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type: "Bill"
title: "Personnel Management Information System; state agency positions designated as sensitive."
description: "Requires each state agency to continue to record in the Personnel Management Information System (PMIS) positions that it has designated as sensitive to ensure that the Department of Human Resources Management has a list of all such positions. The bill clarifies who would be subject to a criminal background investigation in a sensitive position. The bill expands the definition of sensitive position to include those positions (i) responsible for the health, safety, and welfare of citizens or the protection of critical infrastructures; (ii) that have access to sensitive information, including access to Federal Tax Information in approved exchange agreements with the Internal Revenue Service or Social Security Administration; and (iii) that are otherwise required by state or federal law to be designated as sensitive. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2391"
citation: "Virginia HB 2391 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Criminal Procedure", "Emergency Legislation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["N.D. \"Rocky\" Holcomb III"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ce85da4-d44f-4270-a3ce-9b7d1901759b"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2391"
source_hash: "12543f626dfac7a986efdff5e5bd268cac22ec5f332c7ffbfa8d6516b101fc7f"
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 2391 (2017) — Personnel Management Information System; state agency positions designated as sensitive.
Requires each state agency to continue to record in the Personnel Management Information System (PMIS) positions that it has designated as sensitive to ensure that the Department of Human Resources Management has a list of all such positions. The bill clarifies who would be subject to a criminal background investigation in a sensitive position. The bill expands the definition of sensitive position to include those positions (i) responsible for the health, safety, and welfare of citizens or the protection of critical infrastructures; (ii) that have access to sensitive information, including access to Federal Tax Information in approved exchange agreements with the Internal Revenue Service or Social Security Administration; and (iii) that are otherwise required by state or federal law to be designated as sensitive. 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 (CHAP0421)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0421)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2391ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2391ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 17104157D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2391)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **100** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — **200** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- N.D. "Rocky" Holcomb III — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-18** Presented and ordered printed with emergency clause 17104157D `introduction`
- **2017-01-18** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `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 (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`
- **2017-02-16** 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 421 (effective 3/13/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ce85da4-d44f-4270-a3ce-9b7d1901759b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).