---
type: "Bill"
title: "Southern Virginia Higher Education Center; members of board of trustees, powers and duties."
description: "Requires"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2172"
citation: "Virginia HB 2172 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Southside Virginia"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James E. Edmunds, II"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bb7dcee-a749-4132-88c9-e37b9d9382cf"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2172"
source_hash: "f662e070fe2fdb4772df056c9d20251627d70322c6f89bf73302a3bf63126bed"
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 2172 (2017) — Southern Virginia Higher Education Center; members of board of trustees, powers and duties.

Requires

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0236)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0236)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2172ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2172ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101742D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2172)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **20–1** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- James E. Edmunds, II — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101742D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** 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
- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 236 (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/2bb7dcee-a749-4132-88c9-e37b9d9382cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).