Virginia Senate Bill 1471 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-22 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's dependent care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections. Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's dependent care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.

Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. George Barker [D]	Sen. Dave Marsden [D]	Sen. Scott Surovell [D]
Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. Jennifer McClellan [D]

2023-02-15 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2023-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2023-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) (Y: 16 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2023-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendments (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-22	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2023-02-15	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
2023-02-14	House	Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2
2023-02-08	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2023-02-08	House	Read first time
2023-02-08	House	Placed on Calendar
2023-02-06	Senate	Printed as engrossed 23104251D-E
2023-02-06	Senate	Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2023-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended SB1471E
2023-02-06	Senate	Committee amendments agreed to
2023-02-06	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2023-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2023-02-03	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2023-02-02	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N)
2023-01-24	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2023-01-24	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendments (15-Y 0-N)
2023-01-16	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2023-01-16	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 23104251D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
2	2	3711	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	946	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.6	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.7	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	948.8	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+sum+SB1471
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1471+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+ful+SB1471E+hil
Amendment	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+amd+SB1471AS
Amendment	https://committees.lis.virginia.gov/pdfs/drafts/23105415A.pdf
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1471F160+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1471F122+PDF
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+oth+SB1471FE122+PDF
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S08V0036+SB1471
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+S05V0266+SB1471
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0243SB1471+SB1471
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0276SB1471+SB1471
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+SV0280SB1471+SB1471
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?231+vot+H1802V0019+SB1471