republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1943.md

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Bill	Administrative Process Act; economic impact analysis of proposed regulations.	Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to revise and reissue its economic impact analysis within the time limits set forth for the Department's review of regulations at the final stage pursuant to the Governor's executive order for executive branch review if one of the following conditions is present and would materially change the Department's analysis: (i) public comment timely received at the proposed stage indicates significant errors in the economic impact analysis or (ii) there is a significant or material difference between the agency's proposed economic impact analysis and the anticipated negative economic impacts to the business community as indicated by public comment. The bill provides that the determination as to whether either such condition is present shall be made by the Department and shall not be subject to judicial review. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1943	Virginia HB 1943 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Emergency Legislation Trade and Commerce	enacted	Christopher K. Peace	4	17	8	2017-01-10	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/c754076a-1971-40d3-b516-6ff9d37adb09	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1943	6f3d9b6c975b9d2cddef3ba41f930e533651ccb3e37425f72a735f28faed811b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1943 (2017) — Administrative Process Act; economic impact analysis of proposed regulations.

Requires the Department of Planning and Budget to revise and reissue its economic impact analysis within the time limits set forth for the Department's review of regulations at the final stage pursuant to the Governor's executive order for executive branch review if one of the following conditions is present and would materially change the Department's analysis: (i) public comment timely received at the proposed stage indicates significant errors in the economic impact analysis or (ii) there is a significant or material difference between the agency's proposed economic impact analysis and the anticipated negative economic impacts to the business community as indicated by public comment. The bill provides that the determination as to whether either such condition is present shall be made by the Department and shall not be subject to judicial review. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill 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 (CHAP0483) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1943ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17104903D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101679D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from General Laws and Technology — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from General Laws with substitute — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Christopher K. Peace — primary (person)
• Amanda F. Chase — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
• James M. LeMunyon — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17101679D introduction
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 referral-committee
• 2017-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 17104903D-H1
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1943H1
• 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
• 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 483 (effective 3/13/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c754076a-1971-40d3-b516-6ff9d37adb09. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).