Virginia Senate Bill 613 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Passed on March 7 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-07 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0166)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Candidate petitions in primaries and general elections. Provides that candidate petitions in primaries and general elections must be witnessed by a legal resident of the Commonwealth who attests that he is not a minor or a felon whose voting rights have not been restored. Current law requires that the petition witness must be eligible to vote for the office for which the petition is being circulated. The bill also provides that presidential candidates are eligible to witness their own petitions. The bill contains an emergency clause.

Candidate petitions for primaries and general elections; requirements for petition circulators.

Sen. Creigh Deeds [D]

Sen. John Edwards [D]

2012-02-21 - House - House: VOTE: PASSAGE EMERGENCY (95-Y 4-N) (Y: 96 N: 4 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-02-17 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-N) (Y: 22 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-01-30 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 5-N) (Y: 35 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-01-24 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 1-N) (Y: 14 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-07		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0166)
2012-03-07		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 166 (effective 3/7/12)
2012-02-27		Senate: Signed by President
2012-02-24		House: Signed by Speaker
2012-02-24		Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB613ER)
2012-02-24		Senate: Enrolled
2012-02-21		House: VOTE: PASSAGE EMERGENCY (95-Y 4-N)
2012-02-21		House: Passed House (95-Y 4-N)
2012-02-21		House: Read third time
2012-02-20		House: Read second time
2012-02-17		House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-N)
2012-02-13		House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2012-02-13		House: Read first time
2012-02-13		House: Placed on Calendar
2012-01-30		Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 5-N)
2012-01-27		Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB613S1
2012-01-27		Senate: Emergency clause added
2012-01-27		Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 12104644D-S1
2012-01-27		Senate: Reading of substitute waived
2012-01-27		Senate: Read second time
2012-01-26		Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2012-01-24		Senate: Committee substitute printed 12104644D-S1
2012-01-24		Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 1-N)
2012-01-19		Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2012-01-19		Senate: Presented and ordered printed 12104163D
2012-01-19		Senate: Unanimous consent to introduce

HB1133 (Same As) 2012-04-04 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0538)

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	506	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	521	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	543	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+sum+SB613
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB613+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB613S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+SB613ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0166+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+S08V0026+SB0613
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+SV0138SB0613+SB0613
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+SV0167SB0613+SB0613
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+H18V0109+SB0613
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+vot+HV0966+SB0613