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2024 SESSION
HB 904 Voter registration; list maintenance activities, cancellation procedures, required record matches.
Introduced by: Marcia S. "Cia" Price | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; required record matches; required identification information; data standards. Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists received by the Department of Elections for list maintenance purposes and requires the Department, upon receiving any such list, to do an initial comparison of the information included on such list with the list of registered voters and determine the confidence score for any match. Matches with a confidence score of at least 80 are transmitted to the appropriate general registrars. The bill 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 review 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 review in its annual report to the Committees on Privileges and Elections regarding its list maintenance activities. The bill requires the general registrars to send notice prior to cancelling a voter's record regardless of the reason for cancellation. Lastly, the bill clarifies that when a voter's registration is canceled, a cancellation record must be created, and that such records are public in accordance with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the National Voter Registration Act. The bill includes numerous technical amendments for organizational purposes. This bill is identical to SB 300.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101216D pdf | impact statement
- 02/09/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106406D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/25/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB904ER) pdf
- 03/25/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate reprinted (HB904ER) pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Governor's recommendation
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101216D
- 01/09/24 House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/09/24 House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 8-N)
- 02/09/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106406D-H1
- 02/11/24 House: Read first time
- 02/12/24 House: Read second time
- 02/12/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24106406D-H1
- 02/12/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB904H1
- 02/13/24 House: Read third time and passed House (53-Y 45-N)
- 02/13/24 House: VOTE: Passage (53-Y 45-N)
- 02/14/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/27/24 Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendments (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/27/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/29/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
- 03/04/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/05/24 Senate: Read third time
- 03/05/24 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 03/05/24 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 03/05/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 03/05/24 Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (21-Y 19-N)
- 03/06/24 House: Senate amendments agreed to by House (54-Y 45-N)
- 03/06/24 House: VOTE: Adoption (54-Y 45-N)
- 03/25/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/25/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB904ER)
- 03/25/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate reprinted (HB904ER)
- 03/25/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/26/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/27/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 27, 2024
- 03/27/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/08/24 House: Governor's recommendation received by House
- 04/17/24 House: House rejected Governor's recommendation (0-Y 99-N)
- 04/17/24 House: VOTE: REJECTED (0-Y 99-N)
- 04/17/24 House: Communicated to Governor
- 04/17/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., May 17, 2024