republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-1511.md

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Bill	Martinsville, City of; amending charter, granting of town status.	Charter; City of Martinsville; town status;referendum. Amends the charter for the City of Martinsville torequire the circuit court for the City of Martinsville, prior tonotifying the Supreme Court of the City's adoption of an ordinanceand petition for an order granting town status to the City, to firstrequire an election to be held on the following question: "Shall theCity of Martinsville become a town?" The bill provides that if amajority of the qualified voters of the City voting on the questionare in favor of the transition from city to town status, the specialcourt shall enter the order granting town status in accordance withthe procedures, requirements, and provisions of general law.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 1511	Virginia HB 1511 (2024)	bill		enacted	Eric Phillips	3	19	5	2024-01-19	2024-04-05	openstates	ocd-bill/27f6cff6-c632-4555-8a52-4169cfb5aeac	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1511	8a8ef98cc3c07b9c4e369a1d7c8deb766f7682fb7c7d9ad8c1fc30fb70e157c3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1511 (2024) — Martinsville, City of; amending charter, granting of town status.

Charter; City of Martinsville; town status;referendum. Amends the charter for the City of Martinsville torequire the circuit court for the City of Martinsville, prior tonotifying the Supreme Court of the City's adoption of an ordinanceand petition for an order granting town status to the City, to firstrequire an election to be held on the following question: "Shall theCity of Martinsville become a town?" The bill provides that if amajority of the qualified voters of the City voting on the questionare in favor of the transition from city to town status, the specialcourt shall enter the order granting town status in accordance withthe procedures, requirements, and provisions of general law.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0565 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB1511ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Presented and ordered printed 24105192D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N) — 21–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eric Phillips — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-19 Presented and ordered printed 24105192D introduction
• 2024-01-19 Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-09 Referred to Committee on Local Government referral-committee
• 2024-02-26 Reported from Local Government (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed Senate (38-Y 1-N) passage
• 2024-03-05 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-03-05 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1511ER) passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-05 Approved by Governor-Chapter 565 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-05 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0565)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27f6cff6-c632-4555-8a52-4169cfb5aeac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).