| VA | SB1150 | Pass | Obsolescence of 2011 district descriptions; legal boundaries. Repeals Code provisions related to the 2011 decennial redistricting, including descriptions of the districts enacted in that cycle, that are obsolete as a result of the 2021 decennial redi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-24
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 455 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | SB944 | Pass | Elections; filling vacancies in the General Assembly; certain vacancies to be filled within 30 days. Requires the writ of election to fill a vacancy in the membership of the General Assembly (i) to be issued within 30 days of the vacancy or receipt o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-23
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 306 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB2324 | Pass | Recount elections; recount standards; elections for offices to which more than one candidate can be elected. Directs the State Board of Elections to promulgate standards and instructions for the conduct of recounts in elections for any office to whic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0219) |
| VA | HB2443 | Pass | Certificates of election; persons elected by write-in votes; exception for certain localities. Provides that in an election for a local office in a locality with a population of no more than 4,000 persons, if the person having the highest number of v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0221) |
| VA | HB2471 | Pass | General registrars; petition for removal. Provides for the removal of a general registrar by the circuit court upon a petition signed by a majority of the members of the State Board of Elections or a majority of the members of the local electoral boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0256) |
| VA | SB1514 | Pass | General registrars; petition for removal. Provides for the removal of a general registrar by the circuit court upon a petition signed by a majority of the members of the State Board of Elections or a majority of the members of the local electoral boa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0257) |
| VA | SB1431 | Enroll
75% | Procedure for removal of elected and certain appointed officers by courts. Sets out the procedure by which, and clarifies the reasons for which, an elected officer or officer who has been appointed to fill an elective office may be removed from offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB1427 | Enroll
75% | Campaign finance; political action committees; certain large pre-election expenditures. Increases the number of scheduled reports for political action committees from four to five and changes the reporting dates for some reports. The bill requires po...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB1683 | Enroll
75% | Voter registration; final day of registration; notice requirements. Requires notice of the last day of voter registration to be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or city, if one is available. Such notice is a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB2024 | Enroll
75% | Personal information of judges and magistrates; penalty. Prohibits the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet the personal information of any active or retired federal or Virginia justice, judge, or magistrate who has made a demand in writing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB1948 | Enroll
75% | Elections; absentee voting; witness requirement; required information on return ballot envelope; unique identifier. Removes the witness requirement for absentee ballots and replaces it with the requirement that the voter provide the last four digits ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB1310 | Enroll
75% | Personal information of judges and magistrates; penalty. Prohibits the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet the personal information of any active or retired federal or Virginia justice, judge, or magistrate who has made a demand in writing t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB2289 | Enroll
75% | Procedure for removal of elected and certain appointed officers by courts. Sets out the procedure by which, and clarifies the reasons for which, an elected officer or officer who has been appointed to fill an elective office may be removed from offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB854 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB907 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB1053 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB1180 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB1442 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB1328 | Engross
50% | 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 | SB1471 | Engross
50% | 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 | HB1377 | Engross
50% | Voter registration; cancellation for persons known to be deceased or disqualified to vote; deadline. Requires the general registrar to cancel the voter registration of persons known by him to be deceased or disqualified to vote within seven days of d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1444 | Engross
50% | Elections; voter identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1693 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting; return of absentee ballots; drop-off locations. Repeals the provisions of the Code providing for the establishment of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1793 | Engross
50% | Voter registration through the Department of Motor Vehicles; optional transmission of information. Provides that customers of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall be presented with the option to have their relevant information transmitted to the De...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1877 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting; availability of absentee voting in person. Limits absentee voting in person to the two weeks immediately preceding an election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning on the forty-fifth day prior to an el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1947 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting; annual absentee voter list. Eliminates the permanent absentee voter list and provides for an annual absentee voter list by which any eligible voter who annually files an application and is enrolled on the list receives an absentee ba...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1680 | Engross
50% | Voter registration; registration after the close of registration records; required affirmation. Requires the Department of Elections to prescribe procedures for the handling and counting of ballots cast by persons who register to vote on the day of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB1910 | Engross
50% | Absentee voting; unsolicited absentee ballot applications; required information; penalty. Requires any organization sending an application for an absentee ballot to a registered voter that was not solicited or requested by the registered voter to inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N) |
| VA | HB2257 | Engross
50% | Elections; local offices; election of council for cities and towns; exemption from district-based and ward-based restrictions for small localities. Exempts any city or town with a population of 25,000 or fewer persons that imposes district-based or w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2234 | Engross
50% | Voter registration; registering in person up to and including the day of the election; limited to certain persons. Provides that only members of a uniformed service, as defined in relevant law, persons who are residing temporarily outside of the Unit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| VA | HB2454 | Engross
50% | Voter registration; monthly list maintenance. Requires the Department of Elections to conduct and complete voter list maintenance monthly using change of address information supplied by the United States Postal Service, except that such list maintena...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| VA | SB900 | Intro
25% | Voter identification; identification containing a photograph required. Requires presentation of a form of identification containing a photograph in order to vote. The bill repeals the provisions of law permitting a voter who does not have one of the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | SB946 | Engross
50% | Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising on any day the General Assembly is scheduled to meet during a special session. Currently, campaign fundraising is prohibited only during regular sessions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB1414 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1467 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1499 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1530 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1529 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1551 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1552 | Intro
25% | 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
25% | 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 | HB1901 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1648 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1751 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1812 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB2118 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB2049 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1847 | Intro
25% | 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 | HB1826 | Intro
25% | 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
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| VA | HB2308 | Intro
25% | 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 |
