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type: "Bill"
title: "Colonial Heights, City of; amending charter, relating to duties of city manager, etc."
description: "Charter; City of Colonial Heights. Amends the charter of the City of Colonial Heights by updating language related to the duties of the City Manager and City Attorney, including elimination of the City Attorney's duties to the school board and school superintendent. The bill also includes the update or repeal of various outdated provisions related to appropriations, purchasing, and capital improvements. This bill is identical to SB 112."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 227"
citation: "Virginia HB 227 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike A. Cherry"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-04"
last_action: "2024-03-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4b294e7-07d4-4d43-8dcb-cd49cfb3d912"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB227"
source_hash: "4b81708edb9dc4378aa4b75e7b98a9c95ad0c50fb6f77276c624dc228f98cfae"
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 HB 227 (2024) — Colonial Heights, City of; amending charter, relating to duties of city manager, etc.
Charter; City of Colonial Heights. Amends the charter of the City of Colonial Heights by updating language related to the duties of the City Manager and City Attorney, including elimination of the City Attorney's duties to the school board and school superintendent. The bill also includes the update or repeal of various outdated provisions related to appropriations, purchasing, and capital improvements. This bill is identical to SB 112.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0180** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0180)
2. **HB227ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB227ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100565D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB227)
## Votes
- Reported from Local Government (11-Y 0-N) — **110** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mike A. Cherry — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100565D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-04** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-02** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-06** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-07** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2024-02-08** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-08** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-02-09** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2024-02-09** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-26** Reported from Local Government (11-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-05** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB227ER) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-28** Approved by Governor-Chapter 180 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-28** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0180)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a4b294e7-07d4-4d43-8dcb-cd49cfb3d912`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).