---
type: "Bill"
title: "Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees, membership."
description: "Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees, membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 295"
citation: "Virginia SB 295 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Authorities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John S. Edwards"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-01-08"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8091bcf3-ccc1-4022-986d-602ac30211ab"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB295"
source_hash: "ebb765c45febfdb4888913203440d64a879e7440063e2534fe6077b834227c38"
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 295 (2018) — Roanoke Higher Education Authority; board of trustees, membership.

## Version chain

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

1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB295ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB295ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103801D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB295)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **100–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- John S. Edwards — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18103801D `introduction`
- **2018-01-08** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Passed by for the day
- **2018-01-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **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 140 (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/8091bcf3-ccc1-4022-986d-602ac30211ab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).