Virginia House Bill 1952 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-1)
Status: Engrossed on January 29 2021 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-25 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; child care exception. Prohibits any person from converting any moneys, securities, or like intangible personal property contributed to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee to his personal use, the personal use of the candidate, or the personal use of a member of the candidate's immediate family. Current law prohibits such conversion of contributions to personal use specifically with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personal use" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill directs the Attorney General to issue an advisory opinion explaining the provisions of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006 that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any new regulations promulgated by the Board. Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; child care exception. Prohibits any person from converting any moneys, securities, or like intangible personal property contributed to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee to his personal use, the personal use of the candidate, or the personal use of a member of the candidate's immediate family. Current law prohibits such conversion of contributions to personal use specifically with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personal use" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill directs the Attorney General to issue an advisory opinion explaining the provisions of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006 that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any new regulations promulgated by the Board.

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use, child care exception.

Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler [D]	Del. Dan Helmer [D]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]
Del. Kathy Tran [D]	Del. Hala Ayala [D]	Del. Jeffrey Bourne [D]	Del. Lee Carter [D]
Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Karrie Delaney [D]	Del. Nancy Guy [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Chris Hurst [D]	Del. Mark Keam [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Mark Levine [D]
Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]	Del. Martha Mugler [D]	Del. Michael Mullin [D]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]
Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. David Reid [D]
Sen. Danica Roem [D]	Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]	Del. Mark Sickles [D]	Del. Shelly Simonds [D]
Sen. Suhas Subramanyam [D]	Del. Richard Sullivan [D]	Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2021-02-18 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (11-Y 2-N 2-A) (Y: 11 N: 2 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-01 - House - House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-27 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-21 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) (Y: 6 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-25	Senate	Left in Privileges and Elections
2021-02-23	Senate	Recommitted to Privileges and Elections
2021-02-23	Senate	Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
2021-02-23	Senate	Read third time
2021-02-22	Senate	Passed by for the day
2021-02-22	Senate	Read third time
2021-02-19	Senate	Passed by for the day
2021-02-19	Senate	Read third time
2021-02-19	Senate	Floor substitute printed 21200350D-S1 (Surovell)
2021-02-18	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-16	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections (11-Y 2-N 2-A)
2021-02-05	Senate	Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
2021-02-02	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2021-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2021-02-01	House	VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
2021-02-01	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
2021-01-29	House	Read second time and engrossed
2021-01-28	House	Read first time
2021-01-27	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N)
2021-01-21	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
2021-01-14	House	Assigned P & E sub: Campaign Finance
2021-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2021-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100991D

HB1952 (Carry Over) 2021-02-05 - Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	948.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1952
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1952+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1952S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/21200350D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+HB1952F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+oth+HB1952FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H1803C0001+HB1952
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+H18C0021+HB1952
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+HC1276+HB1952
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S08C0064+HB1952
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+S08V0007+HB1952
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+vot+SV0174HB1952+HB1952