Virginia Senate Bill 1376 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2021 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-01-26 - Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Absentee voting; processing of absentee ballots before election day; reporting of absentee ballot vote totals; central absentee voter precincts. Requires certain actions to be taken to process absentee ballots returned before the day of the election, including opening sealed ballot envelopes and inserting the ballot into a ballot container or counting machine. The bill requires the establishment of a central absentee voter precinct in each locality; currently, establishment is optional. On the day of the election, officers of election are required to begin processing absentee ballots in the central absentee voter precincts prior to the close of the polls but that no ballot vote counts are permitted to be transmitted outside of the central absentee voter precinct before the close of the polls; a violation of such prohibition is a Class 1 misdemeanor. When reporting election results to the Department of Elections, the general registrars are required to report absentee ballots cast early in person separately from all other absentee ballots. The bill contains technical amendments for organizational and readability purposes.

Absentee voting; processing of absentee ballots before election day.

Sen. Richard Saslaw [D]

Sen. Scott Surovell [D]

2021-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-01-26	Senate	Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
2021-01-13	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2021-01-13	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101782D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	603	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	667.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	709.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	710	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	711	(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+SB1376
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+ful+SB1376+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+oth+SB1376F122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?211+vot+S08V0046+SB1376