---
type: "Bill"
title: "FOIA; proprietary records and trade secrets, charitable gaming supplies."
description: "FOIA; proprietary records and trade secrets, charitable gaming supplies."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2178"
citation: "Virginia HB 2178 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Consumer Protection", "Gambling", "Lotteries", "Etc."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12450a5b-6276-4240-82fb-369b56646208"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2178"
source_hash: "7b7b5b9b5f1423d1ed3b2c9e79341b904b9524e680205b41372cf6267df596d3"
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 2178 (2017) — FOIA; proprietary records and trade secrets, charitable gaming supplies.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0662)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0662)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2178ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2178ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103811D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2178)

## Votes

- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103811D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-10** Assigned GL&T sub: #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 662 (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/12450a5b-6276-4240-82fb-369b56646208`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).