---
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title: "Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed)."
description: "Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed)."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: "HB 1539"
citation: "Virginia HB 1539 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Edmunds"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-05"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d513dab4-a9ff-43b6-932a-b06bbe78ca49"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1539"
source_hash: "b513ed2eb388590e69013caedd4946b71058cde7921ed9b4f3e080dc518bf0f5"
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# Virginia HB 1539 (2023) — Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed).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. **CHAP0058** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0058)
2. **HB1539ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1539ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102409D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1539)

## Votes

- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- 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

## Sponsors

- Edmunds — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-05** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102409D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-05** 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 Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-20** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-02-20** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1539ER) `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, 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 58 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0058)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d513dab4-a9ff-43b6-932a-b06bbe78ca49`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).