Virginia Senate Bill 821 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 3 2017 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-02-06 - Read third time and defeated by Senate (11-Y 29-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Voter registration by political party affiliation; primary elections. Adds party affiliation, beginning January 1, 2018, to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. Voters registered prior to January 1, 2018, will be designated as independent unless they provide a political party designation in writing to the general registrar. Voters may change their party affiliation or independent status by written notice at any time before the registration records are closed prior to an election. The state party chairman of each political party must notify the State Board of Elections by January 31 of each year of the rules adopted by the duly constituted authorities of the state political party governing who may participate in the party's primaries held from April 1 of that year through March 31 of the following year.

Primary elections; adds political party affiliation to information for voter registration.

Sen. John Cosgrove [R]

2017-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and defeated by Senate (11-Y 29-N) (Y: 11 N: 29 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2017-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (7-Y 6-N) (Y: 7 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-06	Senate	Read third time and defeated by Senate (11-Y 29-N)
2017-02-03	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2017-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-01-31	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections (7-Y 6-N)
2016-11-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2016-11-07	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100640D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	418.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	423.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	516.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	530	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	535	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB821
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB821+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S08V0107+SB0821
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0254SB0821+SB0821
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0303SB0821+SB0821