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type: "Bill"
title: "Newport News, City of; amending charter, inaugural meeting of newly elected council."
description: "Authorizes the Newport News City Council to set the time of the inaugural meeting of the newly elected council that is held on the first regular meeting date in July after council elections. Current law requires that the meeting be held at 10:00 a.m. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1045"
citation: "Virginia SB 1045 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mamie E. Locke"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-11-28"
last_action: "2019-02-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f99badb-d5d9-4d64-ae9c-a3746f362562"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+SB1045"
source_hash: "9fd5b372b91a713e2f6c816d4e46fd943e991bbc3ecdd18f36e9729b2df6fe84"
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 1045 (2019) — Newport News, City of; amending charter, inaugural meeting of newly elected council.
Authorizes the Newport News City Council to set the time of the inaugural meeting of the newly elected council that is held on the first regular meeting date in July after council elections. Current law requires that the meeting be held at 10:00 a.m. 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 (CHAP0108)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0108)
2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1045ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1045ER)
3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101228D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+SB1045)
## Votes
- Reported from Local Government — **120** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate — **380** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mamie E. Locke — primary (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- T. Montgomery "Monty" Mason — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-11-28** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101228D `introduction`
- **2018-11-28** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-01-30** Placed on Calendar
- **2019-01-30** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-30** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-11** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2019-02-12** Enrolled
- **2019-02-12** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-13** Signed by President
- **2019-02-14** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 14, 2019
- **2019-02-14** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 21, 2019
- **2019-02-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 108 (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/7f99badb-d5d9-4d64-ae9c-a3746f362562`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).