Bill Text: VA SB1155 | 2013 | Regular Session | Prefiled
Bill Title: Electoral boards; appointments shall be on nonpartisan basis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-29 - Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N) [SB1155 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2013-SB1155-Prefiled.html
13102803D Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia: 1. That §24.2-106 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows: §24.2-106. Appointment and terms; vacancies; chairman and secretary; certain prohibitions; training. There shall be in each county and city an electoral board composed of three members who shall be appointed by a majority of the circuit judges of the judicial circuit for the county or city. If a majority of the judges cannot agree, the senior judge shall make the appointment. Any vacancy occurring on a board shall be filled by the same authority for the unexpired term. The clerk of the circuit court shall send to the State Board a copy of each order making an appointment to an electoral board.
The circuit judges of the judicial circuit for the county or city shall not appoint to the electoral board (i) any person who is the spouse of an electoral board member or the general registrar for the county or city, (ii) any person, or the spouse of any person, who is the parent, grandparent, sibling, child, or grandchild of an electoral board member or the general registrar of the county or city, or (iii) any person who is ineligible to serve under the provisions of this section. Electoral board members shall serve three-year terms and be
appointed to staggered terms, one term to expire at midnight on the last day of
February each year. No three-year term shall be shortened to comply with the The board shall elect one of its members as chairman and another
as secretary. The secretary of the electoral board shall immediately notify the State Board of any change in the membership or officers of the electoral board and shall keep the Board informed of the name, residence and mailing addresses, and home and business telephone numbers of each electoral board member. No member of an electoral board shall be eligible to offer for or hold an office to be filled in whole or in part by qualified voters of his jurisdiction. If a member resigns to offer for or hold such office, the vacancy shall be filled as provided in this section. No member of an electoral board shall be the spouse, grandparent, parent, sibling, child, or grandchild, or the spouse of a grandparent, parent, sibling, child, or grandchild, of a candidate for or holder of an elective office filled in whole or in part by any voters within the jurisdiction of the electoral board. No member of an electoral board shall serve as the chairman of a state, local or district level political party committee or as a paid worker in the campaign of a candidate for nomination or election to an office filled by election in whole or in part by the qualified voters of the jurisdiction of the electoral board. At least one member of the electoral board shall attend an annual training program provided by the State Board. |