---
type: "Bill"
title: "Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes."
description: "Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2023"
citation: "Virginia HB 2023 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Highways", "Bridges and Ferries", "Motor Vehicles", "Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ronald A. Villanueva"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f39ddd6c-6fec-4c28-8ce2-9a360f3175ba"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2023"
source_hash: "982b840878e7778e4088a1ee3a15faaf871cce5817cf5d7bb288f2774d869608"
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 2023 (2017) — Highway maintenance payments; bicycle lanes.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0534)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0534)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2023ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2023ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102193D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2023)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Ronald A. Villanueva — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Bill R. DeSteph, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
- David J. Toscano — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- G. Manoli Loupassi — cosponsor (person)
- Joseph C. Lindsey — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Steve E. Heretick — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102193D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-25** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Passed by for the day
- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
- **2017-02-24** 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 534 (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/f39ddd6c-6fec-4c28-8ce2-9a360f3175ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).