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Bill Vienna, Town of; amending charter, election and term dates. Charter; Town of Vienna; elections; dates and terms. Changes the date of elections for the mayor and all councilmen from May 2022 to November 2023, with the accompanying start date changed to the first day of January 2024 and end date changed to the last day of December 2025. Starting in 2025, the bill changes the date for all subsequent elections to November, with the start date as the first day of January of the next year, and sets the term length for each councilman and mayor to two years. This bill is identical to SB 377. us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2022 HB 700 Virginia HB 700 (2022)
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Virginia HB 700 (2022) — Vienna, Town of; amending charter, election and term dates.

Charter; Town of Vienna; elections; dates and terms. Changes the date of elections for the mayor and all councilmen from May 2022 to November 2023, with the accompanying start date changed to the first day of January 2024 and end date changed to the last day of December 2025. Starting in 2025, the bill changes the date for all subsequent elections to November, with the start date as the first day of January of the next year, and sets the term length for each councilman and mayor to two years. This bill is identical to SB 377.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. CHAP0514 (committee substitute) — source
  2. HB700ER (committee substitute) — source
  3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102048D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 990 (pass) · lower
  • Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — 220 (pass) · lower
  • Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 400 (pass) · upper
  • Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) — 130 (pass) · upper
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — 90 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Mark L. Keam — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

  • 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102048D introduction
  • 2022-01-11 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
  • 2022-02-21 Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 2022-02-23 Read third time reading-3
  • 2022-02-23 Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage
  • 2022-02-25 Enrolled
  • 2022-02-25 Signed by Speaker
  • 2022-02-25 Signed by President
  • 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
  • 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
  • 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 514 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2cf96026-b6ca-4ba6-b220-680d869dfa18. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).