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Bill	Virginia Veteran and Family Support program; established, report.	Updates the purposes and priorities of the Virginia Veteran and Family Support program to, in a cost-effective manner, refer veterans to mental health, physical rehabilitation, and other services as needed to help them achieve individually identified goals and to monitor their progress toward achieving those goals. The program is available to veterans and members of the Virginia National Guard in the Commonwealth, residents of the Commonwealth in the Armed Forces Reserves who are not in active federal service, and family members of covered military members who have been affected by the covered military members' service and deployments and who are located in the Commonwealth. The bill requires an annual report on the program be sent to the Governor and the General Assembly.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2206	Virginia HB 2206 (2017)	bill	Administration of Government Administration of Government Armed Forces Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	M. Kirkland Cox	3	15	8	2017-01-11	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/8df77bdd-0114-4ba6-a0b4-a66caddf633b	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2206	562cd1cc0d79c1b3fd82ad12f756b8c31ad8d35c2b54e6ab0f74667824de3117	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2206 (2017) — Virginia Veteran and Family Support program; established, report.

Updates the purposes and priorities of the Virginia Veteran and Family Support program to, in a cost-effective manner, refer veterans to mental health, physical rehabilitation, and other services as needed to help them achieve individually identified goals and to monitor their progress toward achieving those goals. The program is available to veterans and members of the Virginia National Guard in the Commonwealth, residents of the Commonwealth in the Armed Forces Reserves who are not in active federal service, and family members of covered military members who have been affected by the covered military members' service and deployments and who are located in the Commonwealth. The bill requires an annual report on the program be sent to the Governor and the General Assembly.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0497) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2206ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101851D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 95–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 7–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Appropriations — 22–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance — 16–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• M. Kirkland Cox — primary (person)
• Barry D. Knight — cosponsor (person)
• Benjamin L. Cline — cosponsor (person)
• C. Matthew Fariss — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher E. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
• Christopher P. Stolle — cosponsor (person)
• Dave A. LaRock — cosponsor (person)
• David W. Marsden — cosponsor (person)
• Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
• G. Manoli Loupassi — cosponsor (person)
• Glenn R. Davis — cosponsor (person)
• Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• J. Randall Minchew — cosponsor (person)
• Jackson H. Miller — cosponsor (person)
• James A. "Jay" Leftwich — cosponsor (person)
• James M. LeMunyon — cosponsor (person)
• James P. "Jimmie" Massie, III — cosponsor (person)
• James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
• Jason S. Miyares — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• John M. O'Bannon, III — cosponsor (person)
• Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
• L. Mark Dudenhefer — cosponsor (person)
• L. Scott Lingamfelter — cosponsor (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• Les R. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Margaret B. Ransone — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
• Nicholas J. Freitas — cosponsor (person)
• R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
• Richard L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)
• Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Riley E. Ingram — cosponsor (person)
• Robert D. Orrock, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• Robert G. Marshall — cosponsor (person)
• Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Ronald A. Villanueva — cosponsor (person)
• Roxann L. Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• S. Chris Jones — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• T. Scott Garrett — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — cosponsor (person)
• Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
• Todd E. Pillion — cosponsor (person)
• Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101851D introduction
• 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-01-16 Assigned App. sub: Public Safety referral-committee
• 2017-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (95-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-06 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-06 Referred to Committee on Finance 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 497 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8df77bdd-0114-4ba6-a0b4-a66caddf633b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).