Employment discrimination; prohibits against electoral board member, etc., for election day service.
Summary
Employment discrimination; prohibited againstelectoral board members and assistant general registrars for election day service; penalty. Prohibits discrimination in employmentagainst electoral board members and assistant general registrarson the basis of service on election day or at a meeting of the electoralboard following the election to ascertain the results of the election.Current law prohibits such employment discrimination only on thebasis of election day service and only against officers of election.A violation of the bill's provisions is a Class 3 misdemeanor.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Dec 2019
Committee Review
Feb 2020
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2020
Senate Passage
Feb 2020
Signed into Law
Apr 2020
Introduced Dec 27, 2019
Signed Apr 7, 2020
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
24
Key actions
7
Committee
6
Apr 7, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 838 (effective 7/1/20)
executive
Feb 24, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (37-Y 3-N)
upper
Feb 21, 2020
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 18, 2020
Upper · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections (10-Y 0-N 1-A)
upper
Feb 7, 2020
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
upper
Feb 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2020
Lower · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2020
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 14, 2020
Committee
Assigned P & E sub: Gubernatorial Appointments
lower
Dec 27, 2019
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
lower
Dec 27, 2019
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100919D
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Wendy Gooditis
DDemocratic
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