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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Hopewell, City of; amending charter, appointment of president of city council."
+description: "Changes from \"election\" to \"appointment\" the term used to describe the vote of the city council for a new president and vice-president of the council. This bill is identical to"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 1191"
+citation: "Virginia SB 1191 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Charters"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rosalyn R. Dance"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 15
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2019-01-03"
+last_action: "2019-02-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3cdb090-3416-4591-9670-779cad39b661"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1191"
+source_hash: "a40d7966c4a7f452499ab11fa88347d29e36873f8d5fb95ba5d40ef9c2946b9d"
+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 1191 (2019) — Hopewell, City of; amending charter, appointment of president of city council.
+
+Changes from "election" to "appointment" the term used to describe the vote of the city council for a new president and vice-president of the council. 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 (CHAP0109)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0109)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1191ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1191ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103240D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1191)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Local Government — **10–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rosalyn R. Dance — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103240D `introduction`
+- **2019-01-03** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-30** Placed on Calendar
+- **2019-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-08** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-11** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2019-02-12** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-12** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-13** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-14** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 14, 2019
+- **2019-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2019
+- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 109 (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/f3cdb090-3416-4591-9670-779cad39b661`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+