---
type: "Bill"
title: "Gubernatorial appointments to boards; membership and terms."
description: "Gubernatorial appointments to boards; membership and terms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2285"
citation: "Virginia HB 2285 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Appointments", "Governor"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark L. Cole"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12df3240-2697-4805-9606-bb6d009b3cbc"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2285"
source_hash: "0b809b1558ed8d49b5d2d8da4205b17ec929186b2c27e2bffc0474633b87d731"
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 2285 (2017) — Gubernatorial appointments to boards; membership and terms.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0395)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2285ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2285ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17102253D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2285)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mark L. Cole — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Presented and ordered printed 17102253D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `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 General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-16** 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 395 (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/12df3240-2697-4805-9606-bb6d009b3cbc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).