Virginia Senate Bill 370 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 11 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Elections; conduct of election; election results; risk-limiting audits. Requires local electoral boards and general registrars to perform certain risk-limiting audits, defined in the bill, under the supervision of the Department of Elections and in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the State Board of Elections with a risk limit of at least 10 percent. The bill provides that localities are required to participate in such audits at least once every five years. The bill also provides that the Department shall submit a report on the results of such audits to the State Board. The provisions of the bill requiring that such audits be conducted (i) for at least one randomly selected contested race for the General Assembly in the year of a general election for members of the General Assembly and (ii) for any other contested race that is necessary to ensure that each locality participates in a risk-limiting audit of an office within its jurisdiction at least once every five years or that the State Board finds appropriate have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023. The provision of the bill requiring that such audits be conducted for at least one randomly selected contested race for an office that requires certification by the State Board in the year of general election for any local office has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024. The bill also requires the Department to convene a work group to consider and propose a process and timeline for implementing risk-limiting audits of statewide contests.

Elections; local electoral boards & general registrars to perform certain risk-limiting audits, etc.

Sen. John Bell [D]

Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

2022-03-02 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-25 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 1-N) (Y: 20 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2022-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A) (Y: 25 N: 14 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2022-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-01 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (10-Y 5-N) (Y: 10 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-04-11		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0444)
2022-04-11		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 444 (effective - see bill)
2022-03-22		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
2022-03-22	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
2022-03-08	House	Signed by Speaker
2022-03-08	Senate	Signed by President
2022-03-07	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB370ER)
2022-03-07	Senate	Enrolled
2022-03-02	House	VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2022-03-02	House	Passed House (100-Y 0-N)
2022-03-02	House	Read third time
2022-03-01	House	Read second time
2022-02-25	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 1-N)
2022-02-21	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2022-02-21	House	Read first time
2022-02-21	House	Placed on Calendar
2022-02-11	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A)
2022-02-10	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB370S1
2022-02-10	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 22105850D-S1
2022-02-10	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2022-02-10	Senate	Read second time
2022-02-09	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2022-02-08	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2022-02-01	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2022-02-01	Senate	Committee substitute printed 22105850D-S1
2022-02-01	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
2022-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2022-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104252D

HB895 (Same As) 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443)
HB895 (Same As) 2022-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	669	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	671	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	671.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	671.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	679	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB370
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB370+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB370S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB370ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0444+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22105572D.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22105850D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB370F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB370FS1122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB370FER122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S08V0058+SB0370
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S05V0122+SB0370
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0291SB0370+SB0370
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0342SB0370+SB0370
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H18V0092+SB0370
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+HV1374+SB0370