| VA | SB907 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections; protection of election officials; penalty. Adds to the list of protected voters any election official or employee of an election official. Protected voters are permitted by law to provide on the application for voter registration, in addit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1442 | Engross
Sine Die | Conduct of election; abstract of votes; law-enforcement officer to obtain returns not forwarded; extension to 10 days. Extends the period of time a locality has to forward its abstract of votes to the State Board of Elections before a law-enforcement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB854 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1328 | Engross
Sine Die | Removal of elected officers and certain appointed officers; petition for removal. Requires signatures for a petition for removal of an officer to be collected within 90 days. No signatures on such petition shall be collected (i) within 75 days of a p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1180 | Engross
Sine Die | Elections administration; acceptance of certain services permitted. Provides that (i) the acceptance of technical assistance, research, or subject matter expertise regarding election law, policies, and administration by any state or local elections o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1471 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB1053 | Engross
Sine Die | Campaign finance; mandatory electronic filing for all candidates. Requires all candidates to file their campaign finance reports electronically with the State Board of Elections. The bill provides an exemption for any candidate who is incapable of ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1552 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1796 | Intro
Sine Die | Officers of election; eligibility of persons preregistered to vote. Allows any person who has preregistered to vote to serve as an officer of election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2049 | Intro
Sine Die | Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place; definition of disability. Limits the entitlement of voters with disabilities to vote outside the polls to those whose disability prevents them from entering the polling place. Expands the de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR531 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); personal property tax; exemption. Provides that property owned by a chartered organization and used solely for the purpose of supporting one or more scouting units holding a charter issued by the Boy Scouts...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR462 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); personal property tax; exemption for motor vehicles owned for personal, noncommercial use. Requires the General Assembly to exempt from personal property taxes motor vehicles owned by an individual for pers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR460 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as well as the related provisions that are no longer valid as a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR485 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); local property tax exemption; property owned by low-income households. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize a county, city, or town to provide for an exemption from local property taxation of pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR524 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); environmental justice. Establishes that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to follow the principles of environmental justice in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1551 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2118 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of supervis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR474 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); Board of Education; repeal; transfer powers and duties to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Repeals the Board of Education and transfers its constitutional powers and duties to the Superintendent of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR459 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; 16-year-olds permitted to vote. Provides that, notwithstanding the requirement that a voter shall be 18 years of age, any person who is 16 years of age or older and is otherwise qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR520 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote. Provides that every person who meets the qualifications of voters set forth in the Constitution of Virginia shall have the fundamental ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2301 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR553 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage between two individuals; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; affirmative right to marry. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1751 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; local governing bodies, school boards, and primaries for any office. Allows ranked choice voting to be used in any state-run primary election at the option of the political party for which the pri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR532 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2436 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; primaries for federal, statewide, and General Assembly offices. Permits political parties to hold primary elections for federal or statewide offices or offices in the General Assembly by ranked ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR458 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendments (first reference); General Assembly and local elected officials; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three consecutive terms and members of the House of Delegates to six consecutive terms. The amendments provide tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR473 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); right to farm. Provides that all individuals have a right to save and exchange seeds and a right to grow, raise, harvest, produce, exchange, barter, and consume the food of their own choosing for their own ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR498 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); tax and finance; exempt property; affordable housing tax exemption. Amends the Constitution of Virginia by providing that the General Assembly may by general law authorize the governing body of any county, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR509 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); public schools of high quality; right to access a school-based licensed mental health professional. Provides that each child attending public school has a right to access a school-based mental health profes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR457 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states. Makes application to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR517 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); real property tax exemption for new construction of housing. Allows the General Assembly to authorize the governing body of any county, city, or town to provide for the exemption from local real property ta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2212 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections administration; State Board of Elections duties; required election and voter participation information on the Internet. Requires the State Board of Elections to provide information for voters on its website, including (i) the role of and co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1862 | Intro
Sine Die | Electors for President and Vice President; binding of electors; vacancies. Provides that an elector who is selected by the state convention of any political party and who, at the convening of the electors after the election, refuses to present a ball...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1847 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; registration, absentee, and conduct of election. Elections; registration, absentee, and conduct of election. Restores the local option to hold May elections; repeals laws permitting registration on election day and requiring preregistratio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1529 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; candidates for office; political party nomination by non-primary method; filing fee. Allows political parties to charge a filing fee for methods of nomination other than a primary and sets a cap on such fee. The maximum filing fee is set a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1901 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting in person; available beginning on the fourteenth day prior to election; hours of operation. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. During these two weeks, the bill requires that absentee v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR497 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of certain members of the armed forces. Provides that the General Assembly may by general law exempt from taxation the real property of a surviving spouse of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1467 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; voter identification containing photograph Elections; voter identification containing photograph required; who may register up to and including the day of the election; availability of absentee voting in person; return of absentee ballots....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR505 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); rights of parents. Provides that parents have the right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children and that the Commonwealth shall not infringe these rights without demonstrating that i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR476 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR555 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; felon disenfranchisement; automatic restoration of voting rights. Provides that the General Assembly shall provide by general law an exemption to the prohibition that disqualifies ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1499 | Intro
Sine Die | Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to the two-week period immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the fort...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1648 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibited contributions from foreign-influenced corporations; required reports. Prohibits foreign-influenced corporations, as defined in the bill, from making independent expenditures or making contributions to a candidate, campaign committee, polit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HJR533 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of soldiers who died in the line of duty. Expands the current tax exemption for real property available to the surviving spouses of soldiers killed in action t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1812 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; foreign interference in elections; registration, Elections; foreign interference in elections; registration, absentee voting, and conduct of election; penalty. Requires the Attorney General to provide assessments and reports on foreign int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1414 | Intro
Sine Die | Form of ballot; party identification of candidates. Extends to elections for local and constitutional offices the requirement that candidates who have been nominated by a political party or in a primary election be identified on the ballot by name of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1530 | Intro
Sine Die | Deadline for parties to nominate by methods other than primary; special elections not held at a general election; extension to 10 days. Extends the period of time that parties have to nominate a candidate by a method other than a primary for a specia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2286 | Intro
Sine Die | Elections; campaign finance; contribution limits; civil penalty. Establishes contribution limits from any individual to any candidate campaign committee, political action committee, and political party committee and from any political action committe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2308 | Intro
Sine Die | Conduct of elections; electoral board to meet to ascertain results; permitted period of adjournment. Permits local electoral boards, when meeting after an election to ascertain the results of such election, to adjourn as needed for a period not to ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1826 | Intro
Sine Die | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
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