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type: "Bill"
title: "Williamsburg, City of; amending charter, expands membership on redevelopment and housing authority."
description: "Expands membership on the redevelopment and housing authority from five members to up to seven members, no more than five of whom shall be members of the city council. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1977"
citation: "Virginia HB 1977 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael P. Mullin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65dff817-41d2-4951-910f-e3010784b8c6"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1977"
source_hash: "094ac0b95218b4196b25ad07a487961d26f9e88b63de81d9626c68d753adb5f4"
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 1977 (2017) — Williamsburg, City of; amending charter, expands membership on redevelopment and housing authority.
Expands membership on the redevelopment and housing authority from five members to up to seven members, no more than five of whom shall be members of the city council. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0385)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0385)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1977ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1977ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101652D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1977)
## Votes
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **181** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — **90** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — **951** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Michael P. Mullin — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101652D `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`
- **2017-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-02-06** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-02-07** Read third time and passed House (95-Y 1-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-02-08** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-02-08** 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 385 (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/65dff817-41d2-4951-910f-e3010784b8c6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).