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type: "Bill"
title: "Broadway, Town of; amending charter, November municipal elections."
description: "Amends the town's charter to reflect the recent change to November municipal elections and changes the mayor's term from two years to four years. This bill is identical to"
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 546"
citation: "Virginia SB 546 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charters"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark D. Obenshain"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-09"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1082204-1ad6-4c5d-8787-c68b970028a6"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB546"
source_hash: "716b59991ddbcc962ec975d1a7343006c83845c315b4a3015e76cbe392213929"
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 546 (2018) — Broadway, Town of; amending charter, November municipal elections.
Amends the town's charter to reflect the recent change to November municipal elections and changes the mayor's term from two years to four years. This bill is identical to
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB546ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB546ER)
2. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102421D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB546)
## Votes
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns — **210** (pass) · legislature
- Passed House BLOCK VOTE — **1000** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Local Government — **130** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed Senate — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Mark D. Obenshain — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-09** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102421D `introduction`
- **2018-01-09** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** Placed on Calendar
- **2018-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-29** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2018-02-22** Enrolled
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 89 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1082204-1ad6-4c5d-8787-c68b970028a6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).