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HB1534

Voter or voter's registration; challenges to candidate qualifications or eligibility.

Status:
Vetoed

Latest Action: April 17, 2024
House: House sustained Governor's veto

Chief Patron:
Mark Sickles (D)

Session:
2024 Regular Session

Summary

As Passed House of Origin. Elections; challenges to voter or voter's registration; challenges to candidate qualifications or eligibility.

Eliminates the process by which any voter could challenge, in a polling place on the day of an election, the right of any other voter to cast a ballot. The bill also eliminates the process by which any three voters could challenge a voter's registration before the general registrar; such challenges may still be made by filing a petition with the circuit court of the county or city where the voter is registered. The bill also requires challenges to a person's eligibility to appear on the ballot on the basis that such person did not meet all qualifications or fulfill all requirements for candidacy to be made at least 60 days before the date of the election. Candidates who are nominated at a primary election cannot be later challenged on the basis of facts that were present prior to the primary election and could have been raised in a challenge to such candidate's eligibility for the primary ballot. Any challenge to a candidate's qualifications or eligibility shall be made by filing a petition with the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond, which shall have jurisdiction over such proceedings. (Less)

  • Bill History

  • 01/19/2024 - House: Presented and ordered printed 24100830D
  • 01/19/2024 - House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
  • 02/02/2024 - House: Assigned P & E sub: Election Administration
  • 02/05/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1534)
  • 02/05/2024 - House: House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
  • 02/05/2024 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
  • 02/09/2024 - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (13-Y 9-N)
  • 02/09/2024 - House: Committee substitute printed 24106175D-H1
  • 02/09/2024 - House: Incorporates HB185 (Simon)
  • 02/11/2024 - House: Read first time
  • 02/12/2024 - House: Read second time
  • 02/12/2024 - House: Committee substitute agreed to 24106175D-H1
  • 02/12/2024 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1534H1
  • 02/13/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1534H1)
  • 02/13/2024 - House: Read third time and passed House (54-Y 44-N)
  • 02/13/2024 - House: VOTE: Passage (54-Y 44-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/14/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 02/14/2024 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
  • 02/20/2024 - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N)
  • 02/22/2024 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
  • 02/23/2024 - Senate: Read third time
  • 02/23/2024 - Senate: Passed Senate (20-Y 17-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/23/2024 - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
  • 02/23/2024 - Senate: Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N)   Close Floor Vote
  • 02/28/2024 - House: Enrolled
  • 02/28/2024 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1534ER)
  • 02/28/2024 - House: Impact statement from DPB (HB1534ER)
  • 02/28/2024 - House: Signed by Speaker
  • 03/02/2024 - Senate: Signed by President
  • 03/11/2024 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
  • 03/11/2024 - Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
  • 04/08/2024 - Governor: Vetoed by Governor
  • 04/17/2024 - House: House sustained Governor's veto

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