HB 492 Virginia House of Delegates · 2022 Regular Session

Campaign finance; record retention requirements and reviews of campaign finance disclosure reports.

Summary
Campaign finance; record retention requirements and reviews of campaign finance disclosure reports. Requires campaign committee treasurers to retain certain records that may be used in reviews of campaign committee accounts. The bill gives the Department of Elections the authority and duty to conduct reviews of a percentage of campaign committees and to report the results of such reviews annually to the State Board of Elections, the Governor, and the General Assembly and make such report available on the Department's website. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024, and provides that campaign finance reports filed prior to January 1, 2024, are not subject to the provisions of the bill.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Signed into Law
Apr 2022
Introduced Jan 11, 2022 Signed Apr 8, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 3, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2022

How they voted

320
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 33
Mar 3, 2022
D Democratic17
17 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican16
15 Yea 1
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
48
Key actions
20
Committee
16
Amendments
5
Apr 8, 2022
Signed into law
Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (effective 1/1/24)
executive
Mar 10, 2022
Introduced
Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 2-N)
lower
Mar 10, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 10, 2022
Introduced
Engrossed by Senate as amended
upper
Mar 10, 2022
Upper · Passed
Amendment by Senator Spruill agreed to
upper
Mar 10, 2022
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Mar 10, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by temporarily
upper
Mar 10, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
upper
Mar 9, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 8, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee amendment agreed to
upper
Mar 7, 2022
Introduced
Reading of amendment waived
upper
Mar 4, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 3, 2022
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (32-0-1)
senate
Mar 2, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N)
upper
Feb 23, 2022
Upper · Passed
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
upper
Feb 22, 2022
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Feb 22, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Feb 7, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
upper
Feb 4, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (81-Y 19-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 29, 2022
Committee
Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
lower
Jan 28, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 28, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections (17-Y 2-N)
lower
Jan 26, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
lower
Jan 26, 2022
Lower · Passed
Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2022
Committee
Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
lower
Jan 11, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101163D
lower
1 primary · 5 co-sponsors

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