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2008 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections

Chairman: Janet D. Howell

Clerk: Charles Shotton
Staff: Mary Spain, Jack Austin
Date of Meeting: February 26, 2008
Time and Place: 4:00 PM, Senate Room A

H.B. 322

Patron: Saxman

Campaign finance; prohibited activities during regular sessions of the General Assembly.  Prohibits any General Assembly member, the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General, from attending any event held during a regular session that is sponsored by any political party committee, registered lobbyist, organization or group from which he received a campaign contribution during the previous calendar year.  This bill incorporates HB 122.

EMERGENCY

H.B. 684

Patron: Brink

Elections; form of ballots.  Replaces current law provisions specifying the details for the form of ballots with a directive that ballots comply with election law requirements and standards prescribed by the State Board of Elections.

H.B. 754

Patron: Peace

Horse racing; local referendum; definition of town.  Specifies that for the purposes of local referenda on pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing by a town with a population of 5,000 or more, population shall be calculated based upon the most recent population estimate by the United State Bureau of the Census or the most recent population update from the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.

H.B. 789

Patron: Ingram

Campaign finance disclosure; filings by political action committees. Requires any political action committee that files its statement of organization on or after October 1 and before the November election day in any odd-numbered year (i) to file a campaign finance report for the committee's activities during that year with its statement of organization and (ii) to file reports within 24 hours of receiving any contribution of $500 or more during the period between the date of filing its statement of organization and the election day. The bill provides for a civil penalty of $500 for the failure to file any such report and $1,000 for each additional failure.

H.B. 1410

Patron: Ingram

Campaign finance disclosure; campaign advertisement disclosure requirements; publication of paid political advertisements.  Reduces from $500 to $200 or more the amount of independent expenditures that a person may make with respect to an election for any office other than a statewide office that will require him to comply with the reporting requirements for independent expenditures under the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act and with the disclosure requirements of the "stand-by-your-ad" law.  The bill also provides that a candidate who is clearly identified in a "paid advertisement" is entitled to obtain the identity of the person who submitted the advertisement from the newspaper, magazine, or periodical that published the advertisement.

H.B. 1446

Patron: Ingram

Campaign finance disclosure reports; filing schedule for May elections.  Provides for the filing by May election candidates of an additional campaign finance report on April 15 of the election year, complete for activity through March 31 of that year. Current law requires a report to be filed on the eighth day before the May election date complete for activity through the eleventh day before the election and, for March primary candidates only, a report to be filed on the eighth day before the primary date complete for activity through the eleventh day before the primary. These requirements apply to May elections in all cities and in those towns with a population of 25,000 or more (Blacksburg and Leesburg).

H.B. 1455

Patron: Nichols

Elections; provisional ballot procedures. Corrects a reference in the Code concerning the handling of provisional ballots to clarify that the information provided by the persons casting provisional ballots will be entered in the precinct provisional ballots log rather than in the pollbook for the precinct. This bill is identical to SB 684.

S.B. 796

Patron: Barker

Elections; emergencies; extension of polling hours. Provides for extension of polling hours in emergency situations.