Chesterfield County; amending charter, corrects or repeals outdated provisions, technical amendment.
Summary
Corrects or repeals numerous outdated provisions and makes technical amendments to the County of Chesterfield charter. Other changes include (i) eliminating provisions relating to the departments of budget and management, accounting, and fire and replacing a listing of these and other county departments with a general statement that provides, in part, that the board of supervisors, in consultation with the county administrator, may create or abolish existing departments; (ii) eliminating various requirements related to appointment of a committee on the future and replacing it with an authorization to appoint committees as the board deems advisable; and (iii) providing that once a public facility has been determined to be in substantial accord with the county's comprehensive plan or is shown on the public facilities plan, then additional property for such facility may be added without submittal and approval and that "small cell" telecommunications facilities shall be exempt from certain requirements for substantial accord approval if the facilities are located within a zoning district where such use is either permitted by right or permitted with restrictions.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2017
Committee Review
Jan 2017
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2017
Senate Passage
Jan 2017
Signed into Law
Mar 2017
Introduced Jan 10, 2017
Signed Mar 13, 2017
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
17
Key actions
4
Committee
5
Mar 13, 2017
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 382 (effective 7/1/17)
executive
Jan 26, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Local Government
legislature
Jan 25, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
legislature
Jan 24, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1958H1
legislature
Jan 24, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Committee substitute agreed to 17104301D-H1
legislature
Jan 16, 2017
Committee
Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1
legislature
Jan 10, 2017
Committee
Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns
legislature
Jan 10, 2017
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102728D
legislature
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Riley E. Ingram
RRepublican
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