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type: "Bill"
title: "Transportation planning, state and local; adoption of comprehensive plan in Northern Virginia."
description: "Provides that prior to the adoption of or amendment to any comprehensive plan that substantially affects transportation on state-controlled highways in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), the Department of Transportation shall specify by name and location any transportation facility having a functional classification of minor arterial or higher for which an increase in traffic volume is expected to exceed the capacity of such facility as a result of the proposed plan or amendment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2138"
citation: "Virginia HB 2138 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Northern Virginia", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James M. LeMunyon"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c0c766c-ab1e-4afe-8a26-86f9e810708d"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2138"
source_hash: "a3153d1683d2cdda9a3732e058ef61b66f68a3c9d2e144d256ad2c905e90a635"
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 2138 (2017) — Transportation planning, state and local; adoption of comprehensive plan in Northern Virginia.
Provides that prior to the adoption of or amendment to any comprehensive plan that substantially affects transportation on state-controlled highways in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia), the Department of Transportation shall specify by name and location any transportation facility having a functional classification of minor arterial or higher for which an increase in traffic volume is expected to exceed the capacity of such facility as a result of the proposed plan or amendment.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0536)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0536)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2138ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2138ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104804D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2138H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101142D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2138)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- James M. LeMunyon — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101142D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17104804D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2138H1
- **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 Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** 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 536 (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/2c0c766c-ab1e-4afe-8a26-86f9e810708d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).