republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2017/hb-1958.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Chesterfield County; amending charter, corrects or repeals outdated provisions, technical amendment."
description: "Corrects or repeals numerous outdated provisions and makes technical amendments to the County of Chesterfield charter. Other changes include (i) eliminating provisions relating to the departments of budget and management, accounting, and fire and replacing a listing of these and other county departments with a general statement that provides, in part, that the board of supervisors, in consultation with the county administrator, may create or abolish existing departments; (ii) eliminating various requirements related to appointment of a committee on the future and replacing it with an authorization to appoint committees as the board deems advisable; and (iii) providing that once a public facility has been determined to be in substantial accord with the county's comprehensive plan or is shown on the public facilities plan, then additional property for such facility may be added without submittal and approval and that \"small cell\" telecommunications facilities shall be exempt from certain requirements for substantial accord approval if the facilities are located within a zoning district where such use is either permitted by right or permitted with restrictions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1958"
citation: "Virginia HB 1958 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Riley E. Ingram"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3119a90f-b1c3-4e1d-b7fd-67cf38f68083"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1958"
source_hash: "5b7a11dc06f5062654711698b5fabb06e95f693719d5759dd3d57f8499b36bd0"
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# Virginia HB 1958 (2017) — Chesterfield County; amending charter, corrects or repeals outdated provisions, technical amendment.

Corrects or repeals numerous outdated provisions and makes technical amendments to the County of Chesterfield charter. Other changes include (i) eliminating provisions relating to the departments of budget and management, accounting, and fire and replacing a listing of these and other county departments with a general statement that provides, in part, that the board of supervisors, in consultation with the county administrator, may create or abolish existing departments; (ii) eliminating various requirements related to appointment of a committee on the future and replacing it with an authorization to appoint committees as the board deems advisable; and (iii) providing that once a public facility has been determined to be in substantial accord with the county's comprehensive plan or is shown on the public facilities plan, then additional property for such facility may be added without submittal and approval and that "small cell" telecommunications facilities shall be exempt from certain requirements for substantial accord approval if the facilities are located within a zoning district where such use is either permitted by right or permitted with restrictions.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0382)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0382)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1958ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1958ER)
3. **House: Committee substitute printed 17104301D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1958H1)
4. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102728D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1958)

## Votes

- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with substitute — **19–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — **12–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Riley E. Ingram — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102728D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-16** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2017-01-24** Committee substitute agreed to 17104301D-H1
- **2017-01-24** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1958H1
- **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 382 (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/3119a90f-b1c3-4e1d-b7fd-67cf38f68083`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).