Virginia Senate Bill 859 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 11 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-11 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1163)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Absentee voting; emergency absentee voting by and late applications for persons hospitalized; definition of hospital. Amends the definition of hospital, for purposes of emergency absentee voting by or late absentee ballot applications for persons who have been hospitalized, so that it is not limited to hospitals in Virginia, the District of Columbia, or a state contiguous to Virginia. The bill also removes the requirement that a person submitting a late absentee ballot application due to the hospitalization of himself or a member of his immediate family or to the death of a member of his immediate family must be absent from his county or city on election day in order to be eligible for the late absentee ballot application.

Absentee voting; emergency absentee voting by and late applications for persons hospitalized.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

2020-02-26 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-21 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-18 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-20 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N) (Y: 38 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-16 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-14 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-11		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1163)
2020-04-11		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 1163 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-12		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-12	Senate	Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
2020-03-06	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-05	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-04	Senate	Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB859ER)
2020-03-04	Senate	Enrolled
2020-02-26	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2020-02-26	House	Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2020-02-26	House	Read third time
2020-02-25	House	Read second time
2020-02-21	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 0-N)
2020-02-18	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
2020-02-14	House	Assigned P & E sub: Elections
2020-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-02-13	House	Read first time
2020-02-13	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-01-20	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
2020-01-17	Senate	Read second time and engrossed
2020-01-16	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-01-14	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 1-N)
2020-01-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-01-08	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103568D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	705	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	705.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB859
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB859+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB859ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP1163+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S08V0014+SB0859
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0057SB0859+SB0859
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0077SB0859+SB0859
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1801V0044+SB0859
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H18V0133+SB0859
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1542+SB0859