---
type: "Bill"
title: "Newport News, City of; amending charter, real estate assessment."
description: "Newport News, City of; amending charter, real estate assessment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 829"
citation: "Virginia SB 829 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Locke"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-12-22"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87122bf6-f4de-4955-b94d-53afa96d4823"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB829"
source_hash: "407be6000ac828c210857d33564b837fc2efcdd01161986986acff9486c886e0"
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 829 (2023) — Newport News, City of; amending charter, real estate assessment.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0065** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0065)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101115D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB829)
3. **SB829ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB829ER)

## Votes

- Reported from Local Government (12-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- House amendment agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Locke — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-12-22** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23101115D `filing, introduction`
- **2022-12-22** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** Reported from Local Government (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-01-26** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-10** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2023-02-15** Passed House with amendment (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-17** House amendment agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-22** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-22** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB829ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 65 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0065)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87122bf6-f4de-4955-b94d-53afa96d4823`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).