Virginia House Bill 1598 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 31 2017 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-21 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: Senate Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Voter registration; proof of citizenship required to register to vote in certain elections. Requires persons applying to register to vote to provide proof of United States citizenship in a form enumerated in the bill. An applicant who does not provide such proof of citizenship shall be registered to vote in federal elections only. An applicant who does provide such proof of citizenship shall be registered to vote in federal, state, and local elections. The bill provides that any person who is registered in the Commonwealth on January 1, 2018, will be deemed to have provided proof of citizenship. The bill directs the general registrars to indicate on each registered voter's registration record whether such voter is registered to vote in federal, state, and local elections or in federal elections only.

Voter registration; proof of citizenship required to register to vote in certain elections.

Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Mark Dudenhefer [R]	Del. Matt Fariss [R]	Del. Chris Jones [R]
Del. Steven Landes [R]	Del. Tony Wilt [R]

2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-14 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) (Y: 8 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-01 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE (64-Y 33-N) (Y: 64 N: 33 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 7-N) (Y: 15 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-24 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N) (Y: 5 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-21	Senate	Left in Courts of Justice
2017-02-20	Senate	Rereferred to Courts of Justice
2017-02-20	Senate	Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to
2017-02-20	Senate	Read third time
2017-02-17	Senate	Passed by for the day
2017-02-17	Senate	Read third time
2017-02-16	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-14	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N)
2017-02-02	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2017-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2017-02-01	House	VOTE: PASSAGE (64-Y 33-N)
2017-02-01	House	Read third time and passed House (64-Y 33-N)
2017-01-31	House	Read second time and engrossed
2017-01-30	House	Read first time
2017-01-27	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 7-N)
2017-01-24	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 2-N)
2017-01-10	House	Assigned P & E sub: Elections
2017-01-03	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2017-01-03	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100743D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	404	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	417	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	418	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1598
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1598+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H1804V0018+HB1598
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H18V0015+HB1598
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV1789+HB1598
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S08V0122+HB1598
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0627HB1598+HB1598