VA Committee | House Privileges and Elections | Current
| State | Bill | Summary/Title | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| VA | SJR276 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 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] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SB724 | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that persons age 65 and older on the day of an election for which an absentee ballot is requested are entitled to vote absentee. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SJR266 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights. Provides that a person convicted of a nonviolent felony who has completed service of his sentence and paid in full any restitution, fines, costs, and fees assessed against him... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SB830 | Elections; absentee voting and procedures; secure return of voted military-overseas ballots. Directs the State Board of Elections to provide instructions and procedures so that uniformed-service voters can return voted military-overseas ballots secur... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SB968 | Absentee ballots. Provides that officers of election shall not reject an absentee ballot on the basis that the voter failed to include a middle name or initial on the ballot envelope if such failure is not material to determining whether the individu... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SJR303 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-mem... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SB739 | Voting devices; number required. Provides that there shall be at least one voting device for each 500 registered voters in a precinct. The current requirement is for one device for each 750 registered voters. The bill has a delayed effective date of ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | SB742 | Virginia Redistricting Commission created. Establishes a five-member commission to prepare redistricting plans for the House of Delegates, state Senate, and congressional districts. Appointments to the Commission shall be made one each by the four ma... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-23 |
| VA | HB1520 | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1774 | Hours polls to be open. Provides that polls shall close at 8:00 p.m. rather than 7:00 p.m. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1688 | House of Delegates Districts; technical adjustment. Changes district assignments of certain census blocks between Districts 10 and 33 in Clarke County in order to reflect a new precinct line. District 10 will have a deviation of 1.1 percent from the ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1710 | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that the parent or legal custodian of a child four years of age or younger and who is caring for such child in the home shall be entitled to vote absentee. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1891 | Officers of election. Provides that electoral boards shall appoint officers of election at a regular board meeting held at least 30 days before the November general election date, rather than during the first week of February as is currently required... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1898 | Candidate petitions; circulator requirements. Provides that a person who circulates a petition to place a candidate's name on the ballot and witnesses the signatures thereon shall include in his affidavit on the petition his name, age, residence addr... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1899 | Candidate petitions; appeal of disqualification for insufficient signatures. Provides standards and procedures for determining whether petition signatures are valid and an appeal procedure from a determination by the electoral board that the number o... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1921 | Absentee voting; declared state of emergency. Provides that in case of an emergency declared by the Governor, or declared by the President of the United States or the governor of another state and confirmed by the Governor, any registered voter whose... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1922 | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1937 | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2013 | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2015 | Voting by paper ballot. Provides that a voter is entitled to cast his vote using a paper ballot, even though mechanical or direct electronic voting systems are used where he votes. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2016 | Elections; polling hours. Extends the hour that polls close on election day from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2017 | Voting devices; number required. Provides that there shall be at least one voting device for each 500 registered voters in a precinct. The current requirement is for one device for each 750 registered voters. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2046 | General Assembly; filling vacancies in membership. Provides that the Governor, when issuing a writ of election to fill a vacancy in General Assembly membership when the Assembly is not in session, shall order the election to be held at the November g... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1592 | Elections; early voting. Provides that any registered voter qualified to vote in the election may vote in person from 19 to three days before the election at specified times and at the sites provided in the locality. The provisions for absentee votin... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2119 | Elections; early voting. Provides that any registered voter qualified to vote in the election may vote in person from 10 to three days before the election, or eight to three days before a special election, at the office of the general registrar or se... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2166 | Campaign finance; candidate campaign committees; investments. Authorizes the investment of campaign committee funds subject to the prudent investment standards applicable to Virginia Retirement System investments. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR539 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; executive clemency; restoration of right to vote. Provides that no person convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote unless he has completed service of his sentence, including... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR547 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; restoration of civil rights. Directs the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed servi... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR549 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 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] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2264 | Early voting in anticipation of certain emergencies. Provides that the Governor, Speaker of the House of Delegates, and President pro tempore of the Senate, acting jointly, may declare a weather-related emergency and order polls opened for early voti... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR601 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); free elections, method of voting. Provides that all elections ought to be convenient to the voter and equally provided for throughout the Commonwealth, and that provision shall be made in all elections oth... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR602 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to early childhood education. Requires the Board of Education to develop Learning Readiness Quality Standards for state-supported early learning programs. The General Assembly is mandated to allocate... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR603 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies who have completed service of their sentence inc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1342 | Elections; costs of primaries. Provides that the state will reimburse the localities for the costs of primary elections as funded by the general appropriation act. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR663 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Nonpartisan Redistricting Commission created. Provides for a seven-member temporary commission to prepare redistricting plans in 2021 and each tenth year thereafter for the House of Delegates, state Senate... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR664 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies who have completed service of their sentence, in... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR665 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defined marriage ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1348 | House of Delegates districts; technical adjustments. Makes technical changes in House of Delegates Districts 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 55, 59, 60, 64, 67, 7... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR672 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed se... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR674 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed se... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR585 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed se... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2204 | Polling places. Provides that no polling place shall be located in a public or private school building. [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR678 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); legislative sessions; term of Governor. Requires the General Assembly, beginning in 2017 and every fourth year thereafter, to adjourn its regular session for a period of 30 days after organizing but before... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2208 | Party nominating methods. Provides that no political party shall determine its candidates for statewide or General Assembly district office, the U.S. House of Representatives, or the U.S. Senate by a method that has the practical effect of excluding ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR679 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 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] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2299 | Elections; sample ballots and other information to be available in languages other than English. Provides that an electoral board that reasonably should expect a group of voters who cannot read or communicate in English to seek to vote at a precinct ... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB2051 | Charter; Town of Front Royal. Amends the town's charter by updating the boundary description. The bill also details the duties of town officers, updates references to the timing of elections, clarifies various town powers, and eliminates or updates n... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR563 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies who have completed service of their sentence inc... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HB1353 | Elections; absentee voting. Provides that qualified voters may vote absentee in person without providing an excuse or reason for not being able to vote in person on election day. The bill retains the present statutory list of specific reasons entitli... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
| VA | HJR564 | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly powers; limitations. Provides that the General Assembly may suspend or nullify any or all portions of any administrative rule or regulation by joint resolution agreed to by a majority of t... [Detail][Text] | 2013-02-05 |
