HB 1677 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Charter; City of Martinsville.

Summary

An Act to amend and reenact § 2, as amended, of Chapter 7 of Chapter 193 of the Acts of Assembly of 1950, which provided a charter for the City of Martinsville, relating to qualifications of city attorney.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Feb 2025

House of Delegates Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Feb 2025

Signed into Law

Mar 2025

Introduced Jan 3, 2025 Signed Mar 18, 2025

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What changed between versions

Enrolled → Chaptered · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill converts HB 1677 from an enrolled bill to a chaptered act, making it officially part of Virginia law. The substantive content regarding city attorney qualifications for Martinsville remains unchanged, with only formatting and layout adjustments applied to the final published version.

TECHNICAL

Formatting changes including removal of session headers and addition of chapter number, approval date, and proper spacing for the final published version.

Added approval date of March 18, 2025 to indicate when the bill was signed into law.

No substantive policy changes to the city attorney qualifications requirements.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 11, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

How they voted

40–0

Passed

Total votes 40

Feb 11, 2025

D Democratic21

21 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican19

19 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 18, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by Governor-Chapter 11 (Effective 07/01/25)

executive

Feb 20, 2025

Upper · Passed

Signed by President

upper

Feb 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Signed by Speaker

lower

Feb 17, 2025

Lower · Passed

Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1677ER)

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)

upper

Feb 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N)

upper

Feb 5, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Local Government

upper

Feb 4, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 31, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 1-N)

lower

Jan 29, 2025

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)

lower

Jan 13, 2025

Committee

Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #1

lower

Jan 3, 2025

Committee

Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors