Student voters; public high schools to provide Virginia voter registration information. (HB1491)
Introduced By
Del. Nancy Guy (D-Virginia Beach) with support from co-patron Del. Mark Levine (D-Alexandria)
Progress
✓ |
Introduced |
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Passed Committee |
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Passed House |
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Passed Senate |
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Signed by Governor |
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Became Law |
Description
Student voters; Virginia voter registration. Requires each public high school to provide to any enrolled student who is of voting age or otherwise eligible to register to vote access to Virginia voter registration information and applications and the opportunity to complete such application during the normal course of the school day. Read the Bill »
Status
02/24/2020: Passed the Senate
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 01/08/2020 | Committee |
| 01/08/2020 | Presented and ordered printed 20103604D |
| 01/08/2020 | Referred to Committee on Education |
| 01/15/2020 | Assigned Education sub: Pre-K-12 |
| 01/22/2020 | Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment (6-Y 2-N) |
| 01/27/2020 | Reported from Education with amendment (20-Y 2-N) (see vote tally) |
| 01/29/2020 | Read first time |
| 01/30/2020 | Passed by for the day |
| 01/30/2020 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1491) |
| 01/31/2020 | Read second time |
| 01/31/2020 | Committee amendment agreed to |
| 01/31/2020 | Engrossed by House as amended HB1491E |
| 01/31/2020 | Printed as engrossed 20103604D-E |
| 02/03/2020 | Read third time and passed House (82-Y 16-N) |
| 02/03/2020 | VOTE: Passage (82-Y 16-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/04/2020 | Constitutional reading dispensed |
| 02/04/2020 | Referred to Committee on Education and Health |
| 02/06/2020 | Impact statement from DPB (HB1491E) |
| 02/11/2020 | Assigned Education sub: Public Education |
| 02/20/2020 | Reported from Education and Health (10-Y 5-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/21/2020 | Constitutional reading dispensed (32-Y 0-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/24/2020 | Read third time |
| 02/24/2020 | Passed Senate (30-Y 10-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/24/2020 | Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 1-N) (see vote tally) |
| 02/24/2020 | Passed Senate (28-Y 12-N) (see vote tally) |
Comments
Why do this? Why all this redundancy?
You're...you're opposed to schools helping kids register to vote?