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| Bill | Administration, Secretary of; policy of the Commonwealth regarding state employment. | Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to promote and increase the employment of individuals with disabilities. To further this policy, the bill establishes a goal to increase by five percent the level of individuals with disabilities employed by state government by fiscal year 2023. The bill designates the Secretary of Administration to coordinate efforts to achieve the goal and requires the Secretary to establish a reporting system for tracking and reporting the progress of state agencies toward meeting the employment goals and to report annually on the number of individuals with disabilities employed by the state. The bill requires each state agency to submit a plan to increase employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities to the Secretary no later than December 31, 2017, and each July 1 thereafter. This bill is identical to | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 2425 | Virginia HB 2425 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 2425 (2017) — Administration, Secretary of; policy of the Commonwealth regarding state employment.
Provides that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to promote and increase the employment of individuals with disabilities. To further this policy, the bill establishes a goal to increase by five percent the level of individuals with disabilities employed by state government by fiscal year 2023. The bill designates the Secretary of Administration to coordinate efforts to achieve the goal and requires the Secretary to establish a reporting system for tracking and reporting the progress of state agencies toward meeting the employment goals and to report annually on the number of individuals with disabilities employed by the state. The bill requires each state agency to submit a plan to increase employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities to the Secretary no later than December 31, 2017, and each July 1 thereafter. This bill is identical to
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0358) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2425ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Presented and ordered printed 17104076D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — 10–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws — 19–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Richard L. Anderson — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas A. "Tag" Greason — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-19 Presented and ordered printed 17104076D
introduction - 2017-01-19 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 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 - 2017-02-16 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 358 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e99a0a91-60ee-4563-b9e1-4016d485e855. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).