---
type: "Bill"
title: "Keysville, Town of; amending charter, shifts municipal elections to November."
description: "Keysville, Town of; amending charter, shifts municipal elections to November."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2807"
citation: "Virginia HB 2807 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["James E. Edmunds, II"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/89c7c4ac-734f-4f9e-8791-60375c11d49d"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2807"
source_hash: "7f23bb2b852a05c9032596db55527683d2ce6bbbcc87c73e24eb21e7793d29ca"
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 2807 (2019) — Keysville, Town of; amending charter, shifts municipal elections to November.

## Version chain

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

1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0727)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0727)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2807ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2807ER)
3. **House: Presented and ordered printed 19105049D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2807)

## Votes

- Reported from Local Government — **12–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **21–0** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- James E. Edmunds, II — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Unanimous consent to introduce
- **2019-01-21** Presented and ordered printed 19105049D `introduction`
- **2019-01-21** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-03** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-04** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2019-02-05** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-20** Enrolled
- **2019-02-20** Signed by Speaker
- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
- **2019-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
- **2019-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
- **2019-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 727 (effective 7/1/19) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/89c7c4ac-734f-4f9e-8791-60375c11d49d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).