---
type: "Bill"
title: "Quantico, Town of; amending charter, removes certain town officers elected by town council."
description: "Quantico, Town of; amending charter, removes certain town officers elected by town council."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1461"
citation: "Virginia HB 1461 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["L. Mark Dudenhefer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-12-05"
last_action: "2017-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/03ed4039-721a-4a35-9aef-b228d9738925"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1461"
source_hash: "d70364a6016536307920d29f38ec0f322636cfadc626464f2f7a5987142190b8"
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 1461 (2017) — Quantico, Town of; amending charter, removes certain town officers elected by town council.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0256)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1461ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1461ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100961D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1461)

## Votes

- Reported from Local Government — **13–0** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **19–0** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **39–0** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **10–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **40–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- L. Mark Dudenhefer — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100961D `introduction`
- **2016-12-05** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-12** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-24** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-26** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled
- **2017-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2017-02-21** Signed by President
- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 256 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/03ed4039-721a-4a35-9aef-b228d9738925`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).