Virginia House Bill 874 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2024 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the Senate of Virginia or $10,000 to any one candidate for the House of Delegates in any one election cycle. The bill does not place any limits on in-kind contributions to such candidates from political party committees. The bill establishes thresholds for any candidates making contributions to their own campaign in excess of $400,000 in a race for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the Senate of Virginia or $200,000 in a race for House of Delegates. The bill also prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $10,000 to any one political committee in any calendar year. Civil penalties for violations of the limits established by the bill may equal up to two times the excess contribution amounts.

Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits, civil penalty.

Del. David Bulova [D]

Del. Dan Helmer [D]

Del. Elizabeth Bennett-Parker [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2024-01-09	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2024-01-09	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104987D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	948.11	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	953.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB874
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB874+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB874F122+PDF