republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2020/hb-105.md

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Bill	Congressional and state legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required.	Congressional and state legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required. Removes the requirement that the Division of Legislative Services prepare written descriptions of the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts. The bill does not affect provisions under current law that district boundaries are legally defined by the county and city boundaries reported in the decennial Census reports and by reference to precincts, parts of precincts, and census blocks listed in the Statistical Reports for each district.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 105	Virginia HB 105 (2020)	bill		enacted	Joseph C. Lindsey	3	25	7	2019-12-12	2020-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a0cd75d2-1734-47ea-89c7-1200e7cd087c	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB105	f0c4acc20ccc970fe0b35dd3ca92c402570ce9a78c658901c9bfc2a13dc1684f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 105 (2020) — Congressional and state legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required.

Congressional and state legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required. Removes the requirement that the Division of Legislative Services prepare written descriptions of the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts. The bill does not affect provisions under current law that district boundaries are legally defined by the county and city boundaries reported in the decennial Census reports and by reference to precincts, parts of precincts, and census blocks listed in the Statistical Reports for each district.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0862) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB105ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (HB105) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Referred from Rules — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) — 25–15 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Joseph C. Lindsey — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-12-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102534D introduction
• 2019-12-12 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2020-01-24 Impact statement from DPB (HB105)
• 2020-01-24 Referred from Rules
• 2020-01-24 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Assigned P & E sub: Redistricting referral-committee
• 2020-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-07 Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-09 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-10 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-02-11 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-11 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-12 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-12 Referred to Committee on Rules referral-committee
• 2020-02-21 Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-25 Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) passage
• 2020-03-02 Enrolled
• 2020-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB105ER)
• 2020-03-02 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-03 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 862 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0cd75d2-1734-47ea-89c7-1200e7cd087c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).