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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia African American Advisory Board; established, report."
description: "Establishes the Virginia African American Advisory Board to advise the Governor regarding the development of economic, professional, cultural, educational, and governmental links between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the African American community in Virginia. The Board shall be composed of 21 nonlegislative citizen members of whom at least 15 must be African American. In addition, Secretaries of the Commonwealth, Commerce and Trade, Education, Health and Human Resources, and Public Safety and Homeland Security, or their designees, shall serve as ex officio members."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2767"
citation: "Virginia HB 2767 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administration of Government", "Commissions", "Boards and Institutions Generally", "Ethnic Groups", "Study Commissions", "Committees and Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-18"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b53c7386-52c3-4b76-989a-8211afe85f4d"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2767"
source_hash: "bf7ec50a5afc0b0e7579d4e19f970bf08bc16bfc99d3572f413e0fb28070730a"
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 2767 (2019) — Virginia African American Advisory Board; established, report.
Establishes the Virginia African American Advisory Board to advise the Governor regarding the development of economic, professional, cultural, educational, and governmental links between the Commonwealth of Virginia and the African American community in Virginia. The Board shall be composed of 21 nonlegislative citizen members of whom at least 15 must be African American. In addition, Secretaries of the Commonwealth, Commerce and Trade, Education, Health and Human Resources, and Public Safety and Homeland Security, or their designees, shall serve as ex officio members.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0594)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0594)
2. **House amendments adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+amd+HB2767AH)
3. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2767ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2767ER)
4. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19104147D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2767)
5. **House: Printed as engrossed 19104147D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2767E)
## Votes
- Reported from Rules with amendments — **160** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **42** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Rules — **150** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Lashrecse D. Aird — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-18** Presented and ordered printed 19104147D `introduction`
- **2019-01-18** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Assigned Rules sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-04** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2019-02-04** Engrossed by House as amended HB2767E
- **2019-02-04** Printed as engrossed 19104147D-E
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Enrolled
- **2019-02-22** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-22** Signed by President
- **2019-03-04** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 4, 2019
- **2019-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 594 (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/b53c7386-52c3-4b76-989a-8211afe85f4d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).