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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Norton, City of; amending charter, November municipal elections, etc."
+description: "Norton, City of; amending charter, November municipal elections, etc."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 1509"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1509 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Kilgore"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2023-01-04"
+last_action: "2023-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0289fa71-e42d-48c9-8c21-ee7bf5df289c"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1509"
+source_hash: "94d31e129754a3ff98a40d75d132a312f1f8159c8099744bbe32d1e1ef953baf"
+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 1509 (2023) — Norton, City of; amending charter, November municipal elections, etc.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0062** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0062)
+2. **HB1509ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1509ER)
+3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100899D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1509)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Kilgore — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-04** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100899D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-04** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-11** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-13** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-20** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-24** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-26** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-01-26** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2023-01-27** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-13** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-14** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-15** Passed by for the day
+- **2023-02-16** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-16** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-21** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1509ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 62 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0062)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0289fa71-e42d-48c9-8c21-ee7bf5df289c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+