---
type: "Bill"
title: "National Flood Insurance Program; participation by affected localities, report."
description: "Requires the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue a report by November 1, 2018, listing any locality not participating in the Community Rating System of the National Flood Insurance Program and recommending any legislation necessary to encourage participation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2319"
citation: "Virginia HB 2319 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jason S. Miyares"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-12"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c954da2a-4d0f-439f-8a13-57fc43cc4645"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2319"
source_hash: "7b101a3ff46057eea53d236899b02c76c0de4170924e0064a38ac7dd73d0f1d5"
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 2319 (2017) — National Flood Insurance Program; participation by affected localities, report.

Requires the Secretary of Natural Resources to issue a report by November 1, 2018, listing any locality not participating in the Community Rating System of the National Flood Insurance Program and recommending any legislation necessary to encourage participation.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0274)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0274)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2319ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2319ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103633D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2319)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103633D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2319E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments — **19–1** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **9–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jason S. Miyares — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-12** Presented and ordered printed 17103633D `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`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2319E
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17103633D-E
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `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
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 274 (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/c954da2a-4d0f-439f-8a13-57fc43cc4645`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).