Virginia Senate Bill 244 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-01-31 - Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Primary elections; voter registration by political party. Adds party affiliation to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. The bill requires the State Board of Elections, in September 2012, to notify all registered voters of the new party registration law and send them a return card to indicate their party affiliation or independent status. Voters may change their party affiliation or independent status by written notice at any time before the registration records are closed in advance of an election. The state party chairman must notify the State Board by January 31 of each year whether the party will close or open its primaries. Further, the bill (i) adds a requirement that primary candidate petitions must be signed by voters registered as members of the party conducting the primary, (ii) sets the required number of petition signatures at one percent of the number of voters registered as members of the party in the election district where the primary is being held, and (iii) allows an official political party to retain that status so long as at least 15 percent of the Commonwealth's registered voters are registered as members of that party.

Primary elections; adds party affiliation to information an applicant to provide when registering.

Sen. Mark Obenshain [R]

2012-01-31 - Senate - Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-01-31		Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
2012-01-31		Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
2012-01-31		Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
2012-01-10		Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2012-01-10		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12102755D

SB62 (Similar To) 2012-02-09 - Senate: Defeated by Senate (16-Y 24-N)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	101	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	418.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	423.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	516.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	521	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	530	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	535	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+SB244
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB244+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+S08V0037+SB0244