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type: "Bill"
title: "Bristol, City of; amending charter, increases voting precincts."
description: "Charter; City of Bristol. Amends the City of Bristol's charter to provide for five voting precincts rather than four. The bill also replaces references to the personnel department with \"human resources department\" and makes changes related to the assignment of powers and duties. This bill is identical to SB 618."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 682"
citation: "Virginia HB 682 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Israel D. O'Quinn"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-09"
last_action: "2024-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0740495a-3a74-4d47-a687-f85b264faef0"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB682"
source_hash: "f3aa22c762fcfd83d62aad36c39924221f416860534ed8f967f66713609b5f63"
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 682 (2024) — Bristol, City of; amending charter, increases voting precincts.
Charter; City of Bristol. Amends the City of Bristol's charter to provide for five voting precincts rather than four. The bill also replaces references to the personnel department with "human resources department" and makes changes related to the assignment of powers and duties. This bill is identical to SB 618.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0447** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0447)
2. **HB682ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB682ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101453D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB682)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government (12-Y 0-N) — **120** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N) — **210** (pass) · lower
- Referred from Counties, Cities and Towns — **00** (fail) · lower
## Sponsors
- Israel D. O'Quinn — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101453D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-09** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Referred from Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-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 (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-08** 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 (12-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 (HB682ER) `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`
- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 447 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0447)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0740495a-3a74-4d47-a687-f85b264faef0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).