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1995 SESSION
HB 2327 Implementation of National Voter Registration Act.
Introduced by: James M. Scott | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
Implementation of the National Voter Registration Act. Provides for registration of voters by mail beginning July 1, 1995, and at the offices of the Department of Motor Vehicles, public assistance agencies, agencies primarily providing services to the disabled, armed forces recruitment offices, and Virginia Employment Commission offices, beginning January 1, 1996. The bill also establishes a voter list maintenance program and fail-safe voting procedures to ensure that voters who move their place of residence are provided adequate opportunities to correct their registration records before they are removed from the voter registration list. A constitutional amendment passed at the last November election deleted the requirement that a person must apply in person to register and eliminated the requirement for canceling a voter's registration for nonvoting. All of the changes in the bill are in response to the National Voter Registration Act, which Virginia is required to follow, concerning registration to vote in federal elections for federal offices. Effective date provisions delay implementation of the act (except mail registration) if Congress changes or repeals the NVRA or if implementation of the NVRA is enjoined in Virginia by the courts.
FULL TEXT
- 01/23/95 House: Presented & ordered printed LD2371443 pdf
- 03/10/95 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2327ER) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House amendments rejected
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments rejected
- Governor's recommendation
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/23/95 House: Presented & ordered printed LD2371443
- 01/23/95 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/30/95 House: Assigned to P. & E. sub-committee: 2
- 02/01/95 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 8-N)
- 02/02/95 House: Read first time
- 02/03/95 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/04/95 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/05/95 House: Passed by for the day
- 02/06/95 House: Read second time
- 02/06/95 House: Floor amendments rejected (Wilkins)
- 02/06/95 House: Floor amendment #1 rejected (Marshall) (48-Y 51-N)
- 02/06/95 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (48-Y 51-N)
- 02/06/95 House: Floor amendment #2 rejected (Marshall) (48-Y 51-N)
- 02/06/95 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (48-Y 51-N)
- 02/06/95 House: Engrossed by House (55-Y 44-N)
- 02/06/95 House: VOTE: ENGROSSMENT (55-Y 44-N)
- 02/07/95 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 48-N)
- 02/07/95 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (51-Y 48-N)
- 02/07/95 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/07/95 House: Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N)
- 02/07/95 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (53-Y 46-N)
- 02/07/95 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/08/95 Senate: Read first time
- 02/08/95 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/20/95 Senate: Reported from P. & E. with amendments (9-Y 2-N 1-A)
- 02/21/95 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/21/95 Senate: VOTE: CONST. READING DISPENSED (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Read third time
- 02/22/95 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/22/95 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/22/95 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/22/95 Senate: Floor amendents ruled not germane (Robb)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/22/95 Senate: Floor amendments agreed to (Gartlan)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/22/95 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (30-Y 9-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (30-Y 9-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Floor amendments reconsidered (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (37-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Floor amendments #1, 2 agreed to (Gartlan)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/22/95 Senate: Floor amendment #3 withdrawn (Gartlan)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Floor amendment #4 agreed to (Gartlan)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/22/95 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (30-Y 9-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (30-Y 9-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Rec. of Sen. passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: RECONSIDER (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (28-Y 10-N)
- 02/22/95 Senate: VOTE: PASSAGE (28-Y 10-N)
- 02/23/95 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/23/95 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (55-Y 44-N)
- 02/23/95 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (55-Y 44-N)
- 03/10/95 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2327ER)
- 03/15/95 House: Enrolled
- 03/15/95 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/16/95 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/27/95 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/06/95 House: Motion for pending question agreed to
- 04/06/95 House: House rejected Gov's recommendation (47-Y 53-N)
- 04/06/95 House: VOTE: REJECTED (47-Y 53-N)
- 04/06/95 House: Communicated to Governor
- 05/05/95 Governor: Vetoed by Governor