---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commonwealth of Virginia Institutions of Higher Education Bond Act of 2019; created."
description: "Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $17,500,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2357"
citation: "Virginia HB 2357 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Chris Jones"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-08"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9afe238f-b5f1-4b27-91d5-7afa03d3d17a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2357"
source_hash: "ff84b6deb00497d8c9d37b44f658f6a041d92b1e4b9b58d0904d221f699abf52"
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 2357 (2019) — Commonwealth of Virginia Institutions of Higher Education Bond Act of 2019; created.

Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $17,500,000 for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause and is identical to

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0187)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0187)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2357ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2357ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19102505D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2357)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Appropriations — **20–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- S. Chris Jones — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/09/19 19102505D `introduction`
- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-28** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-29** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Enrolled
- **2019-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 187 (effective 3/5/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9afe238f-b5f1-4b27-91d5-7afa03d3d17a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).