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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; established, report."
description: "Creates the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to improve the transportation into, from, within, and through Southwest Virginia; assist in regional economic development; and generally enhance highway safety in the affected localities through development of a proposed Coalfields Expressway. The bill regulates the membership and duties of the Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 2474"
citation: "Virginia HB 2474 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Authorities", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Todd E. Pillion"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-01-20"
last_action: "2017-03-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c123b9fe-8d31-4c42-8434-ebf55813224e"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2474"
source_hash: "c4c6186dd94c65835172a2e74400970570fd84757e321e6ad51fa0f9f9d34176"
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 2474 (2017) — Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority; established, report.
Creates the Virginia Coalfields Expressway Authority to improve the transportation into, from, within, and through Southwest Virginia; assist in regional economic development; and generally enhance highway safety in the affected localities through development of a proposed Coalfields Expressway. The bill regulates the membership and duties of the Authority.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0543)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0543)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2474ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2474ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17105017D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2474H1)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 17103458D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB2474)
## Votes
- Reported from Transportation — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Transportation with substitute — **190** (pass) · legislature
- Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **960** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **60** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Todd E. Pillion — primary (person)
- A. Benton "Ben" Chafin — cosponsor (person)
- Israel D. O'Quinn — cosponsor (person)
- Terry G. Kilgore — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-20** Presented and ordered printed 17103458D `introduction`
- **2017-01-20** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Assigned Transportation sub: Subcommittee #4 `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-02-06** Committee substitute agreed to 17105017D-H1
- **2017-02-06** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2474H1
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **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
- **2017-03-16** Approved by Governor-Chapter 543 (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/c123b9fe-8d31-4c42-8434-ebf55813224e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).