---
type: "Bill"
title: "Statewide one-stop online portal for address changes; Secretary of Transportation to study."
description: "Requires the Secretary of Transportation or his designee to convene a task force to study the feasibility of establishing a one-stop online portal for citizen address changes in order to develop a single statewide address database for utilization by state entities. The task force shall submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a report on its findings and recommendations by November 1, 2017. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2018."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1363"
citation: "Virginia SB 1363 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Computer Services and Uses", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark D. Obenshain"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eecc6b84-c2f1-4eee-a490-be3d55b82f65"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1363"
source_hash: "22b1cd23c389fda32acb9e99ae5530abcfb37853beb16712d685ac21634ae708"
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 SB 1363 (2017) — Statewide one-stop online portal for address changes; Secretary of Transportation to study.

Requires the Secretary of Transportation or his designee to convene a task force to study the feasibility of establishing a one-stop online portal for citizen address changes in order to develop a single statewide address database for utilization by state entities. The task force shall submit to the Governor and the General Assembly a report on its findings and recommendations by November 1, 2017. The bill has an expiration date of July 1, 2018.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0553)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1363ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1363ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103120D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1363)
4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17103120D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1363E)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Rules with amendment — **14–1** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **37–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103120D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1363E
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17103120D-E
- **2017-02-09** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-09** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Enrolled
- **2017-02-22** Signed by President
- **2017-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
- **2017-02-23** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 553 (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/eecc6b84-c2f1-4eee-a490-be3d55b82f65`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).