---
type: "Bill"
title: "Stock corporations; shareholders' meetings."
description: "Stock corporations; shareholders' meetings."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2230"
citation: "Virginia HB 2230 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benjamin L. Cline"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ad754b2-94b0-47d0-be98-044e0fd609f5"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2230"
source_hash: "ea3002ec7f9856fe94bb347d03f01756479087290187f627c4ec11dce3313d71"
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 2230 (2017) — Stock corporations; shareholders' meetings.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0646)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2230ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2230ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102045D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2230)

## Votes

- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **21–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Benjamin L. Cline — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102045D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-16** Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
- **2017-02-16** Rereferred to Courts of Justice `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
- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 646 (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/3ad754b2-94b0-47d0-be98-044e0fd609f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).