Virginia House Bill 779 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 11 2022 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-02-15 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Elections; photo identification required; time for in-person absentee; absentee ballots not accepted after election day; repeal of permanent absentee voter list. 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 one of the required forms of identification to vote after signing a statement, subject to felony penalties for false statements, that he is the named registered voter he claims to be. Instead, the bill provides that such voter is entitled to cast a provisional ballot. The bill also limits absentee voting in person to the week immediately preceding an election. The bill repeals the provisions of law by which any registered voter may apply to receive absentee ballots for all elections in which he is eligible to vote and remains on the list until the voter requests in writing to be removed from the list, the voter's registration is canceled or placed on inactive status pursuant to law, or the voter moves to a different address not in the same county or city of his registration. The bill also removes provisions allowing absentee ballots received after the close of polls to be counted.

Elections; photo identification required, time for in-person absentee.

Del. Wren Williams [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-02-15	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2022-01-11	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2022-01-11	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102174D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	404	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	411.3	(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	701	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	701.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	703.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	709	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB779
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB779+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+oth+HB779F122+PDF