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type: "Bill"
title: "Commonwealth's Twenty marksmanship award."
description: "Provides for the Commonwealth's Twenty marksmanship award to recognize the top 20 marksmen in Virginia, chosen from the Virginia state residents who compete at the annual Virginia State Championship matches sanctioned by the Virginia Shooting Sports Association. Under current law, the award recognizes the top 20 competitors in each of the rifle and pistol Excellence-in-Competition matches at such Championships."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 989"
citation: "Virginia SB 989 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Emergency Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["William M. Stanley, Jr."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-02-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f158ea97-2d5a-43ff-ad9c-6bc8b0e4350e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB989"
source_hash: "b245362aafab47e8d03e5358076b82260348757a6b61aaf69f3c0306c521edaf"
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 989 (2017) — Commonwealth's Twenty marksmanship award.
Provides for the Commonwealth's Twenty marksmanship award to recognize the top 20 marksmen in Virginia, chosen from the Virginia state residents who compete at the annual Virginia State Championship matches sanctioned by the Virginia Shooting Sports Association. Under current law, the award recognizes the top 20 competitors in each of the rifle and pistol Excellence-in-Competition matches at such Championships.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0224)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0224)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB989ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB989ER)
3. **Senate: Floor substitute printed 17104462D-S1 (Stanley)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB989S1)
4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102107D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB989)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Militia, Police and Public Safety — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendments — **140** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- William M. Stanley, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102107D `introduction`
- **2017-01-03** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-19** Floor substitute printed 17104462D-S1 (Stanley)
- **2017-01-19** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-19** Reading of amendments waived
- **2017-01-19** Committee amendments rejected
- **2017-01-19** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-01-19** Substitute by Senator Stanley agreed to 17104462D-S1
- **2017-01-19** Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB989S1
- **2017-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-30** Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety `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 224 (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/f158ea97-2d5a-43ff-ad9c-6bc8b0e4350e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).