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type: "Bill"
title: "Hopewell, City of; amending charter, appointment of president of city council."
description: "Changes from \"election\" to \"appointment\" the term used to describe the vote of the city council for a new president and vice-president of the council. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2002"
citation: "Virginia HB 2002 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lashrecse D. Aird"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5151acb1-baf0-4b2a-ae28-a74aa800dec8"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2002"
source_hash: "b1fe66ab763c6ee911385b1bd4ece48e63df53eac9ec7ec2ecc3f5f53e6fc717"
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 2002 (2019) — Hopewell, City of; amending charter, appointment of president of city council.
Changes from "election" to "appointment" the term used to describe the vote of the city council for a new president and vice-president of the council. 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 (CHAP0207)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0207)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2002ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2002ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103089D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2002)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government — **120** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **71** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House — **981** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **201** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Lashrecse D. Aird — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19103089D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Enrolled
- **2019-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-05** Approved by Governor-Chapter 207 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5151acb1-baf0-4b2a-ae28-a74aa800dec8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).