In January, the Senate unanimously passed an identical bill. But Republican lawmakers in the House had shared concerns about litigation over the city's new ward-based election system and whether they should approve the charter amendment bill while two lawsuits are pending.
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"The people of Virginia Beach asked us to make this change," Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler, D-Virginia Beach, said at a Monday news conference. "As legislators, we should be in the business of listening to our constituents."
The Virginia Beach NAACP expressed concerns over recent lawmaker votes in Richmond related to the city's transition of a more district-based 10-1 system.