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Bill	County board of supervisors; presiding officers, terminology.	Presiding officer of county board of supervisors; terminology. Specifies that the presiding officer of a board of supervisors shall be called "chairman," "chairwoman," "chair," "chairperson," or "chair-at-large," in the presiding officer's discretion.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 738	Virginia HB 738 (2020)	bill		enacted	David A. Reid	4	27	6	2020-01-06	2020-03-04	openstates	ocd-bill/5ad78e20-9dad-4d82-8891-138eb49395b5	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB738	eb9354ce9eb0fdd1ab6837711925062b60aaf4aad327f3e32c14bdb627961994	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 738 (2020) — County board of supervisors; presiding officers, terminology.

Presiding officer of county board of supervisors; terminology. Specifies that the presiding officer of a board of supervisors shall be called "chairman," "chairwoman," "chair," "chairperson," or "chair-at-large," in the presiding officer's discretion.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0133) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB738ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed by House as amended HB738E (committee substitute) — source
4. Impact statement from DHCD (HB738) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) — 36–3 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments (20-Y 1-N) — 20–1 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 2-N) — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (91-Y 8-N) — 90–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• David A. Reid — primary (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Jill Holtzman Vogel — cosponsor (person)
• John J. Bell — cosponsor (person)
• Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
• Suhas Subramanyam — cosponsor (person)
• Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100981D introduction
• 2020-01-06 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2020-01-18 Impact statement from DHCD (HB738)
• 2020-01-21 Assigned CC & T sub: Charters referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 2-N)
• 2020-01-31 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2020-01-31 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendments (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-04 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-02-05 Committee amendments agreed to
• 2020-02-05 Engrossed by House as amended HB738E
• 2020-02-05 Printed as engrossed 20100981D-E
• 2020-02-06 Read third time and passed House (91-Y 8-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-06 VOTE: Passage (91-Y 8-N)
• 2020-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-02-07 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2020-02-17 Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-19 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-19 Passed by temporarily
• 2020-02-19 Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N) passage
• 2020-02-21 Enrolled
• 2020-02-21 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-02-24 Signed by President
• 2020-02-26 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2020
• 2020-02-26 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 4, 2020
• 2020-03-04 Approved by Governor-Chapter 133 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5ad78e20-9dad-4d82-8891-138eb49395b5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).