---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Employment Commission; population projections."
description: "Virginia Employment Commission; population projections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 988"
citation: "Virginia SB 988 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "General Assembly", "Labor and Employment", "Unemployment Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rosalyn R. Dance"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-02-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ff6465b-4ee8-46c9-aa5e-bc497110927e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB988"
source_hash: "00e7fa0035fcb42484d22509e10f21d9ab33587a98d8ee85b3a18166c61d0a98"
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 988 (2017) — Virginia Employment Commission; population projections.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0020)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0020)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB988ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB988ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101265D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB988)

## Votes

- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Commerce and Labor — **14–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Rosalyn R. Dance — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101265D `introduction`
- **2017-01-03** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-09** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-10** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-10** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-13** Enrolled
- **2017-02-13** Signed by President
- **2017-02-13** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-14** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/14/17
- **2017-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2017
- **2017-02-17** Approved by Governor-Chapter 20 (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/1ff6465b-4ee8-46c9-aa5e-bc497110927e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).