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type: "Bill"
title: "Planning district commissions; permits Indian tribes recognized by federal government to join."
description: "Permits certain Indian tribes recognized by the federal government to join planning district commissions as members and to negotiate the terms of such membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1686"
citation: "Virginia HB 1686 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-06"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a8e63ee1-7d77-45f1-a0c7-0f99d5191023"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1686"
source_hash: "680ab94f66e3f9c1b4f7966dae83a3e13b352b6e3b1f5288eda008c89c6a2f6b"
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 1686 (2017) — Planning district commissions; permits Indian tribes recognized by federal government to join.
Permits certain Indian tribes recognized by the federal government to join planning district commissions as members and to negotiate the terms of such membership.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0377)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0377)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1686ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1686ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102334D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1686)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17102334D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1686E)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment — **190** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102334D `introduction`
- **2017-01-06** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-24** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-01-24** Engrossed by House as amended HB1686E
- **2017-01-24** Printed as engrossed 17102334D-E
- **2017-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-26** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
- **2017-02-21** 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
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 377 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a8e63ee1-7d77-45f1-a0c7-0f99d5191023`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).