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type: "Bill"
title: "Virginia Beach, City of; amending charter, transition to a city council, voting districts."
description: "An Act to amend and reenact § 3.01, as amended, § 3.01:1, and §§ 3.02:1 and 3.02:2, as amended, of Chapter 147 of the Acts of Assembly of 1962, which provided a charter for the City of Virginia Beach, and to repeal § 3.02:3 of Chapters 127 and 762 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, relating to city council; voting districts; emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 187"
citation: "Virginia HB 187 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 38
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2026-01-07"
last_action: "2026-03-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/13b04522-a26b-43a4-af9a-5e78a2fe2915"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB187"
source_hash: "296d825c746d073639e795353c67aab1b5f1f7bc79dbc64d5c51b9d9e8069ab1"
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 187 (2026) — Virginia Beach, City of; amending charter, transition to a city council, voting districts.
An Act to amend and reenact § 3.01, as amended, § 3.01:1, and §§ 3.02:1 and 3.02:2, as amended, of Chapter 147 of the Acts of Assembly of 1962, which provided a charter for the City of Virginia Beach, and to repeal § 3.02:3 of Chapters 127 and 762 of the Acts of Assembly of 2020, relating to city council; voting districts; emergency.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1082791.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1214803.PDF)
3. **Counties, Cities and Towns Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1095326.HTML)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1098921.PDF)
5. **Governor's Recommendation** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194960.HTML)
6. **Reenrolled** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1195137.PDF)
7. **Subcommittee #1 Subcommittee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1095290.HTML)
8. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1186995.PDF)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government — **105** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) — **41** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Governor's Recommendation R — **2218** (pass) · upper
- H VOTE: — **6629** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **8313** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **2515** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) — **154** (pass) · lower
- Passage R — **319** (pass) · upper
- Reconsider R — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — primary (person)
- Alex Q. Askew — cosponsor (person)
- Michael B. Feggans — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; Offered 01-14-2026 26101410D `filing, introduction`
- **2026-01-07** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Assigned HCCT sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23** House subcommittee offered
- **2026-01-23** Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 1-N)
- **2026-01-23** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns with amendment(s) (15-Y 4-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-27** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-01-28** Passed by for the day
- **2026-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-29** committee amendment agreed to `amendment-passage`
- **2026-01-29** Engrossed by House as amended
- **2026-01-30** Read third time and passed House (83-Y 13-N 1-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2026-02-02** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-23** Reported from Local Government (10-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Rules suspended
- **2026-02-24** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (39-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-24** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** Defeated by Senate (25-Y 15-N 0-A)
- **2026-02-25** Reconsideration of Senate passage rejected by Senate
- **2026-02-25** Passed by for the day
- **2026-02-26** Passed Senate (31-Y 9-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-02** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB187ER) `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 03, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 10, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-04** Governor's recommendation received by House `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2026-03-06** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (66-Y 29-N 1-A)
- **2026-03-10** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (22-Y 18-N 0-A)
- **2026-03-10** Reenrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-03-10** Reenrolled bill text (HB187ER2) `enrolled`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-10** Approved by Governor-Chapter11(Effective 3/10/2026) `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-10** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0011)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/13b04522-a26b-43a4-af9a-5e78a2fe2915`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).