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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Boundary agreement, local; locality allowed to attach to their petitions to circuit court a GIS map."
+description: "Allows all localities, in adopting a voluntary boundary agreement, to attach to their petitions to the circuit court a Geographic Information System (GIS) map depicting the boundary change. Under current law, such use of a GIS map is permitted only regarding the boundaries of certain named localities. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1649"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1649 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Courts of Record"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hyland F. \"Buddy\" Fowler, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2018-11-27"
+last_action: "2019-03-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7786e4d0-6838-4ded-8e50-d96005802835"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1649"
+source_hash: "8026c734898e06f92470c7e1a63da26f970bf7af8b188ddb3bf14b2b9cdf4f1e"
+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 1649 (2019) — Boundary agreement, local; locality allowed to attach to their petitions to circuit court a GIS map.
+
+Allows all localities, in adopting a voluntary boundary agreement, to attach to their petitions to the circuit court a Geographic Information System (GIS) map depicting the boundary change. Under current law, such use of a GIS map is permitted only regarding the boundaries of certain named localities. This bill is identical to
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0385)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1649ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1649ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101386D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1649)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Local Government — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — primary (person)
+- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-11-27** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101386D `introduction`
+- **2018-11-27** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-22** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-24** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-01-24** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
+- **2019-01-24** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2019-01-25** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-01-25** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-20** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
+- **2019-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-14** Approved by Governor-Chapter 385 (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/7786e4d0-6838-4ded-8e50-d96005802835`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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