republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2296.md

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Bill	African Americans, formerly enslaved; identification of history in Virginia.	Directs the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to identify the history of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia and determine ways to preserve the history for educational and cultural purposes. Among other things, the Foundation would promote the identification, preservation, and conservation of historic sites significant to the history, presence, and contributions of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia; identify the contributions of African Americans to Virginia, the nation, and the world; identify historical sites significant to African American history in Virginia; and recommend ways to increase tourism and revenues associated with such sites. The bill creates a task force consisting of legislative and nonlegislative members to assist the Foundation in its work.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2296	Virginia HB 2296 (2017)	bill	Ethnic Groups	enacted	Delores L. McQuinn	4	32	13	2017-01-11	2017-03-20	openstates	ocd-bill/f6846d05-e2b7-4d89-b66d-5b6342e61e16	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2296	49f57b8f90e05c954f0868121cbb8b9f25a042ba562deb10af610fd8bb6bb3f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2296 (2017) — African Americans, formerly enslaved; identification of history in Virginia.

Directs the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities to identify the history of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia and determine ways to preserve the history for educational and cultural purposes. Among other things, the Foundation would promote the identification, preservation, and conservation of historic sites significant to the history, presence, and contributions of formerly enslaved African Americans in Virginia; identify the contributions of African Americans to Virginia, the nation, and the world; identify historical sites significant to African American history in Virginia; and recommend ways to increase tourism and revenues associated with such sites. The bill creates a task force consisting of legislative and nonlegislative members to assist the Foundation in its work.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0647) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2296ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17105201D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Presented and ordered printed 17103178D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Rules with amendments — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate amendments #1 and 2 agreed to by House — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate insisted on amendment #3 — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by House — 95–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Rules — 15–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Finance with amendment — 16–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate with amendments — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate amendment #3 rejected by House — 0–96 (fail) · legislature
• Reported from Appropriations with substitute — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Delores L. McQuinn — primary (person)
• Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
• C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
• David E. Yancey — cosponsor (person)
• J. Randall Minchew — cosponsor (person)
• Jeion A. Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
• Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
• Luke E. Torian — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
• Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
• Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-11 Presented and ordered printed 17103178D introduction
• 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2017-02-01 Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay 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 17105201D-H1
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2296H1
• 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 Rules referral-committee
• 2017-02-10 Rereferred to Finance referral-committee
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-17 Reading of amendments waived
• 2017-02-17 Rules Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-17 Reading of amendment waived
• 2017-02-17 Finance Committee amendment agreed to
• 2017-02-17 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2017-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-21 Senate amendments #1 and 2 agreed to by House (97-Y 0-N)
• 2017-02-21 Senate amendment #3 rejected by House (0-Y 96-N)
• 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
• 2017-02-24 Conference report agreed to by House (95-Y 0-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 647 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f6846d05-e2b7-4d89-b66d-5b6342e61e16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).