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2004 SESSION
Chairman: Stephen H. Martin
Date of Meeting: February 24, 2004
Time and Place: 4:00 p.m. -- Senate Room A
Patron: Cosgrove
Senatorial districts. Makes a technical change in the boundary between the Fifth and Fourteenth Districts within the City of Chesapeake to eliminate a confusing situation where the Senate line follows a nonvisible precinct line. The adjustment moves the Senate line to visible roads and follows a new precinct line that the City is establishing. The two districts remain within the two percent population deviation followed in the 2001 redistricting. This bill is identical to SB 184.
Patron: Welch
Post-election procedures and securing of election equipment and materials. Applies to localities that have opted to have election materials delivered after the election to the office of the general registrar rather than to the clerk of the circuit court. The bill provides that voting equipment keys, including electronic locking devices, and other election materials shall be secured and retained by the general registrar and then delivered to the clerk of the circuit court by noon of the day following the day that the electoral board ascertains the results of the election rather than by noon of the day following the election.
Patron: Welch
Duties of State Board of Elections; electronic pollbooks. Authorizes the State Board to provide a regional or statewide list of registered voters to those localities using electronic pollbooks or electronic voter registration look-up devices.
Patron: Gear
Voter registration applications and records. Permits a person, who signs a statement that he is in fear for his personal safety from another party who has threatened or stalked him, to provide a post office box address, either for his residence or another location in the Commonwealth. The statement must be accompanied by evidence that the person has filed a complaint with a law-enforcement official in connection with the threat or stalking. The bill also excludes the residence address for these voters from publicly available lists of registered voters and persons voting and from the scope of the public inspection provisions on voter registration records.
Patron: Rapp
Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; information required of candidates, campaign committees, and other persons and committees. Deletes the requirement, or possibility of an administratively mandated requirement, that campaign committees and other persons and committees provide the account number for the depository account for campaign or committee funds. The law would continue to require the name of the financial institution where the account is held.
Patron: Brink
Voting equipment and technology and related election law offenses; penalties. Incorporates a number of changes in current law provisions on voting equipment and related offenses to cover new developments in voting technology, software, programming and related security and operations issues. This bill is similar to SB 313 except for a requirement pertaining to voting equipment technicians.
Patron: Abbitt
Senatorial and House of Delegates districts. Makes adjustments to the Tenth and Fifteenth Senatorial district boundaries in Cumberland County and to the Twenty-fifth and Fifty-ninth House of Delegates district boundaries in Albemarle County and the Fifty-ninth and Sixtieth House of Delegates district boundaries in Prince Edward County in order to eliminate split precincts. The adjustments place the population deviations of the Tenth Senatorial district and the Twenty-fifth House of Delegates district slightly in excess of the two percent deviation followed in the 2001 redistricting plans.
Patron: Hugo
Voting equipment at the polling place. Provides that voting and counting equipment, including inoperative equipment, must remain in plain view of the officers of election and in the polling place during the election and through the determination of the vote after the polls close. The bill provides for use of easily portable electronic voting devices for curbside voting under certain conditions. This bill is identical to SB 94.
Patron: Hugo
Party designations on the ballot. Extends to local constitutional officers (the clerk of the circuit court, attorney for the Commonwealth, sheriff, commissioner of the revenue, and treasurer) the provision that candidates nominated by a political party will be identified by party name on the ballot. Current law provides for party identification of candidates on ballots only for federal, statewide, and General Assembly elections. The bill explicitly provides that an endorsement by a political party of a candidate who qualifies for the ballot through the petition process is not grounds for identifying that candidate by the party's name. The provision for party identification on the ballot does not apply to members of local governing bodies, school boards, and soil and water conservation districts.
Patron: Albo
Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; disclosure requirements for political campaign advertisements. Includes various revisions, including revisions to definitions, filing requirements, and enforcement provisions. This bill incorporates HB 1253.
Patron: Frederick
Taking of office following certain vacancies. Applies to situations in which a person is elected to a full term in an office at the regular general election for the office, there is a vacancy in that office not subject to being filled by a special election or by appointment, and there are 90 or fewer days remaining in the term of that vacancy. The bill provides that the person elected for the full term may take office early and fill the vacancy for the remainder of that term.
Patron: Scott, J.M.
Campaign finance disclosure; reporting requirements; certain exempt political party committees. Raises from $10,000 to $15,000 the annual amount of contributions or expenditures that triggers the requirement for certain local political party committees to file periodic campaign finance disclosure reports. The bill also deletes the requirement that the State Board of Elections adjust the trigger amount annually for inflation.
Patron: Cole
Virginia voter registration cards. Provides that the cards are issued for the information of the voter and are not to be used as evidence of identity or residence for in-state tuition privileges, insurance agents' licenses, or driver's licenses. The bill preserves the use of the cards for certain election law purposes such as evidence of registration and identity at the polls on election day and other purposes specifically authorized by law.
Patron: Drake
House of Delegates districts. Makes a technical adjustment in the boundary between the Eighty-seventh and Ninetieth House of Delegates districts within the City of Norfolk by moving one census block in order to eliminate a split precinct. Both districts remain within the two percent population deviation established for the 2001 redistricting plan.
Patron: Brink
Campaign Finance Disclosure Act; required filings and penalties. Provides for a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for the failure to file, or the late filing, of candidate or committee statements of organization. The bill also gives the State Board of Elections or local election official 14 days, rather than seven days, to notify the filer of a campaign disclosure report that the report is incomplete and requires additional information.
Patron: Alexander
Voting by persons under age 18. Clarifies that persons who will be 18 by the November presidential election may vote in the presidential primary (and other primaries held on the date of the presidential primary) held in advance of the presidential election. The bill restates the current law that is set out in the provisions on presidential primaries and adds this provision to the laws on voter registration.
Patron: Cole
Lobbying; special reports. Requires entities that seek to influence actions on legislation and that raise or expend more than $50,000 between December 15 and adjournment sine die of the ensuing General Assembly session to register, file biweekly reports of their receipts and expenditures, and file the annual Lobbyist's Disclosure Statement. Emergency.
EMERGENCY
Patron: Phillips
House of Delegates districts. Makes an adjustment in the boundary between the First and Second districts in Wise County in order to eliminate a split precinct. The First District population deviation after the adjustment will be -2.3 percent, greater than the two percent deviation followed in the 2001 redistricting plan.
Patron: Ingram
Appointments; Board of the Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy. Confirms appointments to the Board by the Speaker of the House of Delegates of Waja Grimm and Dink E. Schackleford for four-year terms ending June 30, 2007.
Patron: Ingram
Appointments; Board of Directors of the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System Authority. Confirms appointments by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to the Authority Board of Steven Andrew Markel and Ann S. Fulcher, M.D., for three-year terms ending June 30, 2006.
Patron: Putney
JLARC director. Confirming the appointment of Philip A. Leone as Director of the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission.