---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courthouses; county removal."
description: "Courthouses; county removal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2313"
citation: "Virginia HB 2313 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret B. Ransone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c17a3e23-15f6-45bb-b2a4-e15c3e2eaf98"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2313"
source_hash: "138e822e919f9bd78e0b5a96f199a4921b3f3990053c52bed02f8e33a78f2318"
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 2313 (2017) — Courthouses; county removal.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0487)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0487)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2313ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2313ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103730D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2313)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **21–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Margaret B. Ransone — primary (person)
- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
- Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Presented and ordered printed 17103730D `introduction`
- **2017-01-12** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-01** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-02** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
- **2017-02-21** 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 487 (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/c17a3e23-15f6-45bb-b2a4-e15c3e2eaf98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).