---
type: "Bill"
title: "Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; directors."
description: "Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; directors. Provides that the board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority may hire directors, rather than an executive director, to carry out various duties of the Authority."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1756"
citation: "Virginia HB 1756 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James W. Morefield"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-01-05"
last_action: "2025-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79c857b3-84d0-4e88-bc81-dfd80a3a816c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1756"
source_hash: "00b4b5fa2674b9e755159cc17f44d880a83f5ed038e3625b36c50d3d1fd79150"
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 1756 (2025) — Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; directors.

Southwest Regional Recreation Authority; directors. Provides that the board of directors of the Southwest Regional Recreation Authority may hire directors, rather than an executive director, to carry out various duties of the Authority.

## 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/1012831.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1072088.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1050042.PDF)

## Votes

- Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **15–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- James W. Morefield — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102139D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-01-05** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-13** Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #3 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-24** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-01-28** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-01-29** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-01-30** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-01-31** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-01-31** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Reported from Local Government (15-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 (HB1756ER) `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`
- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 193 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0193)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79c857b3-84d0-4e88-bc81-dfd80a3a816c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).