---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge; designating as Virginia Route 114 bridge."
description: "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge; designating as Virginia Route 114 bridge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1741"
citation: "Virginia HB 1741 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Highways", "Bridges and Ferries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Rush"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-08"
last_action: "2017-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7104286c-7adc-445b-bfe0-ef5ab57deb91"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1741"
source_hash: "c63c04c008db206529d7014144e017219270fc275025f4a2d4c2800b8689f515"
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 1741 (2017) — Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge; designating as Virginia Route 114 bridge.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0124)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0124)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1741ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1741ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101483D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1741)

## Votes

- Reported from Transportation — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Nick Rush — primary (person)
- Gregory D. Habeeb — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph R. Yost — cosponsor (person)
- Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
- Richard L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101483D `introduction`
- **2017-01-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-01** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Enrolled
- **2017-02-15** 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 124 (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/7104286c-7adc-445b-bfe0-ef5ab57deb91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).