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type: "Bill"
title: "Parole Board; voting requirements."
description: "Parole Board; voting requirements. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, if the Parole Board adopts a rule or regulation requiring the concurrence of four or more members of the Board to grant discretionary parole or conditional release, in the event that there are less than four members but at least three members on the Parole Board, then such requirement shall be satisfied upon a unanimous vote of the members on the Board."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 913"
citation: "Virginia HB 913 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Irene Shin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a689d34-e013-4e32-9070-ae4abf4da2f3"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB913"
source_hash: "d229ca88c0e9bda9cfa11cc573a154d27f55ef6996e044529c0bfd58728d440a"
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 913 (2024) — Parole Board; voting requirements.
Parole Board; voting requirements. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, if the Parole Board adopts a rule or regulation requiring the concurrence of four or more members of the Board to grant discretionary parole or conditional release, in the event that there are less than four members but at least three members on the Parole Board, then such requirement shall be satisfied upon a unanimous vote of the members on the Board.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0458** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0458)
2. **HB913ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB913ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100146D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB913)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N) — **51** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (83-Y 16-N) — **8216** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Irene Shin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100146D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Impact statement from DPB (HB913)
- **2024-01-19** Assigned PS sub: Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N)
- **2024-01-26** Reported from Public Safety (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-31** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Read third time and passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-02** Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Reported from Rehabilitation and Social Services with amendments (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2024-03-05** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Reading of amendments waived
- **2024-03-05** Committee amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-05** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2024-03-05** Passed Senate with amendments (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Senate amendments agreed to by House (83-Y 16-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-06** VOTE: Adoption (83-Y 16-N)
- **2024-03-25** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-25** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB913ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-25** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-26** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-04** Impact statement from DPB (HB913ER)
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 458 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0458)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a689d34-e013-4e32-9070-ae4abf4da2f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).