise Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
+- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
+- Mamie E. Locke — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark D. Obenshain — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark J. Peake — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Creigh Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Richard H. Stuart — cosponsor (person)
+- Russet Perry — cosponsor (person)
+- Ryan T. McDougle — cosponsor (person)
+- Saddam Azlan Salim — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
+- Stella G. Pekarsky — cosponsor (person)
+- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Travis Hackworth — cosponsor (person)
+- Tara A. Durant — cosponsor (person)
+- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Timmy F. French — cosponsor (person)
+- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
+- William M. Stanley, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 24104217D `introduction`
+- **2024-01-19** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-31** Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-02-05** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-06** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15** Reported from General Laws (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-19** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-20** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-02-26** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB704ER) `passage`
+- **2024-02-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-02-29** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor-Chapter 133 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-26** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/435bfb3e-c974-4609-90b0-541d904bf6b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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