republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-517.md

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Bill	Chief Resilience Officer; clarifies designation and role.	Chief Resilience Officer. Clarifies the designation and role of the Chief Resilience Officer by moving the position from under the responsibility of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and adding provisions related to the role of the Chief Resilience Officer in creating and overseeing the implementation of a Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan and a Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Plan. Under current law, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources is designated the Chief Resilience Officer. This bill is a Chesapeake Bay Commission initiative.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 517	Virginia HB 517 (2022)	bill		enacted	David L. Bulova	4	44	11	2022-01-11	2022-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/03a93971-ac3f-402e-a68a-c374bc61f44a	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB517	f2df2ab30eb2f05dfb44b6117df128b4193b0eba70c506dbcbfdb6b67afb4336	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 517 (2022) — Chief Resilience Officer; clarifies designation and role.

Chief Resilience Officer. Clarifies the designation and role of the Chief Resilience Officer by moving the position from under the responsibility of the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and adding provisions related to the role of the Chief Resilience Officer in creating and overseeing the implementation of a Virginia Flood Protection Master Plan and a Virginia Coastal Resilience Master Plan. Under current law, the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources is designated the Chief Resilience Officer. This bill is a Chesapeake Bay Commission initiative.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. CHAP0786 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB517ER (committee substitute) — source
3. HB517ER2 (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103791D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #1 (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David L. Bulova — primary (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22103791D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Public Safety referral-committee
• 2022-01-25 Assigned PS sub: Subcommittee #1 referral-committee
• 2022-01-27 Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-27 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2022-01-28 Reported from Public Safety (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-28 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-29 Assigned App. sub: Commerce Agriculture & Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2022-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (HB517)
• 2022-02-09 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-09 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-11 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-14 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-15 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-15 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-16 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2022-03-02 Reported from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-02 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-03-03 Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-07 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-08 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-08 Committee amendment rejected
• 2022-03-08 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-10 Enrolled
• 2022-03-10 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-11 Impact statement from DPB (HB517ER)
• 2022-03-11 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by House
• 2022-04-27 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-04-27 House concurred in Governor's recommendation #1 (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 Motion to pass by Governor's recommendation #2 agreed to
• 2022-04-27 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation #1 (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 Governor's recommendation adopted in-part
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled bill text (HB517ER2)
• 2022-04-27 Signed by President as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Communicated to Governor on April 27, 2022
• 2022-04-27 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 27, 2022
• 2022-05-27 Approved by Governor-Chapter 786 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03a93971-ac3f-402e-a68a-c374bc61f44a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).