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2022 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections

Chair: R. Creigh Deeds

Clerk: Hobie Lehman, Jasmine VanDyke
Staff: Brooks Braun
Date of Meeting: February 8, 2022
Time and Place: 15 mins after Senate adj / SR 3/ Public register speak GA website
https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3

H.B. 55

Patron: Greenhalgh

Voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previous week. Currently, this list is transmitted monthly. The bill requires the general registrars to use this information to conduct list maintenance and to promptly cancel the registration of a person on the list.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 24.2-408 and 24.2-427 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records.

22102595D

H.B. 195

Patron: Ransone

Polling places; location requirements; waiver in certain circumstances. Provides that in the event that there is no suitable building that could be used for a polling place within a precinct or within one mile of the precinct boundary, the general registrar or the governing body of the locality may request from the Department of Elections a waiver to establish a polling place that does not meet the location requirements. The bill provides that Department shall grant such a waiver and may impose any conditions on the waiver that it deems necessary or appropriate to ensure accessibility and security of the polling place.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-310 of the Code of Virginia, relating to polling places; location requirements; waiver in certain circumstances.

22101098D

H.B. 386

Patron: Sullivan

Potomac River Bridge Towing Compact. Adds the Arland D. Williams, Jr. Memorial Bridge to the Potomac River bridges subject to the Potomac River Bridge Towing Compact to facilitate the prompt and orderly removal of disabled and abandoned vehicles from the bridges by giving the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia appropriate authority anywhere on the bridges. The effective date of this amendment to the Compact is contingent upon enactment of substantially similar legislation by the State of Maryland and the District of Columbia. The bill contains technical amendments.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1239.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to Potomac River Bridge Towing Compact.

22102229D

S.B. 67

Patron: Suetterlein

Campaign finance; political action committees; certain large pre-election expenditures. Requires in-state political action committees to file a report for any single expenditure of $1,000 or more made between October 1 and the date of the November election. Such reports are to be made electronically and must be received by the State Board by 11:59 p.m. on the following day or, for an expenditure made on a Saturday, by 11:59 p.m. on the following Monday. However, the bill requires that any such expenditure made within the 24 hours prior to the election day be reported and a report thereof received on the day prior to the election.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 24.2-949.7:1, relating to campaign finance; political action committees; certain large pre-election expenditures.

22101056D

S.B. 233

Patron: Suetterlein

Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited. Prohibits campaign fundraising on and after the first day of a special session of the General Assembly through adjournment sine die of that session. Currently, campaign fundraising is prohibited only during regular sessions of the General Assembly.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-954 of the Code of Virginia, relating to campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited.

22102667D

S.B. 463

Patron: Bell

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or a candidate's campaign committee for their personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but excepts from "personal use" the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. Any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to provide an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the Attorney General's opinion and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-3711, 24.2-946, and 24.2-948.4 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 3 of Chapter 9.3 of Title 24.2 sections numbered 24.2-948.5, 24.2-948.6, and 24.2-948.7, relating to relating to campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions.

22102785D

S.B. 556

Patron: Ruff

State Board of Elections; membership. Increases the membership of the State Board of Elections from five to six members and provides that any third party or recognized political party whose candidate received greater than 20 percent of the votes in the Commonwealth for Governor at the last preceding gubernatorial election shall have representation on the Board.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-102 of the Code of Virginia, relating to State Board of Elections; membership.

22101351D