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type: "Bill"
title: "State Inspector General, Office of the; \"state agency\" includes any local dept. of social services."
description: "Extends the jurisdiction of the Office of the State Inspector General by amending the definition of \"state agency\" to include any local department of social services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2237"
citation: "Virginia HB 2237 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Welfare (Social Services)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Benjamin L. Cline"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-11"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ec69dde5-4c5b-4aca-826c-cf015f048224"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2237"
source_hash: "83e6d4e0596a3efac1e6fc6cae813b8a83bec4460a5441b64cd4280f4e230fe2"
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 2237 (2017) — State Inspector General, Office of the; "state agency" includes any local dept. of social services.
Extends the jurisdiction of the Office of the State Inspector General by amending the definition of "state agency" to include any local department of social services.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0590)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0590)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2237ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2237ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103056D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2237)
4. **House: Printed as engrossed 17103056D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2237E)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Senate receded from amendment — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with amendment — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · legislature
- Senate amendment rejected by House — **0100** (fail) · legislature
- Passed Senate with amendment — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from General Laws with amendment — **200** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Benjamin L. Cline — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103056D `introduction`
- **2017-01-11** Referred to Committee on General Laws `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-18** Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House as amended HB2237E
- **2017-02-06** Printed as engrossed 17103056D-E
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-22** Reading of amendment waived
- **2017-02-22** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2017-02-22** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2017-02-23** Placed on Calendar
- **2017-02-23** Senate amendment rejected by House (0-Y 100-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
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 590 (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/ec69dde5-4c5b-4aca-826c-cf015f048224`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).