---
type: "Bill"
title: "Yorktown Victory Center; renamed the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown."
description: "Renames the Yorktown Victory Center, operated by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, as the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 335"
citation: "Virginia HB 335 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Conservation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Lee Ware"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-04"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f0442a95-2e25-4a2b-93db-f4da3849e446"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB335"
source_hash: "9785c30f18d7e7efbbfdc121ee37110f7bdc810c240f9b14f413e567dff5dca8"
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 335 (2018) — Yorktown Victory Center; renamed the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

Renames the Yorktown Victory Center, operated by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, as the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown.

## Version chain

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

1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB335ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB335ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101500D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB335)

## Votes

- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **38–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- R. Lee Ware — primary (person)
- David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18101500D `introduction`
- **2018-01-04** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-01-29** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-01-29** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 137 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f0442a95-2e25-4a2b-93db-f4da3849e446`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).