republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2364.md

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Bill	Public officers; automatic suspension upon conviction of felony.	Provides that any officer who is convicted of a felony under the laws of any state or the United States shall be automatically suspended upon such conviction, regardless of any appeals, pleadings, delays, or motions. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2364	Virginia HB 2364 (2017)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Crimes and Offenses Generally Elections Emergency Legislation	enacted	Steve E. Heretick	4	23	6	2017-01-16	2017-03-13	openstates	ocd-bill/c6ec18f4-2aab-487a-8b7f-38885e8be2d4	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2364	e077b09e700734c85bb60fc6c6bedefe151fe7467ea190c9d3c1d2fca0b7500d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2364 (2017) — Public officers; automatic suspension upon conviction of felony.

Provides that any officer who is convicted of a felony under the laws of any state or the United States shall be automatically suspended upon such conviction, regardless of any appeals, pleadings, delays, or motions. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill 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 (CHAP0354) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2364ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Presented and ordered printed 17104186D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17104186D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendments — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Privileges and Elections — 14–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 95–1 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 7–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Steve E. Heretick — primary (person)
• Jennifer B. Boysko — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Mark J. Peake — cosponsor (person)
• Matthew James — cosponsor (person)
• Richard L. Anderson — cosponsor (person)
• S. Chris Jones — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-16 Presented and ordered printed 17104186D introduction
• 2017-01-16 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2017-01-18 Assigned P & E sub: Campaigns referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-01 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-02 Passed by for the day
• 2017-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-03 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-03 Amendment by Delegate Jones agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-02-03 Emergency clause added
• 2017-02-03 Engrossed by House as amended HB2364E
• 2017-02-03 Printed as engrossed 17104186D-E
• 2017-02-06 Read third time and passed House (95-Y 1-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-07 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-21 Enrolled
• 2017-02-21 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 354 (effective 3/13/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c6ec18f4-2aab-487a-8b7f-38885e8be2d4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).