republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-2449.md

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Bill	Term limits; members of certain Authorities in City of Chesapeake limited to two terms.	Provides that members of the Chesapeake Economic Development Authority, Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Chesapeake Airport Authority, and Chesapeake Hospital Authority shall be limited to two terms. The bill provides that members of such authorities serve at the pleasure of the city council and that no member shall work for an authority within one year of serving as a member of that authority. This bill is identical to	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2017	HB 2449	Virginia HB 2449 (2017)	bill	Authorities Counties Cities and Towns	enacted	Barry D. Knight	4	29	10	2017-01-20	2017-03-16	openstates	ocd-bill/d10d4e51-5976-4b2c-874b-592493c2652c	http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB2449	78a44aee734d49eb29e62ccfe59e038b6f843f58198f317bf329ae5ff0f38452	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 2449 (2017) — Term limits; members of certain Authorities in City of Chesapeake limited to two terms.

Provides that members of the Chesapeake Economic Development Authority, Chesapeake Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Chesapeake Airport Authority, and Chesapeake Hospital Authority shall be limited to two terms. The bill provides that members of such authorities serve at the pleasure of the city council and that no member shall work for an authority within one year of serving as a member of that authority. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0541) (committee substitute) — source
2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2449ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. House: Presented and ordered printed 17103897D (committee substitute) — source
4. House: Printed as engrossed 17103897D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate with amendments — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• VOTE: ADOPTION — 91–2 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments — 20–0 (pass) · legislature
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — 9–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate amendments rejected by House — 0–96 (fail) · legislature
• Read third time and passed House — 92–3 (pass) · legislature
• Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
• Conference report agreed to by Senate — 40–0 (pass) · legislature
• Reported from Local Government with amendments — 8–0 (pass) · legislature
• Senate insisted on amendments — 40–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Barry D. Knight — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-20 Presented and ordered printed 17103897D introduction
• 2017-01-20 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2017-01-24 Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2017-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2017-02-06 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-06 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-06 Engrossed by House as amended HB2449E
• 2017-02-06 Printed as engrossed 17103897D-E
• 2017-02-07 Read third time and passed House (92-Y 3-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-08 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2017-02-08 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2017-02-17 Read third time reading-3
• 2017-02-17 Reading of amendments waived
• 2017-02-17 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2017-02-17 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2017-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2017-02-21 Senate amendments rejected by House (0-Y 96-N 1-A)
• 2017-02-22 Senate requested conference committee
• 2017-02-23 House acceded to request
• 2017-02-23 Conferees appointed by House
• 2017-02-23 Conferees appointed by Senate
• 2017-02-24 Amended by conference committee
• 2017-02-24 Conference report agreed to by House (91-2-N 1-A)
• 2017-03-07 Enrolled
• 2017-03-07 Signed by Speaker
• 2017-03-10 Signed by President
• 2017-03-13 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 3/13/17
• 2017-03-13 Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
• 2017-03-16 Approved by Governor-Chapter 541 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d10d4e51-5976-4b2c-874b-592493c2652c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).