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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Richmond, City of; amending charter, residency of council members.	Charter; City of Richmond. Requires a council member to reside in the election district from which the member was elected throughout the member's term on the council. A council member may be removed from office for failure to comply with the residency requirement. This bill is identical to HB 1064.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	SB 528	Virginia SB 528 (2020)	bill		enacted	Ghazala F. Hashmi	3	26	6	2020-01-07	2020-04-07	openstates	ocd-bill/dcc30086-1b04-4baa-aeb2-aeaad8d85246	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB528	cd0c896e05340ff005322b26d984aee8be48eecef18e20ba29867c33fd99b346	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 528 (2020) — Richmond, City of; amending charter, residency of council members.

Charter; City of Richmond. Requires a council member to reside in the election district from which the member was elected throughout the member's term on the council. A council member may be removed from office for failure to comply with the residency requirement. This bill is identical to HB 1064.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0827) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB528ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DHCD (SB528) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ghazala F. Hashmi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102256D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2020-01-18 Impact statement from DHCD (SB528)
• 2020-01-22 Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters referral-committee
• 2020-01-27 Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-28 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-30 Passed by for the day
• 2020-01-31 Passed by for the day
• 2020-02-03 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
• 2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 Assigned CC & T sub: Charters referral-committee
• 2020-02-20 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-28 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-03-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2020-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-03-04 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-03-04 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
• 2020-03-07 Enrolled
• 2020-03-07 Signed by President
• 2020-03-08 Signed by Speaker
• 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
• 2020-04-07 Approved by Governor-Chapter 827 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dcc30086-1b04-4baa-aeb2-aeaad8d85246. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).