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Bill	Historical African American cemeteries/graves; disbursement of funds appropriated for preservation.	Directs the distribution of funds appropriated for such purpose to qualifying charitable organizations that preserve historical African American cemeteries established before 1900. The funding formula is $5, or the average actual cost of routine maintenance, multiplied by the number of graves, monuments, and markers of African Americans who lived at any time between 1800 and 1900 and are interred in the cemetery. The bill lists two cemeteries, East End Cemetery in Henrico County and Evergreen Cemetery in the City of Richmond, that are to receive any funds appropriated for a total of 6,975 gravesites.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1547	Virginia HB 1547 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Conservation Ethnic Groups	enacted	Delores L. McQuinn	3	17	10	2016-12-29	2017-03-03	openstates	ocd-bill/caeca6ff-bf0e-45b3-9abb-2be0799380c9	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1547	e1b818a01283b3b4a50a3ba8473bc4d0e1bda05053eecab8b0978eea39a9e674	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1547 (2017) — Historical African American cemeteries/graves; disbursement of funds appropriated for preservation.

Directs the distribution of funds appropriated for such purpose to qualifying charitable organizations that preserve historical African American cemeteries established before 1900. The funding formula is $5, or the average actual cost of routine maintenance, multiplied by the number of graves, monuments, and markers of African Americans who lived at any time between 1800 and 1900 and are interred in the cemetery. The bill lists two cemeteries, East End Cemetery in Henrico County and Evergreen Cemetery in the City of Richmond, that are to receive any funds appropriated for a total of 6,975 gravesites.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1547ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101511D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Appropriations — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 14–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Delores L. McQuinn — primary (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• Charniele L. Herring — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
• Daun S. Hester — cosponsor (person)
• Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
• Jackson H. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
• Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
• Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
• R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
• Richard C. "Rip" Sullivan, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-29 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101511D introduction
• 2016-12-29 Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-01-12 Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Assigned App. sub: Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Technology referral-committee
• 2017-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2017-02-16 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-20 Enrolled
• 2017-02-20 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-21 Signed by President
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
• 2017-02-21 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-03 Approved by Governor-Chapter 270 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/caeca6ff-bf0e-45b3-9abb-2be0799380c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).