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type: "Bill"
title: "Pulaski, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections."
description: "Charter; Town of Pulaski. Amends the charter for the Town of Pulaski in Pulaski County to reflect the town's shift from May to November municipal elections. The bill clarifies that the town council's membership consists of seven members, including the mayor, and provides that the mayor may vote in the council. The bill also changes the time of the election of the vice-mayor from even-numbered years to odd-numbered years at the first meeting of the council. This bill is identical to SB 475."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1127"
citation: "Virginia HB 1127 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jonathan \"Jed\" Arnold"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c4c18f2-7f61-4ffe-a291-63005308a41c"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1127"
source_hash: "8ff13d5249529249c6c3705b0b9ef9a629de5a472ab2afd4db093b9b4776b3c7"
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 1127 (2024) — Pulaski, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections.
Charter; Town of Pulaski. Amends the charter for the Town of Pulaski in Pulaski County to reflect the town's shift from May to November municipal elections. The bill clarifies that the town council's membership consists of seven members, including the mayor, and provides that the mayor may vote in the council. The bill also changes the time of the election of the vice-mayor from even-numbered years to odd-numbered years at the first meeting of the council. This bill is identical to SB 475.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0317** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0317)
2. **HB1127ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1127ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100829D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1127)
## Votes
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **80** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (12-Y 0-N) — **120** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — **970** (pass) · lower
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Jonathan "Jed" Arnold — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100829D `filing, introduction`
- **2024-01-10** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-23** Assigned CC & T sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2024-02-02** Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-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 (12-Y 0-N) `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 (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2024-03-05** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1127ER) `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`
- **2024-04-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 317 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-02** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0317)
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c4c18f2-7f61-4ffe-a291-63005308a41c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).