---
type: "Bill"
title: "Haymarket, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections."
description: "Haymarket, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2005"
citation: "Virginia HB 2005 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roem"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-01-10"
last_action: "2023-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b650db1f-b8ce-4e60-880b-df92acf46b48"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB2005"
source_hash: "f266b3ab90e049c9653c4653374b4e17c1339d00be26d13f07ef7c61bb36c3fe"
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 2005 (2023) — Haymarket, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections.

## Version chain

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

1. **CHAP0070** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+CHAP0070)
2. **HB2005ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2005ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100847D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB2005)

## Votes

- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roem — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23100847D `filing, introduction`
- **2023-01-10** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2023-01-27** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2023-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-02** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2023-02-03** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-20** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-21** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2023-02-22** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-22** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2023-03-07** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2023-03-07** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2005ER) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Signed by President `passage`
- **2023-03-13** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 13, 2023 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-21** Approved by Governor-Chapter 70 (effective 7/1/23) `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-21** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0070)

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b650db1f-b8ce-4e60-880b-df92acf46b48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).