Virginia House Bill 1439 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-13 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Voter registration by political party affiliation; partially closed primary elections. Adds party affiliation, beginning January 1, 2025, to the information that an applicant is asked to provide when registering to vote. The applicant may indicate that he is an independent. The bill specifies that voters registered prior to January 1, 2025, will be designated as independent unless they provide a political party affiliation to the general registrar. Voters may change their political party affiliation or independent status by written notice at any time before the registration records are closed prior to an election. The bill also provides that voters who are on the permanent absentee voter list will receive primary ballots for the political party with which they are registered as affiliated. Finally, the bill requires the state party chairman of each political party to file written notice with the State Board of Elections by January 31 of each year stating the rules adopted by the duly constituted authorities of the state political party for participation in the party's primaries to be held from April 1 of that year through March 31 of the following year.

Voter registration by political party affiliation; partially closed primary elections.

Del. Bill Wiley [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-13	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2024-02-05	House	Subcommittee recommends incorporating (HB56-Wright) by voice vote
2024-02-02	House	Assigned P & E sub: Election Administration
2024-01-18	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2024-01-18	House	Presented and ordered printed 24104030D

HB56 (Similar To) 2024-02-13 - Left in Privileges and Elections

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	418.01	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	423.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	516.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	530	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	535	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	703.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB1439
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+HB1439+hil
Supplement	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+oth+HB1439F122+PDF