Virginia House Bill 2774 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 18 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-02-05 - Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: House Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Minority language accessibility; voting and election materials. Requires the State Board of Elections to prescribe, and a covered locality to provide, voting and election materials in languages other than English. A county, city, or town is designated by the State Board as a covered locality if the State Board determines, in consultation with the Director of the Census, based on the 2010 American Community Survey census data and subsequent American Community Survey data in 5-year increments, or comparable census data, that (i) either (a) more than five percent of the citizens of voting age of such county, city, or town are members of a single language minority and are unable to speak or understand English adequately enough to participate in the electoral process, (b) more than 10,000 of the citizens of voting age of such county, city, or town are members of a single language minority and are unable to speak or understand English adequately enough to participate in the electoral process, or (c) in the case of a county, city, or town containing all or any part of an Indian reservation, more than five percent of the American Indian citizens of voting age within the Indian reservation are members of a single language minority and are unable to speak or understand English adequately enough to participate in the electoral process, and (ii) the illiteracy rate of the citizens of the language minority as a group is higher than the national illiteracy rate.

Minority language accessibility; voting and election materials.

Del. Kathy Tran [D]

Del. Elizabeth Guzman [D]

2019-01-31 - House - House: Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 4-N) (Y: 2 N: 4 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-02-05	House	Left in Privileges and Elections
2019-01-31	House	Subcommittee failed to recommend reporting (2-Y 4-N)
2019-01-21	House	Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2
2019-01-18	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2019-01-18	House	Presented and ordered printed 19103013D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	105	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	124	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB2774
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB2774+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1802V0019+HB2774