Virginia Senate Bill 742 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-24 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]

Elections; run-off elections. Provides that no candidate shall be deemed to have been elected at a general election to any statewide office or to the United States Senate unless such candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast for that office. The bill requires that when no candidate for an office receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast at the general election for that office, a run-off election between the candidates receiving the highest and next-highest number of votes for that office shall be held. However, no run-off election shall be held if the total number of write-in votes cast for an office and the total number of votes cast for the candidate receiving the highest number of votes for an office together equal more than 50 percent of the total votes cast for that office. The bill requires run-off elections to be held on the fourth Tuesday following the date of the certification of the results of the general election or, if a recount is conducted after the general election, on the fourth Tuesday following the date of the certification of the results of the recount, unless the fourth Tuesday falls on a legal holiday, in which case the run-off election will be held on the sixth Tuesday. The bill provides that for all other elections, including a general election of electors for the President and Vice President of the United States, the person having the highest number of votes for an office shall be deemed to have been elected to such office and shall receive the certificate of election. Under current law, except in the case of a recount, the person having the most votes cast at any election shall be deemed to have been elected to that office.

Elections; run-off elections.

Sen. Charles Carrico [R]

Sen. Ryan McDougle [R]

2015-02-09 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 16-N) (Y: 22 N: 16 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-24	House	Left in Appropriations
2015-02-11	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2015-02-11	House	Read first time
2015-02-11	House	Placed on Calendar
2015-02-09	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (22-Y 16-N)
2015-02-06	Senate	Printed as engrossed 15104374D-ES1
2015-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute with amendment SB742ES1
2015-02-06	Senate	Committee amendment agreed to
2015-02-06	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2015-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 15104374D-S1
2015-02-06	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2015-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2015-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-04	Senate	Reported from Finance with amendment (14-Y 0-N)
2015-01-28	Senate	Incorporates SB1397
2015-01-27	Senate	Rereferred to Finance
2015-01-27	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
2015-01-27	Senate	Committee substitute printed 15104374D-S1
2015-01-22	Senate	Assigned to P&E sub: Campaigns
2014-12-16	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2014-12-16	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15101178D

SB1397 (Similar To) 2015-01-27 - Incorporated by Privileges and Elections

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	673	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB742
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB742+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB742S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB742ES1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S08V0041+SB0742
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S05V0140+SB0742
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0281SB0742+SB0742
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0331SB0742+SB0742