SB 111 Virginia Senate · 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 SB 45, SB 137, SB 696, and SB 879.

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Dec 2019

Committee Review

Feb 2020

Senate Passage

Jan 2020

House of Delegates Passage

Feb 2020

Signed into Law

Apr 2020

Introduced Dec 12, 2019 Signed Apr 11, 2020

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 11, 2020

Signed into law

Approved by Governor-Chapter 1151 (effective 7/1/20)

executive

Feb 28, 2020

Introduced

House amendment agreed to by Senate (24-Y 14-N)

upper

Feb 26, 2020

Lower · Passed

Passed House with amendment (62-Y 38-N)

lower

Feb 26, 2020

Introduced

Engrossed by House as amended

lower

Feb 26, 2020

Lower · Passed

Committee amendment agreed to

lower

Feb 21, 2020

Lower · Passed

Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (13-Y 7-N)

lower

Feb 18, 2020

Lower · Passed

Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (5-Y 1-N)

lower

Feb 18, 2020

Lower · Passed

House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered

lower

Feb 14, 2020

Committee

Assigned P & E sub: Elections

lower

Feb 13, 2020

Committee

Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

lower

Jan 20, 2020

Upper · Passed

Read third time and passed Senate (31-Y 9-N)

upper

Jan 17, 2020

Upper · Passed

Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB111S1

upper

Jan 17, 2020

Upper · Passed

Committee substitute agreed to 20105793D-S1

upper

Jan 14, 2020

Upper · Passed

Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (11-Y 4-N)

upper

Dec 12, 2019

Committee

Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

upper

Dec 12, 2019

Introduced

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101367D

upper

1 primary · 10 co-sponsors