---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workforce Transition Act; eligibility."
description: "Workforce Transition Act; eligibility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2428"
citation: "Virginia HB 2428 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Labor and Employment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roxann L. Robinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-19"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b3186917-0f12-4ddf-a555-eba97ecc1ba9"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2428"
source_hash: "21c0e60263af1a45b15ea86ed83f825715d30b5eae21f1a2bac8ebedc02daa9e"
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 2428 (2017) — Workforce Transition Act; eligibility.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0359)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0359)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2428ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2428ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103889D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2428)

## Votes

- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **20–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Roxann L. Robinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 17103889D `introduction`
- **2017-01-19** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** 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 359 (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/b3186917-0f12-4ddf-a555-eba97ecc1ba9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).