Virginia Senate Bill 490 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 12 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-02-02 - Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act; applying for and casting military-overseas ballots. Provides that any active duty member of a uniformed service who has been called to duty for deployment to a combat zone shall be permitted to use his digital signature associated with his Common Access Card issued by the U.S. Department of Defense to sign his application for a military-overseas ballot, the statement of voter accompanying his cast military-overseas ballot, and any other related documents. The bill also requires the system through which a covered voter may apply for and receive voter registration materials, military-overseas ballots, and other information to be capable of accepting the submission of voted military-overseas ballots cast by an active duty member of a uniformed service who has been called to duty for deployment to a combat zone.

Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act; applying for and casting military-overseas ballots.

Sen. Bill DeSteph [R]

Sen. Ryan McDougle [R]

Sen. Bryce Reeves [R]

2016-02-02 - Senate - Senate: Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 6-N) (Y: 6 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-02	Senate	Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 6-N)
2016-01-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2016-01-12	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/16 16103934D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	455	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	458.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+sum+SB490
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+ful+SB490+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?161+vot+S08V0047+SB0490