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type: "Bill"
title: "Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Government; school board employees, Planning District 4."
description: "Provides that school divisions located in Planning District 4, New River Valley, are not subject to the prohibition against hiring a school division employee who is related to a member of the school board under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2354"
citation: "Virginia HB 2354 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nick Rush"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-16"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de58bcec-8876-4fc8-8627-27817305aa37"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2354"
source_hash: "5536364ea0f1dab24de76fb9c80305c7c2622e6bbf5f1d471592c0457fa2a1ce"
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 2354 (2017) — Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Government; school board employees, Planning District 4.
Provides that school divisions located in Planning District 4, New River Valley, are not subject to the prohibition against hiring a school division employee who is related to a member of the school board under certain circumstances.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0515)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2354ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2354ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103245D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2354)
4. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105718D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2354S1)
## Votes
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **200** (pass) · legislature
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105718D-S1 — **980** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Nick Rush — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-16** Presented and ordered printed 17103245D `introduction`
- **2017-01-16** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-22** Committee substitute agreed to 17105718D-S1
- **2017-02-22** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2354S1
- **2017-02-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-23** Senate substitute agreed to by House 17105718D-S1 (98-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
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 515 (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/de58bcec-8876-4fc8-8627-27817305aa37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).