---
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title: "Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed)."
description: "Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed)."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# Virginia SB 961 (2023) — Farmville, Town of; new charter (previous charter repealed).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).