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type: "Bill"
title: "Chesapeake, City of; amending charter, director of audit services."
description: "Provides that the director of audit services for the City of Chesapeake shall be known as the City Auditor, shall be chosen solely on the basis of professional qualifications, and shall serve at the pleasure of the city council. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 127"
citation: "Virginia SB 127 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John A. Cosgrove, Jr."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-12-19"
last_action: "2018-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/865a4aa0-65cb-4af7-ab0c-4e54cc1852e7"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB127"
source_hash: "7570b9713891a105dc703d2a7c757139c3e1c17fdb2832bf038cc9971f5c61d5"
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 127 (2018) — Chesapeake, City of; amending charter, director of audit services.
Provides that the director of audit services for the City of Chesapeake shall be known as the City Auditor, shall be chosen solely on the basis of professional qualifications, and shall serve at the pleasure of the city council. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB127ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB127ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100761D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB127)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — **120** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- John A. Cosgrove, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-12-19** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100761D `introduction`
- **2017-12-19** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 174 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/865a4aa0-65cb-4af7-ab0c-4e54cc1852e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).