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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Chesapeake, City of; amending charter, dates of elections, etc."
+description: "Charter; City of Chesapeake. Amends the charter for the City of Chesapeake to clarify the dates for (i) the election and terms of members of council and the mayor, (ii) when a sitting council member must resign when running for mayor, and (iii) the election of a successor in the event of a vacancy in office. This bill is identical to SB 935."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 1645"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1645 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 24
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-03"
+last_action: "2025-03-18"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5422f75-5b5f-4483-a3d5-d125c4457d1b"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1645"
+source_hash: "1efb41f024c194ed9fdc7fd61ce24dd6e0735ae2426151b9b3e4fe2d6e3ea15b"
+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 1645 (2025) — Chesapeake, City of; amending charter, dates of elections, etc.
+
+Charter; City of Chesapeake. Amends the charter for the City of Chesapeake to clarify the dates for (i) the election and terms of members of council and the mayor, (ii) when a sitting council member must resign when running for mayor, and (iii) the election of a successor in the event of a vacancy in office. This bill is identical to SB 935.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1012469.PDF)
+2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1070934.PDF)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1049935.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-03** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102265D `filing, introduction`
+- **2025-01-03** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-13** Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-15** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-01-17** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2025-01-23** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
+- **2025-01-24** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-10** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2025-02-11** Rules suspended
+- **2025-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2025-02-11** Passed by for the day
+- **2025-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-12** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2025-02-17** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2025-02-17** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1645ER) `passage`
+- **2025-02-17** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 9 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-18** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0009)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5422f75-5b5f-4483-a3d5-d125c4457d1b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+