| VA | SB406 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Prohibits any person from printing or circulating unofficial sample ballots unless they (i) are not printed on wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB315 | Engross
Sine Die | Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers, automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who is already registered to vote is to be automatically transmitted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB315 | Engross
Prefile | Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers, automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who is already registered to vote is to be automatically transmitted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB270 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice. The bill includes a reenactment clause. Electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB270 | Engross
Prefile | Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice. The bill includes a reenactment clause. Electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB406 | Engross
Prefile | Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Prohibits any person from printing or circulating unofficial sample ballots unless they (i) are not printed on wh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign fundraising; legislative sessions; enforcement of civil penalty. Provides that violations of the prohibition on campaign fundraising during legislative sessions are to be reported to the Attorney General who shall initiate civil proceedings ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1170 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; provisional voting procedures; type of identification to be noted. Requires officers of election to note on the green envelope used for persons voting provisionally the specific type of identification presented by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB932 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 14 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 14 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1176 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification containing photograph required; who may register up to and including the day of the election; absentee voting application requirements; absentee voting in person availability; return of absentee ballots. Requires prese...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1360 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1441 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; proof of citizenship. Requires any person applying to register to vote to provide proof of his United States citizenship. The bill provides that the general registrars shall reject any voter registration application not accompanie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1200 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the fourteenth day prior to election; hours of operation. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. During these two weeks, the bill requires that absentee v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR18 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; felon disenfranchisement; automatic restoration of voting rights. Provides that the General Assembly shall provide by general law an exemption to the prohibition that disqualifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1358 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; requirements for precincts; waiver for split precinct or precinct below the minimum size. Allows a governing body granted a waiver to administer a split precinct or directed to establish a precinct with fewer than the minimum number of reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB463 | Intro
Sine Die | Polling places; prohibited activities or conduct; application to locations for absentee voting in person. Clarifies that the provisions of law prohibiting certain activities or conduct in and around a polling place also apply to offices of the genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB280 | Intro
Sine Die | Insurrections; elections; prohibition from serving in position of public trust; civil penalty. Prohibits any person from serving in any position of public trust within the Commonwealth for life if such person is convicted of certain offenses related ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB629 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to personal use. Current law only pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB44 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 30 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 30 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HJR58 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); tax and finance; exempt property; affordable housing tax exemption. Provides that the General Assembly may by general law authorize the governing body of any county, city, town, or regional government to pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration by political party affiliation; partially closed primary elections. Adds party affiliation, beginning January 1, 2025, to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB433 | Intro
Sine Die | State legislative districts; how districts numbered. Sets out the manner of numbering to be followed when establishing the Senate and House of Delegates districts pursuant to Article II, Section 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia and relevant state ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB1304 | Intro
Sine Die | Required voting districts in certain cities. Requires every city with a population of 250,000 or greater to elect its council members by individual districts or wards, beginning with municipal elections held after January 1, 2025. The provisions of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Electors for President and Vice President; method of allocating electoral votes. Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors. The bill provides that the qualified voters of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB393 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; election reform. Requires Elections; election reform. Requires that the general register of each locality publish on the official website of the locality (i) monthly, a list of all registered voters added to or removed from each precinct i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1532 | Intro
Sine Die | Relating to voter registration; list of registered voters and persons voting at elections. Requires the Department of Elections to provide digital lists of all registered voters and of persons who voted at any primary, special, or general election he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB750 | Intro
Sine Die | Candidates for office; electronic petitions. Allows for the collection of signatures by electronic means, requires the State Board of Elections to prescribe candidate petitions forms in both paper and electronic formats, and provides formal requireme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB190 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates. Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1302 | Intro
Sine Die | Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Timing of local elections. Allows a city or town by majority vote of the local governing body to hold its municipal elections on the first Tuesday in May for terms to commence July 1, in which case the terms of council members shall be extended by si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HB79 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; times for special elections; held on the same day as a primary election. Permits a special election to be held on the same day as a primary election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB465 | Intro
Sine Die | Election administration; deputy general registrars; recommended number. Requires the State Board of Elections to adopt guidance for determining the recommended number of deputy registrars to serve in a county or city based on the size of the county's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB874 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB668 | Intro
Sine Die | Timing of local elections. Provides that a locality may by ordinance shift the timing of the election of members of the local governing body from an even year to an odd year by extending the existing terms of local governing body members by one year....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1439 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration by political party affiliation; partially closed primary elections. Adds party affiliation, beginning January 1, 2025, to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| VA | HJR19 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2029 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1315 | Intro
Sine Die | Elected officials; Internet publication of personal information; definition of public official. Adds to the definition of "public official" any elected official for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet the pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1023 | Intro
Sine Die | Polling places; prohibited activities or conduct; application to locations for absentee voting in person. Clarifies that the provisions of law prohibiting certain activities or conduct in and around a polling place also apply to offices of the genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1189 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; ascertainment of results; random hand count audits. Requires the electoral board of each locality to randomly select one polling place within its jurisdiction in which votes were cast using a voting system for a full h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB565 | Intro
Prefile | Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers; automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who indicates that he is already registered to vote is to be automat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; counting ballots prior to the close of polls. Allows officers of election at a central absentee precinct to begin ascertaining and recording the number of votes cast by absentee ballots at any time after noon on the day of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR9 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB363 | Intro
Sine Die | Disqualification from office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; affidavit of eligibility for candidates for elective office; removal from office for current officeholders. Provides that any person who is fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB363 | Intro
Prefile | Disqualification from office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; affidavit of eligibility for candidates for elective office; removal from office for current officeholders. Provides that any person who is fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB565 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers; automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who indicates that he is already registered to vote is to be automat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR1 | Intro
Prefile | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); fundamental right to reproductive freedom. Provides that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom and that the right to make and effectuate one's own decisions about all matters re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB375 | Intro
Sine Die | Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB375 | Intro
Prefile | Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
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