Virginia House Bill 263 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2018 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2018-02-01 - VOTE: ENGROSSMENT REFUSED (2-Y 95-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Public financing of elections; Virginia Democracy Voucher Program. Establishes the Virginia Democracy Voucher Program, by which every registered voter in the Commonwealth receives $100 in Democracy Vouchers. The bill permits these vouchers to be assigned to and redeemed by any candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the General Assembly who has been certified as qualified by the Department of Elections. The bill provides that candidates who wish to qualify for participation in the voucher program must receive a minimum number of qualifying contributions, defined in the bill as contributions of at least $10 but not more than $500 in the aggregate from any one person or entity in an election cycle, from residents of the Commonwealth and are required to comply with limits on campaign contributions and campaign spending.

Virginia Democracy Voucher Program; established.

Del. Marcus Simon [D]	Del. Lee Carter [D]	Del. Wendy Gooditis [D]	Del. Patrick Hope [D]
Del. Mark Levine [D]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]	Del. Mark Sickles [D]

2018-02-01 - House - House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT REFUSED (2-Y 95-N) (Y: 2 N: 95 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2018-02-01 - House - House: VOTE: REJECTED (48-Y 50-N) (Y: 48 N: 50 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2018-01-26 - House - House: Reported from Rules without Recommendation (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-02-01	House	VOTE: ENGROSSMENT REFUSED (2-Y 95-N)
2018-02-01	House	Engrossment refused by House (2-Y 95-N)
2018-02-01	House	VOTE: REJECTED (48-Y 50-N)
2018-02-01	House	Motion to refer to Appropriations committee rejected (48-Y 50-N)
2018-02-01	House	Passed by temporarily
2018-02-01	House	Read second time
2018-01-31	House	Passed by for the day
2018-01-30	House	Read first time
2018-01-26	House	Reported from Rules without Recommendation (14-Y 0-N)
2018-01-03	House	Referred to Committee on Rules
2018-01-03	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18100120D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	960	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	966	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB263
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB263+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+H20V0024+HB0263
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV0226+HB0263
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+vot+HV0227+HB0263