---
type: "Bill"
title: "Humanities, Virginia Foundation for the; adds members to task force."
description: "Humanities, Virginia Foundation for the; adds members to task force."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2699"
citation: "Virginia HB 2699 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Delores L. McQuinn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-15"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b90f2ae-73a0-4dec-b032-36edd6c16c83"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2699"
source_hash: "7b5ff96ca2758a9cec7fbc248075054fbf049dbb9fd0aa2a24b42e670b57a088"
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 2699 (2019) — Humanities, Virginia Foundation for the; adds members to task force.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0230)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2699ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2699ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19104555D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2699)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Delores L. McQuinn — primary (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Michael P. Mullin — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-15** Presented and ordered printed 19104555D `introduction`
- **2019-01-15** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-01-28** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled
- **2019-02-14** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-14** Signed by President
- **2019-02-18** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 18, 2019
- **2019-02-18** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 230 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b90f2ae-73a0-4dec-b032-36edd6c16c83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).