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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Local industrial development authorities; port authority."
+description: "Permits the City Council of Chesapeake to transfer the powers of the Chesapeake Port Authority to the Chesapeake Economic Development Authority. Such transfer has the effect of dissolving the Chesapeake Port Authority."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 967"
+citation: "Virginia SB 967 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Authorities", "Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Waters of the State", "Ports and Harbors"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["John A. Cosgrove, Jr."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-03"
+last_action: "2017-02-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03b04ffd-6a59-4f45-aa97-b5a21ff90a48"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB967"
+source_hash: "495d971b818474a22624fd59443e141acf6b4bf2b6cb1efd0968b881ab8a3f72"
+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 967 (2017) — Local industrial development authorities; port authority.
+
+Permits the City Council of Chesapeake to transfer the powers of the Chesapeake Port Authority to the Chesapeake Economic Development Authority. Such transfer has the effect of dissolving the Chesapeake Port Authority.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0162)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0162)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB967ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB967ER)
+3. **Senate: Committee substitute printed 17103982D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB967S1)
+4. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102302D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB967)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Local Government with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **21–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102302D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-03** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-27** Reading of substitute waived
+- **2017-01-27** Committee substitute agreed to 17103982D-S1
+- **2017-01-27** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB967S1
+- **2017-02-02** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-02** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-03** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-14** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-14** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2017-02-16** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-16** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-17** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-17** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/17/17
+- **2017-02-17** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 24, 2017
+- **2017-02-23** Approved by Governor-Chapter 162 (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/03b04ffd-6a59-4f45-aa97-b5a21ff90a48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+