Virginia House Bill 953 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-12 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Office of the Attorney General; mandatory employment of special counsel for the State Board of Elections under certain circumstances. Provides that whenever the Attorney General is entitled to have his name printed on the ballot in a general or special election, he shall recuse himself from providing legal services to the State Board of Elections and employ special counsel to provide such services. The bill requires the compensation for the special counsel to be paid out of the appropriation for the Attorney General's office.

Elections, State Board of; Attorney General to recuse himself, special counsel mandatory employment.

Del. Robert Brink [D]

2014-01-31 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N) (Y: 21 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2014-01-29 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-12	House	Left in Appropriations
2014-02-05	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2014-01-31	House	Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay
2014-01-31	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2014-01-31	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N)
2014-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
2014-01-10	House	Assigned P & E sub: Campaign Finance Subcommittee
2014-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2014-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14101474D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	510.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB953
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB953+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H1802V0013+HB0953
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+vot+H18V0020+HB0953