| VA | SB188 | Veto | 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] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB196 | Veto | Voter registration; list maintenance data standards; challenges to a voter's registration. Prohibits the use of voter data received from another state or jurisdiction or through a list comparison for list maintenance purposes when the data file does ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB300 | Veto | Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; required record matches; required identification information; data standards. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-17
Governor: Vetoed by Governor |
| VA | SB606 | Veto | Voter registration; list maintenance; data sharing; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Requires the Commissioner of Elections to apply for, enter into, and maintain membership for the Commonwealth in the El...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB428 | Veto | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Clarifies the requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires the results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be repor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Senate sustained Governor's veto |
| VA | SB364 | Pass | Elections; protection of electors and election officials; penalties. Adds to the list of protected voters any current or former elector for President and Vice President of the United States and any person who is or has been a member of the State Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0787) |
| VA | SB4 | Pass | Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Provides for a referendum at the November 5, 2024, election to approve or reject an amendment to the Constitution of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0395) |
| VA | SB165 | Pass | Elections; candidates for office; petition of qualified voters; start date. Clarifies the date from which valid signatures for petitions of qualified voters can be collected for persons seeking to become candidates in certain elections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498) |
| 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 | SB109 | Pass | Elections; candidates for office; conduct of primaries; declaration of candidacy. Provides that the declaration of candidacy include a statement that if the signer's name appears on the primary ballot and he is not nominated then his name is not to b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0264) |
| VA | SB131 | Pass | Primary elections; candidates for nomination; withdrawal of candidacy resulting in unopposed primary; primary cancellation and nomination procedure. Provides that if a person who is a candidate for nomination by a political party at a primary electio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0230) |
| VA | SB692 | Pass | Campaign finance; independent expenditure reports, electronic filing required. Requires independent expenditure reports to be filed electronically. Current law allows such reports to be filed either electronically or in writing. The bill has a delaye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0258) |
| VA | SB577 | Pass | Elections; campaign finance; exemptions for candidates for certain offices; directors of soil and water conservation districts. Provides that a candidate for director of a soil and water conservation district may also seek an exemption from the requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0124) |
| VA | SB301 | Fail | Campaign finance; appeal of penalties. Provides for an appeal process for any person or committee assessed a civil penalty under the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006. Upon petition, the State Board of Elections may provide relief to the petiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Failed to pass in Senate |
| VA | SB377 | Engross
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] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB377 | Engross
Prefile | 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] | 2024-02-28
To House Appropriations 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB107 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising by a member of the General Assembly or statewide official on any day the General Assembly is scheduled to meet during a special session. Currently, such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB326 | 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] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| VA | SB78 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
Read third time and defeated by Senate (19-Y 21-N) |
| VA | SB224 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; cancellation of registration by voter convicted of a felony; notice prior to cancellation. Requires the general registrar to mail a notice to all persons known by him to have been convicted of a felony prior to canceling any such ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| VA | SB147 | 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] | 2024-02-02
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules (7-Y 7-N) |
| VA | SB303 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to produce a printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that shows the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| 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 | SB32 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; verification of social security Voter registration; verification of social security numbers; provisional registration status. Requires the general registrar to verify that the name, date of birth, and social security number provid...
[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 | SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Voter registration; registering in person up to the day of the election. Provides that any person who is qualified to register to vote is only entitled to register in person up to the day of the election at the office of the general registrar in the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB167 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; candidates; declaration of candidacy for primary and write-in votes. Provides that the declaration of candidacy include a statement that if the signer's name appears on the primary ballot and he is not nominated then his name is not to be ...
[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 |
