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Bill Arts and cultural districts. Provides that arts and cultural districts may be created jointly by two or more localities. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 SB 1225 Virginia SB 1225 (2017)
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Arts and Humanities
Counties
Cities and Towns
enacted
George L. Barker
3 17 6 2017-01-10 2017-02-23 openstates ocd-bill/51fbd895-3016-452d-acca-0230837b16a0 http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB1225 5c4b54ee2393009f9bcd90878a76eb6f68e843d39151a4917f2475229d85e4e7 2026-07-01 https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump 2026-07-06 reported
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Virginia SB 1225 (2017) — Arts and cultural districts.

Provides that arts and cultural districts may be created jointly by two or more localities. 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 (CHAP0217) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1225ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102989D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — 210 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 980 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed Senate — 390 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Local Government — 120 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting — 100 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • George L. Barker — primary (person)
  • Jennifer L. McClellan — cosponsor (person)
  • Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
  • T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102989D introduction
  • 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
  • 2017-01-20 Passed by for the day
  • 2017-01-23 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
  • 2017-01-31 Placed on Calendar
  • 2017-01-31 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-01-31 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
  • 2017-02-03 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
  • 2017-02-13 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-02-14 Read third time reading-3
  • 2017-02-14 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2017-02-16 Enrolled
  • 2017-02-16 Signed by Speaker
  • 2017-02-17 Signed by President
  • 2017-02-17 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
  • 2017-02-17 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
  • 2017-02-23 Approved by Governor-Chapter 217 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51fbd895-3016-452d-acca-0230837b16a0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).