republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/hb-2503.md

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Bill	Virginia coordinate systems; updates several references in Code.	Virginia coordinate systems; federal updates. Updates several references in Code to the Virginia Coordinate System of 2022 and aligns state law with federal changes with respect to measurement standards. The bill replaces the U.S. survey foot with the international foot. The provisions of the bill become effective upon the official release by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geodetic Survey of the State Plane Coordinate System of 2022 and certification in writing to the Virginia Code Commission that such contingency has been met. This bill is identical to SB 1173.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	HB 2503	Virginia HB 2503 (2025)	bill		enacted	Bill Wiley	6	34	9	2025-01-08	2025-03-19	openstates	ocd-bill/e3d5e34f-f407-41aa-9c4b-557998ffdca8	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2503	f0cf30f238a381438c20e1684a4ee2e03803e9359b76641667f1e87415ac3adc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2503 (2025) — Virginia coordinate systems; updates several references in Code.

Virginia coordinate systems; federal updates. Updates several references in Code to the Virginia Coordinate System of 2022 and aligns state law with federal changes with respect to measurement standards. The bill replaces the U.S. survey foot with the international foot. The provisions of the bill become effective upon the official release by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Geodetic Survey of the State Plane Coordinate System of 2022 and certification in writing to the Virginia Code Commission that such contingency has been met. This bill is identical to SB 1173.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. General Laws Amendment (committee substitute) — source
5. General Laws Subcommittee Amendment (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Rereferred from General Laws and Technology and rereferred to Transportation (10-Y 0-N) — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Reading waived (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Transportation (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bill Wiley — primary (person)
• Ian T. Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
• W. Chad Green — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100655D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-13-2025 25100655D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-08 Referred to Committee on General Laws referral-committee
• 2025-01-08 Introduced bill reprinted 25100655D
• 2025-01-27 Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process referral-committee
• 2025-01-30 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-30 Reported from General Laws with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-03 General Laws Amendment agreed to amendment-passage
• 2025-02-03 Engrossed by House as amended
• 2025-02-03 Printed as engrossed 25100655D-E
• 2025-02-04 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2503)
• 2025-02-04 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-04 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2025-02-04 Passed House (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-05 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Rereferred from General Laws and Technology to Transportation (10-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2025-02-13 Reported from Transportation (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-17 Rules suspended
• 2025-02-17 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading)
• 2025-02-17 Passed by for the day
• 2025-02-18 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-18 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-03-07 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-03-07 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2503ER) passage
• 2025-03-07 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-03-10 Signed by President passage
• 2025-03-10 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2503)
• 2025-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2025-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-19 Approved by Governor-Chapter 91 (Effective - see bill) executive-signature
• 2025-03-19 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0091)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e3d5e34f-f407-41aa-9c4b-557998ffdca8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).