Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/va/2019/hb-2139.md

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Transfer of development rights; specified sending and receiving areas."
+description: "Transfer of development rights; specified sending and receiving areas."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2139"
+citation: "Virginia HB 2139 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Robert M. \"Bob\" Thomas, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 17
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2019-01-08"
+last_action: "2019-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/aa6efa89-9aee-41f5-b491-738a70aeb462"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2139"
+source_hash: "45b49b94c9cff1afcf142602ecb8b80595e5c400eb490233195d9e1bc7f1cac6"
+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 2139 (2019) — Transfer of development rights; specified sending and receiving areas.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0701)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0701)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2139ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2139ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101605D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2139)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **20–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Local Government — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Robert M. "Bob" Thomas, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101605D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-08** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `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
+- **2019-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 701 (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/aa6efa89-9aee-41f5-b491-738a70aeb462`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+