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type: "Bill"
title: "Clarksville, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections."
description: "Charter; Town of Clarksville; town council. Makes various changes related to the Town of Clarksville's upcoming transition from May to November municipal elections. This bill is identical to SB 91."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 218"
citation: "Virginia HB 218 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas C. Wright, Jr."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-04-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d8f5230-5126-4cc3-80e3-7505fc1a4073"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB218"
source_hash: "8b4b5abea4b1e3d099ce6f1cb8067aef92467be5ffcab4c47e29f45d7f0256fb"
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 218 (2022) — Clarksville, Town of; amending charter, municipal elections.
Charter; Town of Clarksville; town council. Makes various changes related to the Town of Clarksville's upcoming transition from May to November municipal elections. This bill is identical to SB 91.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0120** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0120)
2. **HB218ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB218ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100985D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB218)
## Votes
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Counties, Cities and Towns (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) — **90** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Local Government (13-Y 0-N) — **130** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **400** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Thomas C. Wright, Jr. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100985D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-18** 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
- **2022-04-06** Approved by Governor-Chapter 120 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d8f5230-5126-4cc3-80e3-7505fc1a4073`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).