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Bill	Secondary state highways; six-year plan, public meeting.	Limits the requirement that a governing body with a six-year plan for improving the secondary highway system advertise for and hold a public meeting regarding such plan to only those years in which the county has a proposed new funding allocation greater than $100,000. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2019	HB 2578	Virginia HB 2578 (2019)	bill	Counties Cities and Towns Highways Bridges and Ferries	enacted	Kenneth R. Plum	3	17	7	2019-01-09	2019-03-14	openstates	ocd-bill/e1bf1102-289d-44bf-af38-e7d6a7a5cbdc	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2578	917c5b0f5e06f0c444fed579d83869a6762fc6c76befc1f2307337c4a88ec343	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2578 (2019) — Secondary state highways; six-year plan, public meeting.

Limits the requirement that a governing body with a six-year plan for improving the secondary highway system advertise for and hold a public meeting regarding such plan to only those years in which the county has a proposed new funding allocation greater than $100,000. 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 (CHAP0400) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2578ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103260D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Transportation — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Transportation — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House BLOCK VOTE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kenneth R. Plum — primary (person)
• Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
• Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103260D introduction
• 2019-01-09 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2019-01-18 Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2019-01-31 Read first time reading-1
• 2019-02-01 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2019-02-04 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2019-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2019-02-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2019-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2019-02-05 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2019-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2019-02-21 Enrolled
• 2019-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2019-02-21 Signed by President
• 2019-02-28 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
• 2019-02-28 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
• 2019-03-14 Approved by Governor-Chapter 400 (effective 7/1/19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e1bf1102-289d-44bf-af38-e7d6a7a5cbdc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).