Virginia Senate Bill 1400 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 22 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-01-27 - Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 2-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits a person, other than a political party committee or political action committee, from making any single contribution or any combination of contributions that exceeds $10,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the General Assembly in a primary or other method of political party nomination immediately preceding the general or special election, or $20,000 to any such candidate in any one election cycle. The bill also prohibits political action committees from making any single contribution or any combination of contributions that exceeds $25,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the General Assembly in a primary or other method of political party nomination immediately preceding the general or special election, or $50,000 to any such candidate in any one election cycle. Compliance with these limitations is a requirement for candidacy for those offices. No limits are placed on contributions made by political party committees or by a candidate to his own campaign. Civil penalties for violations of the limits may equal up to two times the excess contribution amounts.

Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits, civil penalty.

Sen. John Petersen [D]

2015-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-27	Senate	Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 2-N)
2015-01-23	Senate	Assigned to P&E sub: Campaigns
2015-01-22	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2015-01-22	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 15103777D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	948.5	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.9	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	953.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB1400
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1400+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S08V0063+SB1400