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type: "Bill"
title: "Chase City, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections."
description: "Charter; Town of Chase City; municipal elections. Updates the charter for the Town of Chase City to reflect the upcomingshift from May to November for municipal elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 1256"
citation: "Virginia HB 1256 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas C. Wright, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-20"
last_action: "2022-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a24f9baf-a441-412f-a8ef-7ee4649b21f4"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB1256"
source_hash: "28c18c3bd4bb05797afe832caaafdab155dd0d54eae9b8678f13f07250f6d028"
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 1256 (2022) — Chase City, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections.
Charter; Town of Chase City; municipal elections. Updates the charter for the Town of Chase City to reflect the upcomingshift from May to November for municipal elections.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0328** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0328)
2. **HB1256ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1256ER)
3. **Presented and ordered printed 22103320D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB1256)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) — **140** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **90** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-20** Presented and ordered printed 22103320D `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-24** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-28** Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-04** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-08** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-09** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-10** VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-11** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Passed by temporarily
- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 328 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a24f9baf-a441-412f-a8ef-7ee4649b21f4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).