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type: "Bill"
title: "Colonial Beach, Town of; amending charter, appointment of chief of police."
description: "Charter; Town of Colonial Beach; chief of police. Provides that the chief of police for the Town of Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the town manager rather than the town council."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 164"
citation: "Virginia HB 164 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Margaret B. Ransone"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6ee580f-15c0-4838-8486-e4ec8e64c02e"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB164"
source_hash: "e89d83bba96e06df08a3ae5ed58ab02a1ffcac6bb473ef705d6a7f6a6fb500d3"
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 164 (2022) — Colonial Beach, Town of; amending charter, appointment of chief of police.
Charter; Town of Colonial Beach; chief of police. Provides that the chief of police for the Town of Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the town manager rather than the town council.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0227** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0227)
2. **HB164ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB164ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101100D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB164)
## Votes
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) — **211** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (96-Y 4-N) — **954** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 1-N) — **81** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Margaret B. Ransone — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101100D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 1-N)
- **2022-02-11** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** Read third time and passed House (96-Y 4-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** VOTE: Passage (96-Y 4-N)
- **2022-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-16** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Passed by temporarily
- **2022-03-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 227 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e6ee580f-15c0-4838-8486-e4ec8e64c02e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).