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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "County board of supervisors; presiding officers, terminology."
+description: "Presiding officer of county board of supervisors; terminology. Specifies that the presiding officer of a board of supervisors shall be called \"chairman,\" \"chairwoman,\" \"chair,\" \"chairperson,\" or \"chair-at-large,\" in the presiding officer's discretion."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 738"
+citation: "Virginia HB 738 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["David A. Reid"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-06"
+last_action: "2020-03-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ad78e20-9dad-4d82-8891-138eb49395b5"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB738"
+source_hash: "eb9354ce9eb0fdd1ab6837711925062b60aaf4aad327f3e32c14bdb627961994"
+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 738 (2020) — County board of supervisors; presiding officers, terminology.
+
+Presiding officer of county board of supervisors; terminology. Specifies that the presiding officer of a board of supervisors shall be called "chairman," "chairwoman," "chair," "chairperson," or "chair-at-large," in the presiding officer's discretion.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0133)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB738ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB738ER)
+3. **Engrossed by House as amended HB738E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB738E)
+4. **Impact statement from DHCD (HB738)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB738)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) — **36–3** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments (20-Y 1-N) — **20–1** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 2-N) — **5–2** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (91-Y 8-N) — **90–8** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- David A. Reid — primary (person)
+- Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
+- Jill Holtzman Vogel — cosponsor (person)
+- John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
+- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
+- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
+- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
+- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
+- Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
+- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100981D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-06** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-18** Impact statement from DHCD (HB738)
+- **2020-01-21** Assigned CC & T sub: Charters `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 2-N)
+- **2020-01-31** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2020-01-31** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments (20-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-05** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-05** Committee amendments agreed to
+- **2020-02-05** Engrossed by House as amended HB738E
+- **2020-02-05** Printed as engrossed 20100981D-E
+- **2020-02-06** Read third time and passed House (91-Y 8-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-06** VOTE: Passage (91-Y 8-N)
+- **2020-02-07** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-02-07** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-19** Passed by temporarily
+- **2020-02-19** Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-21** Enrolled
+- **2020-02-21** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-02-24** Signed by President
+- **2020-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2020
+- **2020-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 4, 2020
+- **2020-03-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 133 (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/5ad78e20-9dad-4d82-8891-138eb49395b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+