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Bill	Grottoes, Town of; new charter, previous charter repealed.	Charter; Town of Grottoes. Establishes a new charter for the Town of Grottoes in Rockingham County and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1997. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the town's government and contains powers typically granted to towns. This bill is identical to HB 161.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 99	Virginia SB 99 (2022)	bill		enacted	Emmett W. Hanger, Jr.	3	21	5	2022-01-06	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/92769930-d731-45ad-9ac3-30cc731d866e	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB99	72b288bdddfa8b7655caddbfc67452bab8d0721f1cc042b1fb19cea1b155f285	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 99 (2022) — Grottoes, Town of; new charter, previous charter repealed.

Charter; Town of Grottoes. Establishes a new charter for the Town of Grottoes in Rockingham County and repeals the current charter, which was created in 1997. The proposed charter sets out the organization of the town's government and contains powers typically granted to towns. This bill is identical to HB 161.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0618 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100207D (committee substitute) — source
3. SB99ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-06 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100207D introduction
• 2022-01-06 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2022-01-21 Assigned Local Gov sub: Charters referral-committee
• 2022-01-31 Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-01 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-03 Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2022-02-25 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-02 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-07 Enrolled
• 2022-03-08 Signed by President
• 2022-03-08 Signed by Speaker
• 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 618 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92769930-d731-45ad-9ac3-30cc731d866e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).