---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia State University; revenue-producing capital project."
description: "Virginia State University; revenue-producing capital project."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2249"
citation: "Virginia HB 2249 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency Legislation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Chris Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64e3dfb9-fbcc-4a60-bed7-998707c0bbba"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2249"
source_hash: "cef5e2f67633aa678f969d4903e3994b031a7d2666894ee0a59534e6ea873959"
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 2249 (2017) — Virginia State University; revenue-producing capital project.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0420)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0420)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2249ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2249ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17102174D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2249)

## Votes

- Reported from Appropriations — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **16–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- S. Chris Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17102174D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-03** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-06** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Enrolled
- **2017-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 420 (effective 3/13/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/64e3dfb9-fbcc-4a60-bed7-998707c0bbba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).