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Bill	American Revolution 250 Commission; amends membership and staffing.	American Revolution 250 Commission; membership and staffing. Amends the membership of the American Revolution 250 Commission to allow for the appointment of ex officio members who are directors of historic homes, historic sites, or National Park Service sites or former legislative members of the Commission. The bill also provides for staff of the Commission to serve as the Commission's fiscal agent. This bill is identical to SB 117.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 839	Virginia HB 839 (2024)	bill		enacted	Terry L. Austin	3	23	5	2024-01-09	2024-04-04	openstates	ocd-bill/b7745a9f-80e9-421b-85ae-f499d6d232c0	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB839	4851657db27659654cbef0964fb0e5aa4f24a52d50e4b1535d1209fcf6616ca2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 839 (2024) — American Revolution 250 Commission; amends membership and staffing.

American Revolution 250 Commission; membership and staffing. Amends the membership of the American Revolution 250 Commission to allow for the appointment of ex officio members who are directors of historic homes, historic sites, or National Park Service sites or former legislative members of the Commission. The bill also provides for staff of the Commission to serve as the Commission's fiscal agent. This bill is identical to SB 117.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. CHAP0400 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB839ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101649D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Rules (17-Y 0-N) — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Terry L. Austin — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101649D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Impact statement from DPB (HB839)
• 2024-01-26 Reported from Rules (17-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-01-30 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-01-31 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-01 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-02 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-26 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-27 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-03-04 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-04 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB839ER) passage
• 2024-03-04 Impact statement from DPB (HB839ER)
• 2024-03-04 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-07 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 400 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-04 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0400)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b7745a9f-80e9-421b-85ae-f499d6d232c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).