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type: "Bill"
title: "Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; change in membership."
description: "Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; membership. Decreases from five to four the number of members of the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority appointed by the Mayor of the City of Richmond and adds to the Authority one member of the City Council of the City of Richmond appointed by the president of the Council. This bill is identical to HB 538."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 726"
citation: "Virginia SB 726 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer L. McClellan"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-07"
last_action: "2020-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47262198-e587-4e40-974b-6f3c2c412b80"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB726"
source_hash: "c161bfa546fe5f7818df13dff93487c0a334ab9f772b0d656de83c8b58de091d"
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 726 (2020) — Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; change in membership.
Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority; membership. Decreases from five to four the number of members of the Richmond Metropolitan Transportation Authority appointed by the Mayor of the City of Richmond and adds to the Authority one member of the City Council of the City of Richmond appointed by the president of the Council. This bill is identical to HB 538.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0281)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0281)
2. **Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB726ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB726ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (SB726)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB726)
## Votes
- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jennifer L. McClellan — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102253D `introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB726)
- **2020-01-20** Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-01-23** 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 Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** Reported from Transportation (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-02-21** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-26** Enrolled
- **2020-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (SB726ER)
- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-04** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 4, 2020
- **2020-03-04** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 11, 2020
- **2020-03-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 281 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47262198-e587-4e40-974b-6f3c2c412b80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).