---
type: "Bill"
title: "State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees."
description: "State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1727"
citation: "Virginia HB 1727 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret B. Ransone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-07"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fcb2276e-d59f-4bd0-b73c-b2539b48cb91"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1727"
source_hash: "7918bb04b76697f4fc79c6b2d548b642eab264c359b758ae675d2ef4dd253cd8"
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 1727 (2017) — State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act; school boards and school board employees.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0146)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0146)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1727ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1727ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100496D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1727)

## Votes

- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rules — **12–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Margaret B. Ransone — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100496D `introduction`
- **2017-01-07** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
- **2017-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 146 (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/fcb2276e-d59f-4bd0-b73c-b2539b48cb91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).