republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1973.md

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Bill	Economic Development Access Program; bonded projects.	Imposes a 48-month moratorium on the repayment of funds allocated to a locality for a bonded project pursuant to the Economic Development Access Program, provided that the conditions of the Commonwealth Transportation Board's economic development access policy are met. The bill has an emergency clause and is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 1973	Virginia HB 1973 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Commissions Boards and Institutions Generally Counties Cities and Towns Emergency Legislation Transportation	enacted	Israel D. O'Quinn	4	24	7	2017-01-10	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/69bd0c1a-6b52-4f22-bae0-24fc74a1dc0a	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1973	ba171ae65bf31c956fc61920d1a60d5ddcb27a98adbcafcc0e25a60f36c94b90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1973 (2017) — Economic Development Access Program; bonded projects.

Imposes a 48-month moratorium on the repayment of funds allocated to a locality for a bonded project pursuant to the Economic Development Access Program, provided that the conditions of the Commonwealth Transportation Board's economic development access policy are met. The bill has an emergency clause and 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 (CHAP0531) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1973ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 17102699D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17102699D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate amendment agreed to by House — 96–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with amendment — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Local Government with amendment — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 95–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
• C. Todd Gilbert — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher T. Head — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffrey L. Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph R. Yost — cosponsor (person)
• M. Keith Hodges — cosponsor (person)
• Nick Rush — cosponsor (person)
• Peter F. Farrell — cosponsor (person)
• Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
• Terry L. Austin — cosponsor (person)
• Todd E. Pillion — 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 17102699D introduction
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-01 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-01 Engrossed by House as amended HB1973E
• 2017-02-01 Printed as engrossed 17102699D-E
• 2017-02-02 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-03 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-17 Reading of amendment waived
• 2017-02-17 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-17 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2017-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-21 Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 0-N)
• 2017-02-24 Enrolled
• 2017-02-24 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-24 Signed by President
• 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
• 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 531 (effective 3/16/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/69bd0c1a-6b52-4f22-bae0-24fc74a1dc0a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).