Virginia Senate Bill 1061 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 2 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-24 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Elections; electronic pollbooks; photographs. Requires electronic pollbooks to contain a photograph and identifying information received by the State Board of Elections from the Department of Motor Vehicles for each registered voter for whom the Department of Motor Vehicles has such a photograph and identifying information. Lists of voters furnished pursuant to current law are prohibited from containing any voter's photograph or identifying physical information. The bill also provides that if the electronic pollbook contains the voter's photograph and identifying information, the officer of election is required to access that photograph and identifying information and the voter is not required to present one of the statutorily required forms of identification. Additionally, the bill requires the officer of election to challenge the voter's vote if the voter does not appear to be the same person depicted in the photograph or in the pollbook. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2016.

Electronic pollbooks; photographs and identifying information for each voter.

Sen. Mark Obenshain [R]

2015-02-13 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (14-Y 6-N) (Y: 14 N: 6 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-12 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2015-01-29 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-24	House	Left in Appropriations
2015-02-18	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2015-02-13	House	Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay
2015-02-13	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2015-02-13	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (14-Y 6-N)
2015-02-12	House	Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
2015-02-12	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N)
2015-02-06	House	Assigned P & E sub: Elections
2015-02-06	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2015-02-06	House	Read first time
2015-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2015-02-03	Senate	Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-03	Senate	Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-03	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 1-A)
2015-02-02	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB1061S2
2015-02-02	Senate	Substitute by Senator Obenshain agreed to 15104676D-S2
2015-02-02	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2015-02-02	Senate	Committee substitute rejected 15104321D-S1
2015-02-02	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2015-02-02	Senate	Read second time
2015-02-02	Senate	Floor substitute printed 15104676D-S2 (Obenshain)
2015-01-30	Senate	Passed by for the day
2015-01-29	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2015-01-27	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
2015-01-27	Senate	Committee substitute printed 15104321D-S1
2015-01-22	Senate	Assigned to P&E sub: Campaigns
2015-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2015-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100744D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	404	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	611	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	643	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	651	(n/a)	See Bill Text
46	2	208.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB1061
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1061+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1061S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1061S2+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S08V0054+SB1061
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0160SB1061+SB1061
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0210SB1061+SB1061
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0212SB1061+SB1061
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0213SB1061+SB1061
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+H1804V0032+SB1061
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+H18V0130+SB1061