Virginia House Bill 848 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-12-04 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; unlawful conversion of political contributions to personal use; penalty. Prohibits any person from converting any moneys, securities, or like intangible personal property that has been contributed to a candidate, a campaign committee, or a political committee to his personal use or the personal use of any other person. A contribution is considered to be converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense not related to the ordinary and necessary expenses related to seeking, holding, or maintaining public office or carrying out the ordinary activities of the committee. The bill provides that a violation of the prohibition is a Class 1 misdemeanor. 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 also requires the State Board of Elections to provide, upon request, formal advisory opinions regarding the permitted and prohibited uses of contributions and publish such opinions on the Department of Elections website.

Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; unlawful conversion of political contributions to personal use.

Del. Marcus Simon [D]

Del. Alfonso Lopez [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-12-04	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2020-01-24	House	Continued to 2021 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
2020-01-24	House	Incorporates HB1218 (Tran)
2020-01-24	House	Incorporates HB1299 (Kory)
2020-01-24	House	Incorporates HB1574 (M.L. Cole)
2020-01-24	House	Committee substitute printed to LIS only 20106011D-H1
2020-01-23	House	Subcommittee recommends continuing to 2021 by voice vote
2020-01-13	House	Assigned P & E sub: Campaign Finance
2020-01-07	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-01-07	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102811D

HB848 (Carry Over) 2020-01-24 - Continued to 2021 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	945.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	949.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	950.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	951.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	952.7	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+HB848
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB848+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+HB848H1+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+HB848F122+PDF