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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charter; Town of Port Royal."
description: "Charter; Town of Port Royal."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1729"
citation: "Virginia HB 1729 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret B. Ransone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-07"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db9652a1-2beb-4112-aeae-d5a5f445e08a"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1729"
source_hash: "326f367c69ea3145aab04332822f3815944c4e0674185769fba56b979cd7488e"
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 1729 (2017) — Charter; Town of Port Royal.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0378)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0378)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1729ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1729ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101822D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1729)
## Votes
- Reported from Local Government — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **190** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **100** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Margaret B. Ransone — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101822D `introduction`
- **2017-01-07** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-26** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
- **2017-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 378 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db9652a1-2beb-4112-aeae-d5a5f445e08a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).