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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed)."
+description: "Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed)."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 961"
+citation: "Virginia SB 961 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Peake"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2023-01-06"
+last_action: "2023-03-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c69faca-60f1-4f2c-a48a-b52b467c8746"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB961"
+source_hash: "8aab7b8dc7164bc61533b1fd050a6c313ad6b1c0199aaf844b718c6b90f97448"
+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+# Virginia SB 961 (2023) — Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed).
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0059** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0059)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100945D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB961)
+3. **SB961ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB961ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Reported from Local Government (12-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Peake — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-06** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100945D `filing, introduction`
+- **2023-01-06** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-20** Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-23** Reported from Local Government (12-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-01-24** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
+- **2023-01-25** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-26** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2023-02-08** Placed on Calendar
+- **2023-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-08** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-10** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-14** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-15** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-15** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2023-02-20** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB961ER) `passage`
+- **2023-02-20** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 2, 2023 `enrolled`
+- **2023-03-02** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 59 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0059)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c69faca-60f1-4f2c-a48a-b52b467c8746`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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