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2022 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections

Chair: Adam P. Ebbin

Clerk: Hobie Lehman, Jasmine VanDyke
Staff: Brooks Braun
Date of Meeting: March 1, 2022
Time and Place: 15 mins after Senate/ SR 3 /Public register Zoom on GA website
https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3

H.B. 68

Patron: Anderson

Voter registration; presumption of domicile; members of a uniformed service and others. Provides that a member of a uniformed service who is on active duty with permanent orders stationing him in the Commonwealth shall be presumed to have established domicile for purposes of satisfying the residency requirements for voter registration, if he has also established physical presence and a place of abode in the Commonwealth, unless he expressly states otherwise. The bill provides for the same presumption for his spouse and any dependent residing with him. The bill defines "uniformed service," the same way the term is defined in the Uniform Military and Overseas Voter Act, as the (i) active and reserve components of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States; (ii) Merchant Marine, commissioned corps of the Public Health Service, or commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States; or (iii) Virginia National Guard.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 24.2-101 and 24.2-417.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voter registration; presumption of domicile; members of a uniformed service of the United States and others.

22101715D

H.B. 86

Patron: Anderson

Elections; campaign finance; disclosure reports; searchable electronic database. Requires the Department of Elections to provide an interface to the campaign finance database maintained by the Department that allows users to easily search for and sort information by individual candidates and types of elections, offices, committees, and donors; donations, expenditures, loans, and other categories of information included in campaign finance reports; and late filings, incomplete filings, and other violations. The interface shall also provide users tools for manipulating and exporting data. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-946.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to elections; campaign finance; disclosure reports; searchable electronic database.

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H.B. 125

Patron: Davis

Elections; political campaign advertisements; illegal negative ads; civil penalties. Provides that sponsors violating political campaign advertisement disclosure laws with advertisements or campaign telephone calls that expressly advocate against a clearly identified candidate shall be subject to a civil penalty of $10,000.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-955.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to elections; political campaign advertisements; illegal negative ads; civil penalty.

22101869D

H.B. 175

Patron: Bloxom

Absentee voting; annual absentee voter list; absentee ballots; return of ballots. Removes the permanent absentee voter list and provides for an annual absentee voter list by which any eligible voter who annually files an application and is enrolled on the list receives an absentee ballot for any election in which he is eligible to vote in the ensuing calendar year. The application for the annual absentee voter list requires, at a minimum, the voter to provide his printed name, date of birth, and the last four digits of his social security number. The bill makes an absentee voter's failure to have a witness sign the absentee ballot envelope a material omission and renders his ballot void. Current law allows a late absentee ballot to be counted if it is received by the Friday after the election and postmarked on or before the day of the election; the bill modifies this provision, requiring a postmark on or before the Saturday immediately preceding the day of the election.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 24.2-701, 24.2-703.1, 24.2-707, and 24.2-709 of the Code of Virginia, relating to absentee voting; annual absentee voter list; ballot requirements; return of absentee ballot.

22106029D

H.B. 177

Patron: Bloxom

Elections; absentee voting; witness signature requirement; additional information. Makes an absentee voter's failure to have a witness sign the absentee ballot envelope a material omission that renders the ballot void. Additionally, the bill requires an absentee voter to include the last four number of his social security number and his date of birth with the voter affirmation statement on such ballot envelope.

 A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 24.2-702.1, 24.2-704, 24.2-706, and 24.2-707 of the Code of Virginia, relating to elections; absentee voting; witness requirement; additional voter information required on return ballot.

22106054D

H.B. 205

Patron: Wachsmann

State and local elections officials; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited. Prohibits state and local elections officials from soliciting, accepting, using, or disposing of any moneys, grants, property, or services given by a private individual or nongovernmental entity for the purpose of funding voter education and outreach programs, voter registration programs, or any other expense incurred in the conduct of elections. The bill specifically provides that the operation of a polling place or voter satellite office in a facility furnished by a private individual or nongovernmental entity is not a violation of this prohibition.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 6 of Chapter 1 of Title 24.2 a section numbered 24.2-124.1, relating to state and local elections officials; acceptance of certain gifts and funding prohibited.

22103013D

H.B. 542

Patron: Batten

Elections administration; reclassification of assistant registrars. Reclassifies assistant registrars as deputy registrars.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-1837, 24.2-110, 24.2-111, 24.2-112, 24.2-114, 24.2-119 through 24.2-122, 24.2-230, 24.2-412, 24.2-620, 24.2-621, 24.2-632, 24.2-701.1, 24.2-707.1, and 47.1-19 of the Code of Virginia, relating to elections administration; reclassification of assistant registrars.

22101190D

H.B. 927

Patron: Robinson

Elections; absentee voting; ballots to be sorted and results to be reported by precinct. Provides that absentee ballots processed at a central absentee precinct must be sorted by the precinct to which the voter who cast the absentee ballot is assigned and that the resulting vote totals from such ballots must be reported separately for each voter precinct.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-712 of the Code of Virginia, relating to elections; absentee voting; ballots to be sorted and counted by precinct.

22101352D

H.B. 1140

Patron: Walker

Voter registration; cancellation of registration; notice requirement. Requires general registrars to provide notice of the cancellation of a voter's registration to the voter by mail, to the address listed in the voter's registration record, and by email, to the email address provided on the voter's registration application, if one was provided.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-427 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voter registration; cancellation of registration; notice requirement.

22103540D