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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Zoning appeals, board of; appointments."
+description: "Board of zoning appeals; appointments. Providesan exception to the general rule that an elected official cannotbe appointed to a board of zoning appeals by allowing an electedofficial from a town to serve on the board of zoning appeals of thecounty in which the member also resides."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 1898"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1898 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Danica A. Roem"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2021-01-08"
+last_action: "2021-03-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a1062c9-d046-4006-96a9-38eb649faf3f"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1898"
+source_hash: "088e2b5574e461e97e923bcba06c18a0d5b3ba6b5fcaed46971d6fea5a8d16e6"
+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 1898 (2021) — Zoning appeals, board of; appointments.
+
+Board of zoning appeals; appointments. Providesan exception to the general rule that an elected official cannotbe appointed to a board of zoning appeals by allowing an electedofficial from a town to serve on the board of zoning appeals of thecounty in which the member also resides.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0355** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0355)
+2. **HB1898ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1898ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101006D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1898)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) — **37–2** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N) — **7–1** (pass) · lower
+- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Passage (96-Y 4-N) — **95–4** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) — **21–1** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Danica A. Roem — primary (person)
+- James W. Morefield — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-08** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101006D `introduction`
+- **2021-01-08** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-14** Assigned CC & T sub: Land Use `referral-committee`
+- **2021-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
+- **2021-01-22** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2021-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2021-01-27** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-01-27** VOTE: Passage (96-Y 4-N)
+- **2021-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2021-01-28** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-15** Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-17** Passed Senate (37-Y 2-N) `passage`
+- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
+- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
+- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
+- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
+- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
+- **2021-03-25** Approved by Governor-Chapter 355 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a1062c9-d046-4006-96a9-38eb649faf3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+