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VASB406Engross
50%
Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee. Prohibits any person from printing or circulating unofficial sample ballots unless they (i) are not printed on wh...
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2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VASB315Engross
50%
Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers, automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who is already registered to vote is to be automatically transmitted...
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2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VASB270Engross
50%
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. The bill includes a reenactment clause. Electio...
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2024-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB643Intro
25%
Campaign fundraising; legislative sessions; enforcement of civil penalty. Provides that violations of the prohibition on campaign fundraising during legislative sessions are to be reported to the Attorney General who shall initiate civil proceedings ...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1170Intro
25%
Elections; conduct of election; provisional voting procedures; type of identification to be noted. Requires officers of election to note on the green envelope used for persons voting provisionally the specific type of identification presented by the ...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB932Intro
25%
Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 14 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 14 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1176Intro
25%
Elections; voter identification containing photograph required; who may register up to and including the day of the election; absentee voting application requirements; absentee voting in person availability; return of absentee ballots. Requires prese...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1360Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1441Intro
25%
Voter registration; proof of citizenship. Requires any person applying to register to vote to provide proof of his United States citizenship. The bill provides that the general registrars shall reject any voter registration application not accompanie...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1200Intro
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...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1358Intro
25%
Elections; requirements for precincts; waiver for split precinct or precinct below the minimum size. Allows a governing body granted a waiver to administer a split precinct or directed to establish a precinct with fewer than the minimum number of reg...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB463Intro
25%
Polling places; prohibited activities or conduct; application to locations for absentee voting in person. Clarifies that the provisions of law prohibiting certain activities or conduct in and around a polling place also apply to offices of the genera...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB280Intro
25%
Insurrections; elections; prohibition from serving in Insurrections; elections; prohibition from serving in position of public trust; civil penalty. Prohibits any person from serving in any position of public trust within the Commonwealth for life if...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB629Intro
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 to personal use. Current law only pro...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB44Intro
25%
Absentee voting; absentee voting in person; available beginning 30 days prior to election. Limits the availability of absentee voting in person to 30 days before the election. Under current law, absentee voting in person is available beginning 45 day...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB56Intro
25%
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 th...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB433Intro
25%
State legislative districts; how districts numbered. Sets out the manner of numbering to be followed when establishing the Senate and House of Delegates districts pursuant to Article II, Section 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia and relevant state ...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1304Intro
25%
Required voting districts in certain cities. Requires every city with a population of 250,000 or greater to elect its council members by individual districts or wards, beginning with municipal elections held after January 1, 2025. The provisions of t...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB490Intro
25%
Electors for President and Vice President; method of allocating electoral votes. Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors. The bill provides that the qualified voters of t...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB393Intro
25%
Elections; election reform. Requires Elections; election reform. Requires that the general register of each locality publish on the official website of the locality (i) monthly, a list of all registered voters added to or removed from each precinct i...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1532Intro
25%
Relating to voter registration; list of registered voters and persons voting at elections. Requires the Department of Elections to provide digital lists of all registered voters and of persons who voted at any primary, special, or general election he...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB750Intro
25%
Candidates for office; electronic petitions. Allows for the collection of signatures by electronic means, requires the State Board of Elections to prescribe candidate petitions forms in both paper and electronic formats, and provides formal requireme...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB190Intro
25%
Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates. Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1302Intro
25%
Election of certain governing bodies; conversion to single-member districts. Allows the governing body of a locality that has been subject to a court order imposing a remedial election system under voting rights laws to adopt an ordinance to convert ...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB345Intro
25%
Timing of local elections. Allows a city or town by majority vote of the local governing body to hold its municipal elections on the first Tuesday in May for terms to commence July 1, in which case the terms of council members shall be extended by si...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB79Intro
25%
Elections; times for special elections; held on the same day as a primary election. Permits a special election to be held on the same day as a primary election.
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB465Intro
25%
Election administration; deputy general registrars; recommended number. Requires the State Board of Elections to adopt guidance for determining the recommended number of deputy registrars to serve in a county or city based on the size of the county's...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB874Intro
25%
Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, ...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB668Intro
25%
Timing of local elections. Provides that a locality may by ordinance shift the timing of the election of members of the local governing body from an even year to an odd year by extending the existing terms of local governing body members by one year....
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1439Intro
25%
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 th...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1315Intro
25%
Elected officials; Internet publication of personal information; definition of public official. Adds to the definition of "public official" any elected official for the purposes of prohibiting the Commonwealth from publishing on the Internet the pers...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1023Intro
25%
Polling places; prohibited activities or conduct; application to locations for absentee voting in person. Clarifies that the provisions of law prohibiting certain activities or conduct in and around a polling place also apply to offices of the genera...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1189Intro
25%
Elections; conduct of election; ascertainment of results; random hand count audits. Requires the electoral board of each locality to randomly select one polling place within its jurisdiction in which votes were cast using a voting system for a full h...
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2024-02-13
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB694Intro
25%
Elections; absentee voting; counting ballots prior to the close of polls. Allows officers of election at a central absentee precinct to begin ascertaining and recording the number of votes cast by absentee ballots at any time after noon on the day of...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB363Intro
25%
Disqualification from office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; affidavit of eligibility for candidates for elective office; removal from office for current officeholders. Provides that any person who is fo...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB565Intro
25%
Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers; automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who indicates that he is already registered to vote is to be automat...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB375Intro
25%
Presidential electors; National Popular Vote Compact. Enters Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Article II of the Constitution of the United States gives the st...
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2024-02-09
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB1314Intro
25%
Elections; political campaign advertisements; advertisements sponsored by a person or political committee that is not a party committee.
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2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB440Intro
25%
Elections; candidates for office; electronic filing of forms, petitions, and notifications with Department of Elections. The bill requires the Department of Elections to develop and implement an online filing system to accept any form, petition, or n...
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2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB907Intro
25%
Elections; voting equipment and systems; State Board approval process; printed receipt for cast ballot. Requires voting systems approved by the State Board of Elections to produce a printed receipt for each voter who has cast a ballot that shows the ...
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2024-02-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB658Intro
25%
Elections; conduct of election; ranked Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only ele...
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2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB276Intro
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...
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2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
VAHB941Intro
25%
Absentee voting in person; voter satellite offices; establishment on the campus of certain public institutions of higher education. Requires, for any general election, at least one voter satellite office to be established on the campus of any baccala...
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2024-01-26
To House Privileges and Elections Committee
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