republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-1202.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial Space Flight Authority; development of six-year strategic plan."
description: "Requires the Executive Director of the Commercial Space Flight Authority (the Authority) to develop and present to the Authority's board of directors (the Board) every four years a six-year strategic plan for its adoption and eliminates the requirement that a strategic plan be submitted to the Governor and General Assembly every four years. The bill also clarifies that the public purpose of the Authority is to promote (i) industrial and economic development and (ii) scientific and technological research and development for the commercial space flight industry. The bill provides that the Executive Director of the Authority also serves as the Chief Executive Officer; specifies that the Governor's appointments to the Board have experience in the aerospace industry, the financial industry, higher education, or the marketing industry or in scientific research and development; and eliminates the requirement that the Board form a nonvoting advisory committee."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 1202"
citation: "Virginia SB 1202 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Authorities", "Aviation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d982e28-5eb4-4f50-9245-c4992c37030a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1202"
source_hash: "5a7510a8916336b3cc1be0e76411878efff600eddfcb9e888fdb31dbcbd7aa8d"
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 SB 1202 (2017) — Commercial Space Flight Authority; development of six-year strategic plan.

Requires the Executive Director of the Commercial Space Flight Authority (the Authority) to develop and present to the Authority's board of directors (the Board) every four years a six-year strategic plan for its adoption and eliminates the requirement that a strategic plan be submitted to the Governor and General Assembly every four years. The bill also clarifies that the public purpose of the Authority is to promote (i) industrial and economic development and (ii) scientific and technological research and development for the commercial space flight industry. The bill provides that the Executive Director of the Authority also serves as the Chief Executive Officer; specifies that the Governor's appointments to the Board have experience in the aerospace industry, the financial industry, higher education, or the marketing industry or in scientific research and development; and eliminates the requirement that the Board form a nonvoting advisory committee.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0633)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1202ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1202ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102147D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1202)
4. **Senate: Printed as engrossed 17102147D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB1202E)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House with amendment — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Science and Technology with amendment — **19–1** (pass) · legislature
- House amendment agreed to by Senate — **38–1** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Lynwood W. Lewis, Jr. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102147D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Reading of amendments waived
- **2017-01-26** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2017-01-26** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1202E
- **2017-01-26** Printed as engrossed 17102147D-E
- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Science and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-15** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-15** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2017-02-15** Passed House with amendment (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Enrolled
- **2017-02-22** Signed by President
- **2017-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/23/17
- **2017-02-23** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 633 (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/6d982e28-5eb4-4f50-9245-c4992c37030a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).