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type: "Bill"
title: "Appomattox, Town of; amending charter, shifts local elections from May to November, etc."
description: "Charter; Town of Appomattox. Shifts localelections for the Town of Appomattox from May to November and staggersthe election of members of the town council. The bill makes organizationalchanges to provisions related to the election and appointment oftown officers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1858"
citation: "Virginia HB 1858 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Matthew Fariss"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20028e7a-d5ec-408f-b288-63b62aed830b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1858"
source_hash: "0864eacc1a870a9410f92eea4a4f8c4eae99087a174ea5c16c1dede049b71b92"
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 1858 (2021) — Appomattox, Town of; amending charter, shifts local elections from May to November, etc.
Charter; Town of Appomattox. Shifts localelections for the Town of Appomattox from May to November and staggersthe election of members of the town council. The bill makes organizationalchanges to provisions related to the election and appointment oftown officers.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0134** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0134)
2. **HB1858ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1858ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101409D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1858)
## Votes
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- C. Matthew Fariss — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101409D `introduction`
- **2021-01-07** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-13** Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-13** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-19** Assigned CC & T sub: Charters `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-22** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-25** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-27** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-27** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Local Government (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-15** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-22** Enrolled
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-25** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 25, 2021
- **2021-02-25** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 134 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20028e7a-d5ec-408f-b288-63b62aed830b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).