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type: "Bill"
title: "Winchester, City of; amending charter, relating to school board."
description: "Charter; City of Winchester. Amends theCity of Winchester's charter to provide for an elected school boardand to reduce the size of the school board from nine to seven members."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 1734"
citation: "Virginia HB 1734 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chris Collins-Resigned 6/28/20"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-02-05"
last_action: "2020-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/145fef30-c1e2-4e49-9991-20bfbf467f7e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1734"
source_hash: "456e37d0131648927457f2da8af68fd8a8227175d4ad7f2d2aa07a3fe8537d17"
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 1734 (2020) — Winchester, City of; amending charter, relating to school board.
Charter; City of Winchester. Amends theCity of Winchester's charter to provide for an elected school boardand to reduce the size of the school board from nine to seven members.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0598)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0598)
2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1734ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1734ER)
3. **Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (HB1734)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1734)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — **70** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Chris Collins-Resigned 6/28/20 — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-02-05** Unanimous consent to introduce
- **2020-02-05** Presented and ordered printed 20107121D `introduction`
- **2020-02-05** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (HB1734)
- **2020-02-13** Assigned CC & T sub: Charters `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-21** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2020-02-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-02-27** VOTE: Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2020-02-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2020-02-28** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2020-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2020-03-07** Enrolled
- **2020-03-07** Signed by President
- **2020-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **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
- **2020-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 598 (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/145fef30-c1e2-4e49-9991-20bfbf467f7e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).