Virginia Senate Bill 1246 (Adjourned Sine Die)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 2 2021 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-02-08 - Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Absentee voting; mandatory processing of returned absentee ballots before election day; central absentee voter precinct in the office of the general registrar. Requires certain actions to be taken to process absentee ballots that are returned by mail before election day. The general registrar is required to examine the ballot envelopes to verify completion of the required voter affirmation; mark the pollbook, or the absentee voter applicant list if the pollbook is not available, that the voter has voted; and open the sealed ballot envelopes and insert the ballots in optical scan counting equipment or other secure ballot container without initiating any ballot count totals. Under current law, it is only required that the general registrar undertake at least one such activity before election day. To facilitate this preprocessing, the bill requires a central absentee voter precinct to be established in the office of the general registrar. Additional central absentee voter precincts may be established at the discretion of the governing body.

Absentee voting; mandatory processing of returned absentee ballots before election day.

Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]	Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]
Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]	Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2021-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2021-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-08	House	Continued to Special Session 1 in Privileges and Elections by voice vote
2021-02-07	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2021-02-07	House	Read first time
2021-02-07	House	Placed on Calendar
2021-02-02	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-02	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2021-02-02	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1246S1
2021-02-02	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 21103760D-S1
2021-02-02	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2021-02-02	Senate	Read second time
2021-02-01	Senate	Passed by for the day
2021-01-29	Senate	Passed by for the day
2021-01-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2021-01-26	Senate	Committee substitute printed 21103760D-S1
2021-01-26	Senate	Incorporates SB1376 (Saslaw)
2021-01-26	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
2021-01-11	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2021-01-11	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21100746D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	709.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	712	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+sum+SB1246
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1246+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1246S1+hil
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/21103760D.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB1246F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB1246FS1122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S08V0042+SB1246
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0161SB1246+SB1246
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0251SB1246+SB1246
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+SV0252SB1246+SB1246