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type: "Bill"
title: "Higher educational institutions, public; certain positions require residency of the Commonwealth."
description: "Requires the president or any one of the vice presidents of the board of visitors of Virginia Military Institute, the chairman or the vice-chairman of the State Board, and the rector or vice-rector of the governing board of each other public institution of higher education to be a resident of the Commonwealth. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1402"
citation: "Virginia HB 1402 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Educational Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Steven Landes"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 12
first_action: "2016-09-02"
last_action: "2017-03-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f1a772e-ddcc-42ee-9f25-9eca8ae16bbb"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1402"
source_hash: "09c0d64fc62d5e3f17b01b77c1f1fe90796e6df8a3f0e0def8569e3197079ae2"
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 1402 (2017) — Higher educational institutions, public; certain positions require residency of the Commonwealth.
Requires the president or any one of the vice presidents of the board of visitors of Virginia Military Institute, the chairman or the vice-chairman of the State Board, and the rector or vice-rector of the governing board of each other public institution of higher education to be a resident of the Commonwealth. 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 (CHAP0764)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0764)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1402ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1402ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104390D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1402H1)
4. **House: Conference substitute printed 17105749D-H2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1402H2)
5. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100216D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1402)
6. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17105458D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1402S1)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House — **6038** (pass) · legislature
- Conference report agreed to by House — **5936** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **391** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education with substitute — **156** (pass) · legislature
- Senate substitute rejected by House 17105458D-S1 — **095** (fail) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **2614** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Conference report agreed to by Senate — **336** (pass) · legislature
- Senate insisted on substitute — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate with substitute — **309** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health with substitute — **96** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- R. Steven Landes — primary (person)
- Charles D. Poindexter — cosponsor (person)
- Christopher K. Peace — cosponsor (person)
- Gordon C. Helsel, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- James E. Edmunds, II — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Michael J. Webert — cosponsor (person)
- R. Lee Ware — cosponsor (person)
- Richard P. Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Ronald A. Villanueva — cosponsor (person)
- Terry L. Austin — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy D. Hugo — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2016-09-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100216D `introduction`
- **2016-09-02** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-20** Assigned Education sub: Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 17104390D-H1
- **2017-01-27** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1402H1
- **2017-01-30** Read third time and passed House (60-Y 38-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-20** Reading of substitute waived
- **2017-02-20** Committee substitute agreed to 17105458D-S1
- **2017-02-20** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB1402S1
- **2017-02-21** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-21** Senate substitute rejected by House 17105458D-S1 (0-Y 95-N)
- **2017-02-22** Senate requested conference committee
- **2017-02-23** House acceded to request
- **2017-02-23** Conferees appointed by House
- **2017-02-23** Conferees appointed by Senate
- **2017-02-24** Amended by conference committee
- **2017-02-24** Conference substitute printed 17105749D-H2
- **2017-02-24** Conference report agreed to by House (59-Y 36-N)
- **2017-03-07** Enrolled
- **2017-03-07** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-03-10** Signed by President
- **2017-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
- **2017-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-27** Approved by Governor-Chapter 764 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f1a772e-ddcc-42ee-9f25-9eca8ae16bbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).