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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance, Office of, and Broadband Advisory Council; expiration."
description: "Extends the expiration of the Office of Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2021. The bill also repeals the expiration of the Broadband Advisory Council, and alters and expands from 14 to 17 its total membership. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2541"
citation: "Virginia HB 2541 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kathy J. Byron"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b9c5c5de-459e-494b-9b9d-0deb58ef3c2c"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2541"
source_hash: "a54fc8cba69cf28ee97978685877083136251da82ddc0d28b11b999beb028f12"
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 2541 (2019) — Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance, Office of, and Broadband Advisory Council; expiration.
Extends the expiration of the Office of Telework Promotion and Broadband Assistance from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2021. The bill also repeals the expiration of the Broadband Advisory Council, and alters and expands from 14 to 17 its total membership. 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 (CHAP0709)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0709)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2541AH)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2541ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2541ER)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100848D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2541)
5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19100848D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2541E)
6. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106718D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2541S1)
## Votes
- Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106718D-S1 — **970** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate with substitute — **400** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Science and Technology with amendments — **211** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Kathy J. Byron — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19100848D `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** Referred to Committee on Science and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-01** Engrossed by House as amended HB2541E
- **2019-02-01** Printed as engrossed 19100848D-E
- **2019-02-04** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-05** Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Reading of substitute waived
- **2019-02-14** Committee substitute agreed to 19106718D-S1
- **2019-02-14** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB2541S1
- **2019-02-18** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Senate substitute agreed to by House 19106718D-S1 (97-Y 0-N)
- **2019-02-21** Enrolled
- **2019-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-21** Signed by President
- **2019-02-28** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 28, 2019
- **2019-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 709 (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/b9c5c5de-459e-494b-9b9d-0deb58ef3c2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).