republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/sb-907.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Higher educational institutions, public; certain positions require residency of the Commonwealth.	Requires the president or any one of the vice presidents of the board of visitors of Virginia Military Institute, the chairman or the vice-chairman of the State Board, and the rector or vice-rector of the governing board of each other public institution of higher education to be a resident of the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	SB 907	Virginia SB 907 (2017)	bill		enacted	Scott A. Surovell	8	39	11	2016-12-26	2017-03-27	openstates	ocd-bill/7b4e8b40-3793-4843-8e7e-5aa515d18d3f	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB907	42624488a1115b9065123e6c262243469ad40a674d8dc3772d20721bb73f5c82	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 907 (2017) — Higher educational institutions, public; certain positions require residency of the Commonwealth.

Requires the president or any one of the vice presidents of the board of visitors of Virginia Military Institute, the chairman or the vice-chairman of the State Board, and the rector or vice-rector of the governing board of each other public institution of higher education to be a resident of the Commonwealth. 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 (CHAP0766) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Committee substitute printed 17105261D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB907ER) (committee substitute) — source
4. Senate: Committee substitute printed 17104692D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate: Conference substitute printed 17105797D-S2 (committee substitute) — source
6. Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102300D (committee substitute) — source
7. Senate: Printed as engrossed 17104692D-ES1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Senate: Printed as reengrossed 17104692D-E2S1 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Education with substitute — 15–6 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Education and Health with substitute — 14–1 (pass) · legislature
• Engrossment reconsidered by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• House substitute rejected by Senate — 0–40 (fail) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by House — 57–37 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate acceded to request — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 35–5 (pass) · legislature
• Passed Senate — 35–5 (pass) · legislature
• Passed House with substitute — 61–34 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Scott A. Surovell — primary (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-26 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102300D introduction
• 2016-12-26 Referred to Committee on Education and Health referral-committee
• 2017-01-23 Assigned Education sub: Higher Education referral-committee
• 2017-01-30 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2017-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-01-31 Reading of substitute waived
• 2017-01-31 Committee substitute agreed to 17104692D-S1
• 2017-01-31 Reading of amendment waived
• 2017-01-31 Amendment by Senator Norment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-01-31 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB907ES1
• 2017-01-31 Printed as engrossed 17104692D-ES1
• 2017-02-01 Reading of amendment waived
• 2017-02-01 Amendment by Senator Norment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2017-02-01 Reengrossed by Senate committee substitute w/amds SB907E2S1
• 2017-02-01 Printed as reengrossed 17104692D-E2S1
• 2017-02-01 Engrossed bill reprinted 17104692D-E2S1
• 2017-02-03 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-03 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-03 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2017-02-09 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-10 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 17105261D-H1
• 2017-02-10 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB907H1
• 2017-02-10 Passed House with substitute (61-Y 34-N) passage
• 2017-02-15 House insisted on substitute
• 2017-02-15 House requested conference committee
• 2017-02-17 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2017-02-20 Conferees appointed by House
• 2017-02-24 Amended by conference committee
• 2017-02-24 Conference substitute printed 17105797D-S2
• 2017-02-24 Passed by temporarily
• 2017-02-24 Conference report agreed to by House (57-Y 37-N)
• 2017-03-07 Enrolled
• 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-10 Signed by President
• 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
• 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 766 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b4e8b40-3793-4843-8e7e-5aa515d18d3f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).