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type: "Bill"
title: "Richmond, City of; restrictions on activities of former officers and employees."
description: "Permits the City of Richmond to adopt an ordinance prohibiting former officers and employees from representing a client or any person or group, for compensation, for one year after their terms of office have ended or employment has ceased, on any matters relating to any agency, department, or office at which the officer or employee served or was employed during the one-year period immediately prior to the termination of employment or service. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2061"
citation: "Virginia HB 2061 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dawn M. Adams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-07"
last_action: "2019-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1103a3e1-fae3-49db-8a0d-4f2d2c7ac199"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2061"
source_hash: "68ce61f4bfa99e961e60a63ebe78643d7d539c0e7f89d699c0faa9b2265c9d62"
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 2061 (2019) — Richmond, City of; restrictions on activities of former officers and employees.
Permits the City of Richmond to adopt an ordinance prohibiting former officers and employees from representing a client or any person or group, for compensation, for one year after their terms of office have ended or employment has ceased, on any matters relating to any agency, department, or office at which the officer or employee served or was employed during the one-year period immediately prior to the termination of employment or service. 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 (CHAP0472)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0472)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2061ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2061ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101983D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2061)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **80** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government — **120** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **210** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dawn M. Adams — primary (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Lamont Bagby — cosponsor (person)
- Rosalyn R. Dance — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101983D `introduction`
- **2019-01-07** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Enrolled
- **2019-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 472 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1103a3e1-fae3-49db-8a0d-4f2d2c7ac199`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).