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type: "Bill"
title: "Commonwealth of Virginia Institutions of Higher Education Bond Act of 2018; created."
description: "Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $21 million for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 766"
citation: "Virginia HB 766 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["S. Chris Jones"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6b59690b-0810-42b2-a6cb-5839007d4f55"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB766"
source_hash: "2708ff942ae583f4a1f816770e58dc327f3115b4135d9d8b542ed39461cd342b"
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 766 (2018) — Commonwealth of Virginia Institutions of Higher Education Bond Act of 2018; created.
Authorizes issuance of bonds in an amount up to $21 million for revenue-producing capital projects at institutions of higher education. The bill contains an emergency clause. This bill is identical to
## 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 (HB766ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB766ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101951D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB766)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Finance — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Appropriations — **220** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- S. Chris Jones — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/10/18 18101951D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay `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 on Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-28** Signed by President
- **2018-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** Approved by Governor-Chapter 285 (effective 3/9/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6b59690b-0810-42b2-a6cb-5839007d4f55`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).