| VA | HB26 | Veto | Voter identification; accepted forms of identification; private entities licensed or certified by certain state agencies. Adds to the list of accepted forms of identification for purposes of voting a valid identification card that contains a photogra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB623 | Veto | Rights of voters; covered practices; civil cause of action; standing, jurisdiction, and venue. Provides that, in addition to voters who are members of a protected class and the Attorney General, any organization whose membership includes voters who a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB939 | Veto | Elections administration; certain activities or conduct prohibited at polling places applicable to locations for absentee voting in person; prohibited possession of firearm within 100 feet of certain locations. Clarifies that the provisions of law pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1534 | Veto | Elections; challenges to voter or voter's registration; challenges to candidate qualifications or eligibility. Eliminates the process by which any voter could challenge, in a polling place on the day of an election, the right of any other voter to ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
House sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | HB1330 | Pass | Absentee voting; persons confined awaiting trial or for conviction of a misdemeanor. Provides that any registered voter who is confined while awaiting trial or for having been convicted of a misdemeanor may vote by absentee ballot and requires the in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0553) |
| VA | HB989 | Pass | Elections administration; duties of the Department of Elections; required election and voter participation information on the Internet. Requires the Department of Elections to provide information for voters on its website, including (i) the role of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0406) |
| VA | SB605 | Pass | Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of "person with a disability"; training. Amends the definition of "person with a disability" for purposes of the Elections title to mean any person who has a physical or mental im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0515) |
| VA | HB940 | Pass | Elections administration; change to location of polling place, additional notice requirement. Requires notice of a change in the location of a polling place to be posted, to the extent practicable, at the location last used for such polling place on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0461) |
| VA | HB441 | Pass | Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of "person with a disability"; training. Amends the definition of "person with a disability" for purposes of the Elections title to mean any person who has a physical or mental im...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0191) |
| VA | HB1171 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting; processing absentee ballots returned before election day; processing upon receipt. Requires the general registrars to complete the initial processing of absentee ballots that are returned before election day within three business day...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| VA | HB1490 | Engross
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1490 | Engross
Prefile | Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; days and hours of operation. Authorizes the governing body of any county or city establishing voter satellite offices for absentee voting in person to prescribe, by ordinance, the dates and hours of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To Senate 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 | 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
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB841 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Rules 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 | 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 | HJR2 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | HB694 | Intro
Prefile | 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 | HB43 | Intro
Sine Die | Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of disability. Expands the definition of disability for purposes of providing assistance outside of a polling place to voters with disabilities to include any permanent or tempora...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| VA | HB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; absentee voting; electronic ballot return. Elections; absentee voting; electronic ballot return. Requires that the Department of Elections establish an electronic transmission system through which a military or overseas voter or voter with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Tabled in Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-N) |
| VA | HB1172 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; voter satellite offices; minimum number required. Requires that absentee voting in person be available in the office of the general registrar and in any voter satellite office that the governing body of any county or city chooses to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| VA | HB1222 | Intro
Sine Die | Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of disability. Expands the definition of disability for purposes of providing assistance outside of a polling place to voters with disabilities to include developmental disabiliti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| VA | HB658 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB658 | Intro
Prefile | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SJR2 | 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] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB42 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to the three-week period immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB45 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| VA | SB81 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SJR2 | Intro
Prefile | 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] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
