republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2025/sb-997.md

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Bill	Local officers; oath of office.	Local officers; oath of office. Provides that, notwithstanding the provisions of any local government charter, or any other provision of law, every elected county, city, town and district officer, on or before the day on which his term of office begins, shall qualify by taking the oath prescribed by general law. Current law allows a local government charter to prescribe a different procedure for taking the oath. This bill is identical to HB 2628.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2025	SB 997	Virginia SB 997 (2025)	bill		enacted	Angelia Williams Graves	3	25	6	2025-01-07	2025-03-24	openstates	ocd-bill/bdaeb0e9-8211-4bdf-aa8d-9b5b3902390e	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB997	4fd475b743b77869f3f31b715c846cee768704fa1fdba9be1c71bea610fad753	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 997 (2025) — Local officers; oath of office.

Local officers; oath of office. Provides that, notwithstanding the provisions of any local government charter, or any other provision of law, every elected county, city, town and district officer, on or before the day on which his term of office begins, shall qualify by taking the oath prescribed by general law. Current law allows a local government charter to prescribe a different procedure for taking the oath. This bill is identical to HB 2628.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed House (97-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Angelia Williams Graves — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25103028D filing, introduction
• 2025-01-07 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2025-01-13 Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-01-14 Rules suspended
• 2025-01-14 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (37-Y 0-N)
• 2025-01-14 Passed by for the day
• 2025-01-15 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2025-01-16 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-05 Placed on Calendar
• 2025-02-05 Read first time reading-1
• 2025-02-05 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2025-02-06 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2025-02-07 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2025-02-11 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-12 Read third time reading-3
• 2025-02-12 Passed House (97-Y 0-N) passage
• 2025-02-17 Enrolled enrolled
• 2025-02-17 Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB997ER) passage
• 2025-02-17 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2025-02-20 Signed by President passage
• 2025-02-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025 enrolled
• 2025-02-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-03-24 Approved by Governor-Chapter 424 (Effective 07/01/25) executive-signature
• 2025-03-24 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0424)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bdaeb0e9-8211-4bdf-aa8d-9b5b3902390e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).