HB 1 Virginia House of Delegates · 2020 Regular Session

Absentee voting; no excuse required, voting by absentee ballot.

Summary

Absentee voting; no excuse required. Permits any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in any election in which he is qualified to vote. The bill removes the current list of statutory reasons under which a person may be entitled to vote by absentee ballot and removes references to those reasons from other sections of the Code. This bill incorporates HB 25, HB 208, and HB 209.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Nov 2019

Committee Review

Feb 2020

House of Delegates Passage

Jan 2020

Senate Passage

Feb 2020

Signed into Law

Apr 2020

Introduced Nov 18, 2019 Signed Apr 11, 2020

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Apr 11, 2020

Signed into law

Approved by Governor-Chapter 1149 (effective 7/1/20)

executive

Feb 26, 2020

Introduced

Senate amendment agreed to by House (62-Y 34-N)

lower

Feb 24, 2020

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate with amendment (25-Y 15-N)

upper

Feb 24, 2020

Introduced

Engrossed by Senate as amended

upper

Feb 24, 2020

Upper · Passed

Committee amendment agreed to

upper

Feb 24, 2020

Introduced

Reading of amendment waived

upper

Feb 21, 2020

Upper · Passed

Passed by for the day

upper

Feb 18, 2020

Upper · Passed

Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (10-Y 4-N)

upper

Jan 31, 2020

Committee

Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

upper

Jan 30, 2020

Lower · Passed

Read third time and passed House ((65-Y 35-N)

lower

Jan 29, 2020

Lower · Passed

Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1H1

lower

Jan 29, 2020

Lower · Passed

Committee substitute agreed to 20106251D-H1

lower

Jan 24, 2020

Lower · Passed

Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 8-N)

lower

Jan 21, 2020

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (4-Y 2-N)

lower

Jan 13, 2020

Committee

Assigned P & E sub: Elections

lower

Nov 18, 2019

Committee

Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

lower

Nov 18, 2019

Introduced

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101095D

lower

1 primary · 14 co-sponsors