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2020 SESSION

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SB 859 Absentee voting; emergency absentee voting by and late applications for persons hospitalized.

Introduced by: Adam P. Ebbin | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Absentee voting; emergency absentee voting by and late applications for persons hospitalized; definition of hospital. Amends the definition of hospital, for purposes of emergency absentee voting by or late absentee ballot applications for persons who have been hospitalized, so that it is not limited to hospitals in Virginia, the District of Columbia, or a state contiguous to Virginia. The bill also removes the requirement that a person submitting a late absentee ballot application due to the hospitalization of himself or a member of his immediate family or to the death of a member of his immediate family must be absent from his county or city on election day in order to be eligible for the late absentee ballot application.

FULL TEXT

• 01/08/20  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103568D  pdf | impact statement
• 03/04/20  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB859ER)  pdf | impact statement
• 04/11/20  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1163)  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/08/20  Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20103568D
• 01/08/20  Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
• 01/14/20  Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 1-N)
• 01/16/20  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 01/17/20  Senate: Read second time and engrossed
• 01/20/20  Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 2-N)
• 02/13/20  House: Placed on Calendar
• 02/13/20  House: Read first time
• 02/13/20  House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
• 02/14/20  House: Assigned P & E sub: Elections
• 02/18/20  House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 02/21/20  House: Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 0-N)
• 02/25/20  House: Read second time
• 02/26/20  House: Read third time
• 02/26/20  House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N)
• 02/26/20  House: VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 03/04/20  Senate: Enrolled
• 03/04/20  Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB859ER)
• 03/05/20  Senate: Signed by President
• 03/06/20  House: Signed by Speaker
• 03/12/20  Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 03/12/20  Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 04/11/20  Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 1163 (effective 7/1/20)
• 04/11/20  Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1163)