---
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: "HB 1962"
citation: "Virginia HB 1962 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mullin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96d92135-6cb6-4f7c-9e6b-8f2d03f8da09"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1962"
source_hash: "64b0bd1e6b84d91de3baffe6d00543b25683376b19b2e356efdbfcc6d70f18f8"
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 1962 (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. **CHAP0064** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0064)
2. **HB1962ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1962ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100800D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1962)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Mullin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100800D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-27** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-03** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2023-02-13** Reported from Local Government with amendment (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Reading of amendment waived
- **2023-02-15** Committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-15** Engrossed by Senate as amended
- **2023-02-15** Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Senate amendment agreed to by House (98-Y 0-N) `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-17** VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-22** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-22** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1962ER) `passage`
- **2023-02-22** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 64 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0064)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96d92135-6cb6-4f7c-9e6b-8f2d03f8da09`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).