republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1697.md

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Bill	Extension of approvals to address housing crisis.	Extends the sunset date for several measures related to various land use approvals from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2020. The bill also expands the scope of such measures that will be subject to the extension to include those measures approved by January 1, 2017.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1697	Virginia HB 1697 (2017)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Housing	enacted	Daniel W. Marshall, III	4	29	10	2017-01-06	2017-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/e2cf2af1-57d4-4538-b679-209e6dcc5af9	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1697	914c6761ee06f808bbe44942e5969fe746fe9b07e63d36112c6e0684bd7feab6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1697 (2017) — Extension of approvals to address housing crisis.

Extends the sunset date for several measures related to various land use approvals from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2020. The bill also expands the scope of such measures that will be subject to the extension to include those measures approved by January 1, 2017.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0660) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1697ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101449D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17101449D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate insisted on amendments — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate amendments rejected by House — 1–95 (fail) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 94–2 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with amendments — 37–3 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Local Government with amendments — 10–3 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by House — 92–2 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 8–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Daniel W. Marshall, III — primary (person)
• Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101449D 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
• 2017-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House as amended HB1697E
• 2017-02-06 Printed as engrossed 17101449D-E
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House (94-Y 2-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-17 Reading of amendments waived
• 2017-02-17 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-17 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2017-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-21 Senate amendments rejected by House (1-Y 95-N 1-A)
• 2017-02-22 Senate requested conference committee
• 2017-02-23 House acceded to request
• 2017-02-23 Conferees appointed by House
• 2017-02-23 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2017-02-23 Amended by conference committee
• 2017-02-24 Conference report agreed to by House (92-Y 2-N)
• 2017-03-07 Enrolled
• 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-10 Signed by President
• 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
• 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-20 Approved by Governor-Chapter 660 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e2cf2af1-57d4-4538-b679-209e6dcc5af9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).