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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: "SB 1152"
citation: "Virginia SB 1152 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark J. Peake"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-07"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/57a77c11-e9dc-4af5-882f-01eab28b96cc"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+SB1152"
source_hash: "5533016e7d37572dfa5c071cda5616ef61255c52a2298621b7a0c5b0b8fa07a6"
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 1152 (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. **CHAP0135** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0135)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101480D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1152)
3. **SB1152ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+SB1152ER)
## Votes
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **980** (pass) · lower
- Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns — **00** (fail) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — **380** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mark J. Peake — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101480D `introduction`
- **2021-01-07** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-19** Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-20** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-21** Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-02** Placed on Calendar
- **2021-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-02** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** Continued to Special Session 1 in Counties, Cities and Towns
- **2021-02-10** Assigned CC & T sub: Charters `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-11** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-12** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-17** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-17** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-19** Enrolled
- **2021-02-19** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-22** Signed by President
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 24, 2021
- **2021-02-24** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 135 (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/57a77c11-e9dc-4af5-882f-01eab28b96cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).