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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Virginia Beach, City of; amending charter, expands board of equalization."
+description: "Charter; City of Virginia Beach. Expands the board of equalization in the City of Virginia Beach from three to four members. This bill is identical to HB 1163."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 274"
+citation: "Virginia SB 274 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bill DeSteph"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2022-01-11"
+last_action: "2022-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/401b9dd0-b76a-42ce-bc2d-8f7c1a78ddbe"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB274"
+source_hash: "493f14ddf352dda2145c6330212053e98a89df34e3d1d1be9ccec8a90ddc629d"
+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 274 (2022) — Virginia Beach, City of; amending charter, expands board of equalization.
+
+Charter; City of Virginia Beach. Expands the board of equalization in the City of Virginia Beach from three to four members. This bill is identical to HB 1163.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0639** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0639)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102377D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB274)
+3. **SB274ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB274ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bill DeSteph — primary (person)
+- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102377D `introduction`
+- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-21** Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters `referral-committee`
+- **2022-01-31** Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-03** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2022-02-21** Placed on Calendar
+- **2022-02-21** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-21** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-25** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-01** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-02** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
+- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
+- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
+- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
+- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
+- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 639 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/401b9dd0-b76a-42ce-bc2d-8f7c1a78ddbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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