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2023 SESSION
HB 1968 "Green Book;" Department of Historic Resources to designate historic sites.
Introduced by: Michael P. Mullin | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Department of Historic Resources; Green Book historic site designations. Directs the Department of Historic Resources, in partnership with the Virginia Tourism Corporation and the Department of Transportation, to designate or approve supplementary signs for historic site signs identifying Green Book locations and businesses in the Commonwealth. The bill defines "Green Book" as The Negro Motorist Green Book published by Victor Hugo Green, which provided a list of hotels, guest houses, service stations, drug stores, taverns, barber shops, and restaurants known to be safe for traveling Black Americans during the Jim Crow era.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103271D pdf
- 01/23/23 House: Printed as engrossed 23103271D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/10/23 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103271D
- 01/10/23 House: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
- 01/18/23 House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources with amendment(s) (22-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/23 House: Read first time
- 01/23/23 House: Read second time
- 01/23/23 House: Committee amendment agreed to
- 01/23/23 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB1968E
- 01/23/23 House: Printed as engrossed 23103271D-E
- 01/24/23 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/24/23 House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- 01/25/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/25/23 Senate: Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources