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type: "Bill"
title: "Congressional and state legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required."
description: "Congressional and state legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required. Removes the requirement that the Division of Legislative Services prepare written descriptions of the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts. The bill does not affect provisions under current law that district boundaries are legally defined by the county and city boundaries reported in the decennial Census reports and by reference to precincts, parts of precincts, and census blocks listed in the Statistical Reports for each district."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 105"
citation: "Virginia HB 105 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph C. Lindsey"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-12-12"
last_action: "2020-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0cd75d2-1734-47ea-89c7-1200e7cd087c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB105"
source_hash: "f0c4acc20ccc970fe0b35dd3ca92c402570ce9a78c658901c9bfc2a13dc1684f"
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 105 (2020) — Congressional and state legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required.
Congressional and state legislative districts; written descriptions of boundaries not required. Removes the requirement that the Division of Legislative Services prepare written descriptions of the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts. The bill does not affect provisions under current law that district boundaries are legally defined by the county and city boundaries reported in the decennial Census reports and by reference to precincts, parts of precincts, and census blocks listed in the Statistical Reports for each district.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0862)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0862)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB105ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB105ER)
3. **Impact statement from DPB (HB105)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB105)
## Votes
- Referred from Rules — **00** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) — **2515** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Joseph C. Lindsey — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-12-12** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102534D `introduction`
- **2019-12-12** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB105)
- **2020-01-24** Referred from Rules
- **2020-01-24** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Assigned P & E sub: Redistricting `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-07** Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-10** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-12** Referred to Committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** Reported from Rules (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Enrolled
- **2020-03-02** Impact statement from DPB (HB105ER)
- **2020-03-02** Signed by Speaker
- **2020-03-03** Signed by President
- **2020-03-12** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
- **2020-03-12** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
- **2020-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 862 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0cd75d2-1734-47ea-89c7-1200e7cd087c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).