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type: "Bill"
title: "Ashland, Town of; amending charter, updates town's boundaries."
description: "Charter; Town of Ashland. Amends the charter for the Town of Ashland in Hanover County by updating the town's boundaries. Additional changes in the bill reflect the Town's shift in municipal elections from May to November, provide that council vacancies shall be filled in accordance with general law, and clarify the duties and role of the town manager and town attorney."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2760"
citation: "Virginia HB 2760 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Scott A. Wyatt"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-01-17"
last_action: "2025-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45c565d8-dd6e-4e5c-88c8-3f7494ca8a8b"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB2760"
source_hash: "17193baf21f87cbdf3bfd8f170d1e228c9a6d65b575920efa5dd165c9280d8d8"
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 2760 (2025) — Ashland, Town of; amending charter, updates town's boundaries.
Charter; Town of Ashland. Amends the charter for the Town of Ashland in Hanover County by updating the town's boundaries. Additional changes in the bill reflect the Town's shift in municipal elections from May to November, provide that council vacancies shall be filled in accordance with general law, and clarify the duties and role of the town manager and town attorney.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1022615.PDF)
2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1071278.PDF)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1050376.PDF)
## Votes
- Passed House (99-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Scott A. Wyatt — primary (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-17** Presented and ordered printed 25103818D `introduction`
- **2025-01-17** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** Assigned CCT sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-29** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2025-01-31** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-02** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-03** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2025-02-04** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-04** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2025-02-04** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Committee on Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Reported from Local Government (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-11** Rules suspended
- **2025-02-11** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- **2025-02-11** Passed by for the day
- **2025-02-12** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2025-02-17** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2760ER) `passage`
- **2025-02-17** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2025-02-20** Signed by President `passage`
- **2025-03-03** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-03** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-19** Approved by Governor-Chapter 106 (Effective 07/01/25) `executive-signature`
- **2025-03-19** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0106)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45c565d8-dd6e-4e5c-88c8-3f7494ca8a8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).