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type: "Bill"
title: "Eminent domain; empanelment of commissioners."
description: "Increases from at least six to at least eight the number of names of qualified persons each party shall submit to the court if they cannot agree upon five to nine qualified persons to act as commissioners. The bill also increases from nine to thirteen the number of names the court shall select as potential commissioners from the submitted lists."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1564"
citation: "Virginia HB 1564 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Eminent Domain"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David E. Yancey"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-19"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/40ebf084-1de3-4aac-97a6-4e70e13e0a52"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1564"
source_hash: "215dafdd6f9b31924c292c7020b6c97af44023e990886082f7f7190f398e034b"
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 HB 1564 (2018) — Eminent domain; empanelment of commissioners.
Increases from at least six to at least eight the number of names of qualified persons each party shall submit to the court if they cannot agree upon five to nine qualified persons to act as commissioners. The bill also increases from nine to thirteen the number of names the court shall select as potential commissioners from the submitted lists.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1564ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1564ER)
2. **House: Presented and ordered printed 18105556D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1564)
## Votes
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **180** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **121** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **373** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- David E. Yancey — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-19** Presented and ordered printed 18105556D `introduction`
- **2018-01-19** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 158 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/40ebf084-1de3-4aac-97a6-4e70e13e0a52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).