SEARCH SITE
VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL
- Code of Virginia
- Virginia Administrative Code
- Constitution of Virginia
- Charters
- Authorities
- Compacts
- Uncodified Acts
- RIS Users (account required)
SEARCHABLE DATABASES
- Bills & Resolutions
session legislation - Bill Summaries
session summaries - Reports to the General Assembly
House and Senate documents - Legislative Liaisons
State agency contacts
ACROSS SESSIONS
- Subject Index: Since 1995
- Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
- Summaries: Since 1994
Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
2001 SESSION
HJ 681 Study; election process and voting technologies.
Introduced by: James K. (Jay) O'Brien, Jr. | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Election process. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the election process. In conducting the study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) examine the reliability and performance of the various types of voting systems in use throughout Virginia and in other states; (ii) examine the feasibility, advisability and costs of standardizing voting systems throughout the Commonwealth; (iii) consider ways to encourage localities to purchase or phase-in upgraded voting systems, including match grant programs; (iv) examine new and developing technologies that might advance the goals of better determining vote eligibility, ensuring voter privacy, enhancing the ability of voters to cast accurate and legal ballots and reducing the potential for election officials and individual interests to seek to interpret the intent of voters from ballots cast; (v) establish the extent to which, and the circumstances under which, spoiled ballots are cast or rescinded in elections; (vi) collect information regarding possible or actual voter misunderstanding of the ballot in elections throughout the Commonwealth; (vii) solicit the advice and experience of local electoral boards in ascertaining, establishing, and certifying the results of elections for accuracy and fairness; (viii) investigate the extent of and legality of vote-swapping strategies; (ix) examine local electoral board membership and qualification; (x) consider procedures for voter-friendly registration; (xi) examine standard procedures for assisting voters at the polls; (xii) ascertain the training needs of election officials and monitor the study by the State Board of Elections and the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service on establishing a career development program for voter registrars; (xiii) consider procedures for standardizing absentee voting; (xiv) examine legal, technological, logistical and other related issues, including privacy involved in the handling and security of a merged pollbook; (xv) investigate the experience of, and monitor current actions in, other states; and (xvi) make any other recommendations for changes that may be desirable to advance the certainty of, and fairness in establishing, the outcome of elections in the Commonwealth. The aforementioned objectives represent the incorporation of HJR 529 (Marshall), HJR 621 (Drake), HJR 659 (Landes), HJR 798 (Crittenden), SJR 352 (Rerras) and SJR 376 (Lambert). This resolution is identical to SJR 363 (Miller, K.G.).
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/01 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 010475872 pdf
- 02/04/01 House: Committee substitute printed 017932872-H1 pdf
- 02/20/01 Senate: Committee substitute printed 017958872-S1 pdf
- 02/24/01 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ681ER) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/10/01 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 010475872
- 01/10/01 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/04/01 House: Reported from Rules with substitute (17-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/01 House: Committee substitute printed 017932872-H1
- 02/05/01 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/01 House: Taken up
- 02/06/01 House: Committee substitute agreed to 017932872-H1
- 02/06/01 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute 017932872-H1
- 02/06/01 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/01 House: Agreed to by House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/01 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/09/01 Senate: Reading waived
- 02/09/01 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/19/01 Senate: Reported from Rules with substitute by voice vote
- 02/20/01 Senate: Rules suspended (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/01 Senate: Reading waived, passed by for the day
- 02/20/01 Senate: Committee substitute printed 017958872-S1
- 02/21/01 Senate: Read third time
- 02/21/01 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/21/01 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 017958872-S1
- 02/21/01 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute 017958872-S1
- 02/21/01 Senate: Agreed to by Senate with substitute by voice vote
- 02/22/01 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/22/01 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/01 House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/24/01 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ681ER)
- 08/06/01 House: Study Committee Members Appointed