---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth; mission."
description: "Expands the mission of the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to include the reduction and prevention of substance use by youth in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1751"
citation: "Virginia HB 1751 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health", "Minors", "Narcotics and Drugs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John M. O'Bannon, III"]
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/ecab7cc1-77a3-4842-a7b9-f9285eacd727"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1751"
source_hash: "ec5fd0072b8b8ba3775db13aa6bf0305f7fe66d3dbdcf41d332f8edb17ccd973"
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 1751 (2017) — Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth; mission.

Expands the mission of the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to include the reduction and prevention of substance use by youth in the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0109)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0109)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1751ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1751ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101454D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1751)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **92–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Health, Welfare and Institutions — **22–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- John M. O'Bannon, III — primary (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101454D `introduction`
- **2017-01-08** Referred to Committee on Health, Welfare and Institutions `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-20** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (92-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-23** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-23** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `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 109 (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/ecab7cc1-77a3-4842-a7b9-f9285eacd727`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).