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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Historical African American cemeteries; adds two cemeteries in Pulaski County."
description: "Historical African American cemeteries; adds two cemeteries in Pulaski County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 1973"
citation: "Virginia HB 1973 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Conservation", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Ethnic Groups", "Religious and Charitable Matters; Cemeteries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris L. Hurst"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dae7950-0a32-4ac6-88c1-5aa0c568c01f"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1973"
source_hash: "db1263517d6a1ddc263608dbd38895824eeccd544ed3ce3c528abc510e14a1eb"
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 1973 (2019) — Historical African American cemeteries; adds two cemeteries in Pulaski County.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0184)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0184)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1973ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1973ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103745D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1973)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **970** (pass) · lower
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance — **160** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chris L. Hurst — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103745D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Assigned ACNR sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2019-02-04** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Rereferred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Enrolled
- **2019-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 184 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1dae7950-0a32-4ac6-88c1-5aa0c568c01f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).