---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chesapeake, City of; amending charter, operating budget."
description: "Charter; City of Chesapeake; operating budget;reserves. Removes the requirement that a minimum of six percentof the total general fund revenue be reserved for emergency use andcash flow needs upon the adoption of the City of Chesapeake's annualoperating budget."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 454"
citation: "Virginia HB 454 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barry D. Knight"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2022-01-11"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59c68c3e-47ff-4482-b515-d43ca9704f73"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB454"
source_hash: "a570893b3a4685af3d79b7c976c4d234dc24dc771df7b5d63a3b9801c645a459"
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 454 (2022) — Chesapeake, City of; amending charter, operating budget.

Charter; City of Chesapeake; operating budget;reserves. Removes the requirement that a minimum of six percentof the total general fund revenue be reserved for emergency use andcash flow needs upon the adoption of the City of Chesapeake's annualoperating budget.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0280** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0280)
2. **HB454ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB454ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100938D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB454)

## Votes

- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barry D. Knight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100938D `introduction`
- **2022-01-11** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-28** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Read third time and passed House Block Vote (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-03** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2022-02-03** Passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-03** VOTE: Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-04** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Passed by temporarily
- **2022-03-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **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
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 280 (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/59c68c3e-47ff-4482-b515-d43ca9704f73`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).