VA SB131 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 28 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Passed on March 28 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Summary
Primary elections; candidates for nomination; withdrawal of candidacy resulting in unopposed primary; primary cancellation and nomination procedure. Provides that if a person who is a candidate for nomination by a political party at a primary election and who appears on the ballot for such election withdraws his candidacy on or after the forty-fourth day before but prior to the Tuesday immediately preceding the primary election, and the result of such withdrawal is one remaining candidate who is now unopposed, the remaining candidate will be declared the party's nominee for the office sought and the primary election will be canceled. The bill requires the notice of withdrawal to be signed and notarized and to be submitted to the general registrar, who then transmits it to the local electoral board and the State Board of Elections along with a certification that the remaining candidate is now unopposed for nomination. The State Board is required to declare the remaining candidate to be the nominee within one calendar day of receiving such notice, and the local electoral board is then required to petition the circuit court for the cancellation of the primary election. Finally, the bill directs the State Board to prescribe procedures for canceling a primary election, including instructions for locking and securing voting systems, disposition of marked and unmarked absentee ballots, and voter notification. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.
Title
Primary elections; candidates for nomination, withdrawal of candidacy.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-03-07 - Senate - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-03-06 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) (Y: 97 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-03-01 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-16 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-03-06 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) (Y: 97 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-03-01 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-02-16 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-25 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-01-23 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-28 | Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) | |
| 2024-03-28 | Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 230 (effective 1/1/25) | |
| 2024-03-27 | Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 | |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024 |
| 2024-03-26 | House | Signed by Speaker |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | Signed by President |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB131ER) |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | Enrolled |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | Title replaced 24107833D-H1 |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | House substitute agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-03-06 | House | VOTE: Passage (97-Y 1-N) |
| 2024-03-06 | House | Passed House with substitute (97-Y 1-N) |
| 2024-03-06 | House | Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB131H1 |
| 2024-03-06 | House | Committee substitute agreed to 24107833D-H1 |
| 2024-03-06 | House | Read third time |
| 2024-03-05 | House | Read second time |
| 2024-03-01 | House | Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-20 | House | Rereferred to Privileges and Elections |
| 2024-02-20 | House | Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to |
| 2024-02-16 | House | Committee substitute printed 24107833D-H1 |
| 2024-02-16 | House | Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (21-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Read first time |
| 2024-02-13 | House | Placed on Calendar |
| 2024-01-29 | Senate | Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-26 | Senate | Read second time and engrossed |
| 2024-01-25 | Senate | Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-23 | Senate | Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| 2024-01-05 | Senate | Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections |
| 2024-01-05 | Senate | Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24102245D |
Same As/Similar To
HB55 (Similar To) 2024-03-28 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0166)
Subjects
Code Citations
| Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 2 | 538.1 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
| 24 | 2 | 612.2 | (n/a) | See Bill Text |
