Virginia Senate Bill 463 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 14 2022 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-08 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for his personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personal use" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. Any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections. Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for his personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personal use" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. Any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, review of complaints, civil penalty.

Sen. John Bell [D]

2022-03-02 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 3-N) (Y: 37 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2022-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-08	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2022-03-02	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2022-03-01	House	Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2
2022-02-18	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2022-02-18	House	Read first time
2022-02-18	House	Placed on Calendar
2022-02-15	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 3-N)
2022-02-14	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB463S1
2022-02-14	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 22106238D-S1
2022-02-14	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2022-02-14	Senate	Read second time
2022-02-11	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2022-02-10	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N)
2022-02-08	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2022-02-08	Senate	Committee substitute printed 22106238D-S1
2022-02-08	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (9-Y 6-N)
2022-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2022-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102785D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3711	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	946	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.7	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB463
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB463+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB463S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22105528D.pdf
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/22106238D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB463F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+SB463FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S08V0065+SB0463
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+S05V0254+SB0463
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0359SB0463+SB0463
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+SV0434SB0463+SB0463
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+vot+H1802V0029+SB0463