Virginia House Bill 1847 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-07 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Elections; registration, absentee, and conduct of election. Elections; registration, absentee, and conduct of election. Restores the local option to hold May elections; repeals laws permitting registration on election day and requiring preregistration of certain persons under 18 years of age; eliminates the permanent absentee voter list; removes provisions allowing general registrars to contract with a third party for the printing, assembly, and mailing of absentee ballot packets; requires an excuse to vote absentee; reduces absentee voting in person to the 10 days prior to the date of an election; requires that mailed absentee ballots be returned by the United States Postal Service; repeals provisions allowing for absentee ballot drop boxes; requires absentee ballots to be received by the general registrar by the close of polls on election day in order to be counted; requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote; repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement that he is the named registered voter he claims to be; and requires that provisional ballot envelopes have written on them certain required information in order to be considered, including the signature of the officer of election administering the provisional ballot and his indication of whether photo identification was shown, and if so, the type. The bill also amends provisions regarding risk-limiting audits to allow for (i) risk-limiting audits of the part of a district that covers multiple localities that lies in a single locality and (ii) the use of the batch comparison method when conducting a risk-limiting audit.

Elections; registration, absentee, and conduct of election.

Del. Dave LaRock [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-07	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2023-01-12	House	Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #1
2023-01-10	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2023-01-10	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23102822D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1400	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	1004	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	403.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	404	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	411.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	420.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	452	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	612	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	643	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	653	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	653.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	671.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	700	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	701	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	701.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	702.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	703.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	703.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	706	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	707	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	707.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	709	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	709.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+HB1847
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+HB1847+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23105025D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+HB1847F122+PDF