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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Noise violations; civil penalty."
+description: "Allows localities to authorize the chief law-enforcement officer in the locality to enforce a uniform schedule of civil penalties for violation of that locality's noise ordinance."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 926"
+citation: "Virginia SB 926 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Police"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["J. Chapman Petersen"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2016-12-27"
+last_action: "2017-03-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1029cc54-1929-4afe-8f14-a448be2705b2"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB926"
+source_hash: "f1e5dae2293d0912a2db10f167eb04c13b989df90d2b2008252d8b212e0a5808"
+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 SB 926 (2017) — Noise violations; civil penalty.
+
+Allows localities to authorize the chief law-enforcement officer in the locality to enforce a uniform schedule of civil penalties for violation of that locality's noise ordinance.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0649)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0649)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB926ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB926ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101888D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB926)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Local Government — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **22–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- J. Chapman Petersen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-12-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101888D `introduction`
+- **2016-12-27** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-20** Passed by for the day
+- **2017-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-03** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2017-02-24** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-24** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-28** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/28/17
+- **2017-02-28** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 649 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1029cc54-1929-4afe-8f14-a448be2705b2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+