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2022 SESSION
HB 544 Voter identification; optional restrictive identification requirement.
Introduced by: Amanda E. Batten | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Voter identification; optional restrictive identification requirement. Allows a voter to opt into being required to show a valid photo identification issued by the Commonwealth, one of its political subdivisions, or the United States when voting in person. When a voter offers to vote and the pollbook indicates he has opted into such requirement, he shall be required to show a valid photo identification issued by the Commonwealth, one of its political subdivisions, or the United States in order to vote a regular ballot. The bill requires the voter registration application to permit an applicant to opt into this requirement and the Department of Elections to provide the means for currently registered voters to opt in as well.
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HISTORY
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100935D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/24/22 House: Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/25/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 4-N)
- 01/28/22 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 8-N)
- 02/01/22 House: Read first time
- 02/02/22 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/03/22 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 49-N)
- 02/03/22 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N)
- 02/04/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/22/22 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N)