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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; change in membership."
+description: "Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; membership. Decreases from five to four the number of members of the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority appointed by the Mayor of the City of Richmond and adds to the Authority one member of the City Council of the City of Richmond appointed by the president of the Council. This bill is identical to SB 726."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 538"
+citation: "Virginia HB 538 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Betsy B. Carr"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-05"
+last_action: "2020-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f5836fb-a821-485b-ae2d-76bd2652560c"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB538"
+source_hash: "b163907681e9fb2a5bf3417ed95b0dacbcbe66bedb2d3a0f5e9f1647494b1866"
+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 538 (2020) — Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; change in membership.
+
+Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; membership. Decreases from five to four the number of members of the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority appointed by the Mayor of the City of Richmond and adds to the Authority one member of the City Council of the City of Richmond appointed by the president of the Council. This bill is identical to SB 726.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0371)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0371)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB538ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB538ER)
+3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB538)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB538)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N) — **10–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Transportation (12-Y 0-N) — **12–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Betsy B. Carr — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102239D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-05** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-14** Assigned Transportation sub: Transportation Systems `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-16** Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (HB538)
+- **2020-01-21** Reported from Transportation (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-01-27** VOTE: (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-01-28** Referred to Committee on Transportation `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Reported from Transportation (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-03-03** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-03-06** Enrolled
+- **2020-03-06** Impact statement from DPB (HB538ER)
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-03-06** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
+- **2020-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 371 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f5836fb-a821-485b-ae2d-76bd2652560c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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