---
type: "Bill"
title: "DRIVE SMART Virginia Education Fund; created."
description: "DRIVE SMART Virginia Education Fund; created."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2015"
citation: "Virginia HB 2015 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Highways", "Bridges and Ferries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronald A. Villanueva"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d22c68a-401a-48aa-b322-9235693be1ff"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2015"
source_hash: "f0f6a5498ff1c86db3234c966ce9a78872fbd8b98580eaeabbaefb1a2b414a5a"
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 2015 (2017) — DRIVE SMART Virginia Education Fund; created.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0533)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0533)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2015ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2015ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101953D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2015)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Ronald A. Villanueva — primary (person)
- Richard L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101953D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** 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`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 533 (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/5d22c68a-401a-48aa-b322-9235693be1ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).