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.
2013 SESSION
HB 2147 Primaries; filings of primary candidate petitions with party chairman, etc.
Introduced by: Richard L. Anderson | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Primaries; candidate petition signatures, certification by party chairman. Provides that in furnishing to the State Board of Elections or local electoral boards the names of candidates for nomination in a primary, including a presidential primary, the party chairman shall certify that a review of the candidate petitions found the required minimum number of signatures of qualified voters for the particular office to have been met. The bill also provides that the State Board shall transmit declarations of candidacy, petitions, and receipts for the payment of filing fees filed with the State Board to the state chairman of the party of the candidate filing such materials within 72 hours of the filing and not later than the seventy-fourth day before a primary. Currently, the State Board must transmit such materials on the seventy-fourth day before a primary.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13102825D pdf | impact statement
- 02/01/13 House: Committee substitute printed 13104856D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 02/21/13 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2147ER) pdf | impact statement
- 03/16/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443) pdf
HISTORY
- 01/09/13 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/13 13102825D
- 01/09/13 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/14/13 House: Assigned P & E sub: Elections Subcommittee
- 01/29/13 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/13 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (22-Y 0-N)
- 02/01/13 House: Committee substitute printed 13104856D-H1
- 02/02/13 House: Read first time
- 02/04/13 House: Read second time
- 02/04/13 House: Committee substitute agreed to 13104856D-H1
- 02/04/13 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB2147H1
- 02/05/13 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/13 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (100-Y 0-N)
- 02/06/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/06/13 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/12/13 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/13 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/13 Senate: Read third time
- 02/15/13 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/13 House: Enrolled
- 02/21/13 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2147ER)
- 02/21/13 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/21/13 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/16/13 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 443 (effective 7/1/13)
- 03/16/13 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0443)