Absentee voting; duties of general registrar and electoral board. (HB38)

Introduced By

Del. Mark Cole (R-Fredericksburg)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Absentee voting; duties of general registrar and electoral board.  Broadens the type of certification of mailing required when sending absentee ballot materials to include certification of expedited mailing or delivery by commercial delivery providers as well as the United States Postal Service. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

DateAction
12/13/2011Committee
12/13/2011Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/12 12101203D
12/13/2011Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
01/12/2012Assigned P & E sub: Elections Subcommittee
01/17/2012Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
01/18/2012Impact statement from DPB (HB38)
01/20/2012Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/23/2012Read first time
01/24/2012Read second time and engrossed
01/25/2012Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
01/25/2012VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/25/2012Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
01/25/2012Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
01/25/2012VOTE: PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
01/26/2012Constitutional reading dispensed
01/26/2012Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
02/21/2012Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/23/2012Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2012Read third time
02/24/2012Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2012Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2012Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/28/2012Impact statement from DPB (HB38)
03/01/2012Enrolled
03/01/2012Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB38ER)
03/01/2012Signed by Speaker
03/03/2012Signed by President
03/05/2012Impact statement from DPB (HB38ER)
03/09/2012Impact statement from DPB (HB38ER)
03/30/2012G Approved by Governor-Chapter 393 (effective 7/1/12)
03/30/2012G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0393)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 45 seconds.

Comments

Ed Ablard writes:

Permitting any private person which includes corporations to deliver absentee ballots to an absentee ballot polling place is hazardous to the democratic system.

Absentee ballots are an exception to the logic of the democratic process where people gather together to elect their officials where their neighbors can see that no coercion is applied to the voter.

Lets not get carried away with the free enterprise system to the extent that is advanced in this bill.