republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2474.md

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Bill	Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; established, report.	Creates the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to improve the transportation into, from, within, and through Southwest Virginia; assist in regional economic development; and generally enhance highway safety in the affected localities through development of a proposed Coalfields Expressway. The bill regulates the membership and duties of the Authority.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2474	Virginia HB 2474 (2017)	bill	Authorities Counties Cities and Towns Study Commissions Committees and Reports	enacted	Todd E. Pillion	4	17	8	2017-01-20	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/c123b9fe-8d31-4c42-8434-ebf55813224e	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2474	c4c6186dd94c65835172a2e74400970570fd84757e321e6ad51fa0f9f9d34176	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2474 (2017) — Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; established, report.

Creates the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to improve the transportation into, from, within, and through Southwest Virginia; assist in regional economic development; and generally enhance highway safety in the affected localities through development of a proposed Coalfields Expressway. The bill regulates the membership and duties of the Authority.

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2474ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Committee substitute printed 17105017D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Presented and ordered printed 17103458D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Transportation — 13–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Transportation with substitute — 19–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 96–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 6–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
• A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — cosponsor (person)
• Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
• Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-20 Presented and ordered printed 17103458D introduction
• 2017-01-20 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #4 referral-committee
• 2017-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee substitute agreed to 17105017D-H1
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2474H1
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-02-20 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-23 Enrolled
• 2017-02-23 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-02-24 Signed by President
• 2017-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
• 2017-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 543 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c123b9fe-8d31-4c42-8434-ebf55813224e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).