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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Roanoke Higher Education Authority; removes president of Bluefield College from board of trustees."
description: "Removes the president of Bluefield College from the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2379"
citation: "Virginia HB 2379 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Christopher T. Head"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2017-01-17"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91ff3f51-e3dc-4499-86d7-2bdda0c68ed7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2379"
source_hash: "f2f2bd1c5b5aaa38a4e497169935c1d16f64551675b2830213c64de7620e3168"
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 2379 (2017) — Roanoke Higher Education Authority; removes president of Bluefield College from board of trustees.
Removes the president of Bluefield College from the board of trustees of the Roanoke Higher Education Authority. 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 (CHAP0324)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0324)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2379ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2379ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103341D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2379)
## Votes
- Reported from Education — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Education and Health — **150** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Christopher T. Head — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 17103341D `introduction`
- **2017-01-17** Referred to Committee on Education `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-27** Referred to Committee on Education and Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-23** Enrolled
- **2017-02-23** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 324 (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/91ff3f51-e3dc-4499-86d7-2bdda0c68ed7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).