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2024 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections

Chair: Aaron R. Rouse

Clerk: Hobie Lehman, Madison Odallo
Staff: Brooks Braun
Date of Meeting: January 30, 2024
Time and Place: 15 mins after Senate adjourns / Senate Room B, GAB
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S.B. 147

Patron: Head

Election administration; deputy general registrars; recommended number. Requires the State Board of Elections to adopt guidance for determining the recommended number of deputy registrars to serve in a county or city based on the size of the county's or city's population as of the most recent decennial census and prohibits a local electoral board from setting a number in excess of such recommendation. The bill allows for additional deputy registrars to be appointed if the local electoral board determines that a greater number than the State Board's recommended number for a county's or city's population is needed and the local governing body approves such number. The bill also requires the Department of Elections to convene a work group no later than July 1, 2024, to advise and collaborate with the State Board on the development of such guidance and directs the work group to complete its work and make public such guidance no later than December 1, 2024. The provisions of the bill other than the requirement for the Department to convene the work group have a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-112 of the Code of Virginia, relating to election administration; deputy general registrars; recommended number.

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S.B. 196

Patron: VanValkenburg

Voter registration; list maintenance data standards; challenges to a voter's registration. Prohibits the use of voter data received from another state or jurisdiction or through a list comparison for list maintenance purposes when the data file does not include a unique identifier for each individual whose information is contained in the data file. The bill requires the Department of Elections to annually audit all sources of data utilized for list maintenance activities for the purpose of determining the validity, completeness, accuracy, and reliability of the data received from each source, and to include the results of such audit in its annual report to the Committees on Privileges and Elections regarding its list maintenance activities. Lastly, the bill provides that the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond has jurisdiction over any proceeding challenging a voter's registration. The bill includes technical amendments.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 24.2-404, 24.2-404.4, 24.2-422, 24.2-430, 24.2-431, and 24.2-652 of the Code of Virginia and to repeal §§ 24.2-432 and 24.2-433, relating to voter registration; list maintenance data standards; challenges to a voter's registration.

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S.B. 270

Patron: Subramanyam

Elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting. Allows political parties to hold presidential primaries using ballots that allow a voter to rank such party's candidates in his order of choice.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-545 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 5 of Title 24.2 an article numbered 8, consisting of sections numbered 24.2-546 through 24.2-550, relating to elections; presidential primaries; ranked choice voting.

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S.B. 301

Patron: DeSteph

Campaign finance, required reports; extension of deadlines and appeal of fines. Allows the State Board of Elections or local electoral board to extend a deadline for filing campaign finance reports for any candidate or treasurer who, prior to the deadline, provides notice of extenuating circumstances that will prevent timely filing. Extenuating circumstances may include hospitalization, the death of a family member, being called to active duty, or other reasonable cricumstances. The bill also provides for an appeal process for any person or committee assessed a civil penalty under the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006. Upon petition, the State Board of Elections or the electoral board, as appropriate, may provide relief to the petitioner for good cause shown. Such relief may include forgiveness of all or a portion of an assessed civil penalty, the retroactive extension of a deadline, or other appropriate remedy.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-946.4 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 8 of Chapter 9.3 of Title 24.2 a section numbered 24.2-953.6, relating to campaign finance, required reports; extension of deadlines and appeal of fines.

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S.B. 315

Patron: Salim

Voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers; automatic update. Provides that the information gathered by the Department of Motor Vehicles for a person who indicates that he is already registered to vote is to be automatically transmitted to the Department of Elections for the purpose of updating an existing voter registration record. Under current law, a person must be presented with the option to decline to have his information transmitted to the Department of Elections before such information may be transmitted.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-411.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to voter registration; registration of Department of Motor Vehicles customers; automatic update.

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S.B. 428

Patron: VanValkenburg


Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Allows elections for any local or constitutional office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. Under current law, only elections of members of a county board of supervisors or a city council are allowed to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill also clarifies requirements for conducting elections using ranked choice voting and requires results for elections conducted by ranked choice voting to be reported along with other results reported on election night, except that such results must clearly be identified as preliminary and based on the first rankings in a ranked choice voting election. The bill provides that final tabulation for an election for a local or constitutional office that is not shared by more than one county or city is required to be conducted on the same day as other results are canvassed by the local electoral board and that final tabulation for and election for a local or constitutional office that is shared by more than one county or city is required to be conducted at a centralized facility under the supervision of the Department of Elections. The bill specifies that ranking data is required to be made publicly available by the Department and requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards and to approve vote tabulating software for use with existing voting systems in elections conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill also limits a risk-limiting audit of an election conducted using ranked choice voting to the first choice rankings reported on voting systems. Finally, the bill directs the Department to review the testing and approval framework for voting equipment in the Commonwealth and submit a report of such review no later than the first day of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-673.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report.

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S.B. 606

Patron: VanValkenburg

Voter registration; list maintenance; data sharing; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Requires the Commissioner of Elections to apply for, enter into, and maintain membership for the Commonwealth in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

A BILL to require the Commonwealth's participation in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).

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S.J.R. 31

Patron: Rouse

Confirming Governor's appointments; December 1. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Glenn Youngkin and communicated to the General Assembly December 1, 2023.

Confirming appointments by the Governor of certain persons communicated to the General Assembly December 1, 2023.

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S.J.R. 32

Patron: Rouse

Confirming Governor's appointments; August 1. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Glenn Youngkin and communicated to the General Assembly August 1, 2023.

Confirming appointments by the Governor of certain persons communicated to the General Assembly August 1, 2023.

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S.J.R. 33

Patron: Rouse

Confirming Governor's appointments; October 1. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Glenn Youngkin and communicated to the General Assembly October 1, 2023.

Confirming appointments by the Governor of certain persons communicated to the General Assembly October 1, 2023.

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S.J.R. 34

Patron: Rouse

Confirming Governor's appointments; June 1. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Glenn Youngkin and communicated to the General Assembly June 1, 2023.

Confirming appointments by the Governor of certain persons communicated to the General Assembly June 1, 2023.

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S.J.R. 36

Patron: Rouse

Confirming Governor's appointments; January 12. Confirms appointments of certain persons made by Governor Glenn Youngkin and communicated to the General Assembly January 12, 2024.

Confirming appointments by the Governor of certain persons communicated to the General Assembly January 12, 2024.

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S.J.R. 64

Patron: Rouse

Confirming appointments by the Governor of agency heads communicated to the General Assembly January 15 and 16, 2024, and reconfirming the appointment of the Director of Department of Wildlife Resources.

Confirming appointments by the Governor of agency heads communicated to the General Assembly January 15 and 16, 2024, and reconfirming the appointment of the Director of Department of Wildlife Resources.

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