Virginia Senate Bill 1418 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-02-03 - Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Petitions for candidacy; collection of signatures by electronic means. Allows a candidate required to file a petition of candidacy to collect the required number of qualified signatures by electronic means. The Department of Elections is required to make available on its website a petition for any candidate who notifies the Department that he intends to collect signatures electronically. Before a signature is added to the electronic candidate petition, the Department of Elections is required to verify that the name, residence address, and identifying number provided by the qualified voter match the information contained in his voter registration record. The Department of Elections is also required to immediately alert any person whose signature is not added to the petition and to notify the candidate or the chairman of the candidate's political party when the minimum number of qualified signatures has been collected. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2017.

Candidate petitions; collection of signatures by electronic means.

Sen. Jeffrey McWaters [R]

2015-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N) (Y: 11 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-03	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 4-N)
2015-01-23	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2015-01-23	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 15103197D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	506.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	521.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB1418
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1418+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S08V0085+SB1418