Virginia Senate Bill 591 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Engrossed on February 9 2018 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-03-02 - Continued to 2019 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Post-election audits. Defines "post-election audit" to mean a process conducted after an election to confirm the accurate reporting of the results of the election and directs the State Board of Elections to establish a work group tasked with developing standards and procedures for conducting post-election audits in the Commonwealth. The work group is required, at a minimum, to (i) consider the types of post-election audits available and being implemented in other states, (ii) recommend the type of post-election audit to be used in the Commonwealth, (iii) establish the process and procedures for conducting the recommended post-election audit, including the timeline, (iv) recommend actions to be taken if the post-election audit results indicate that the voting systems did not accurately count the ballots cast in the election, and (v) propose legislation for implementing the work group's recommendations. The work group is directed to submit an interim progress report by January 7, 2019, and a final report by December 1, 2019, to the Governor and the General Assembly. The bill repeals the current law regarding post-election risk-limiting audits.

Post-election audits; definition.

Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

Sen. Janet Howell [D]

2018-02-22 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 2-N) (Y: 4 N: 2 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-12 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) (Y: 38 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-08 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2018-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 2-N) (Y: 12 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-03-02	House	Continued to 2019 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
2018-02-22	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 2-N)
2018-02-15	House	Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2
2018-02-15	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2018-02-15	House	Read first time
2018-02-15	House	Placed on Calendar
2018-02-12	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
2018-02-12	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2018-02-09	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB591S1
2018-02-09	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 18106830D-S1
2018-02-09	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2018-02-09	Senate	Read second time
2018-02-08	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2018-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute printed 18106830D-S1
2018-02-06	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 2-N)
2018-01-09	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2018-01-09	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102749D

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

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+SB591
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB591+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+SB591S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+S08V0096+SB0591
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0431SB0591+SB0591
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+SV0368SB0591+SB0591
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H1802V0030+SB0591