---
type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; membership."
description: "Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; membership. Changes the membership of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority by (i) adding one nonlegislative member who resides within the boundaries of Planning District 3 or 4 and (ii) reducing from two to one the nonlegislative members who reside within the boundaries of Planning District 5, 9, 10, or 11."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 725"
citation: "Virginia SB 725 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69d5b2bb-c8de-4aa5-9cd5-08e09d5a3ad6"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB725"
source_hash: "14b82a0e212c70dce83d65d85e231742ba99edc308791ef7762e6e16fc072575"
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 725 (2022) — Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; membership.

Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; membership. Changes the membership of the Board of Directors of the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority by (i) adding one nonlegislative member who resides within the boundaries of Planning District 3 or 4 and (ii) reducing from two to one the nonlegislative members who reside within the boundaries of Planning District 5, 9, 10, or 11.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0212** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0212)
2. **Presented and ordered printed 22103388D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB725)
3. **SB725ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB725ER)

## Votes

- House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 0-N) — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** Presented and ordered printed 22103388D `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB725)
- **2022-02-08** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-09** Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-09** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-09** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 Transportation Infrastructure and Funding `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-01** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (7-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-03** Reported from Transportation with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2022-03-08** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2022-03-08** Passed House with amendments BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-09** House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-11** Enrolled
- **2022-03-11** Signed by President
- **2022-03-11** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-18** Impact statement from DPB (SB725ER)
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 212 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69d5b2bb-c8de-4aa5-9cd5-08e09d5a3ad6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).