Virginia 2024 Regular Session Status: In Committee

HB 1176 — Elections; voter identification containing photograph required, availability of absentee voting.

Last action — Left in Privileges and Elections

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
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    Passed House of Delegates
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    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill died with 2024 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.

This bill is no longer active — its legislative session has ended, so there are no live odds of enactment. It would have to be reintroduced in the current session to move again.

Summary

Elections; voter identification containing photograph required; who may register up to and including the day of the election;absentee voting application requirements; absentee voting in personavailability; return of absentee ballots. Requires presentationof a form of identification containing a photograph in order to voteand provides that a voter who does not have one of the required formsof identification is entitled to cast a provisional ballot. The bill repeals a provision that would permit any person who is qualifiedto register to vote to do so in person up to and including the dayof the election and limits the persons who are entitled to registerto vote after the close of registration records to members of a uniformedservice on active duty, persons who are residing temporarily outsideof the United States, and their spouses and dependents. The billlimits the period during which absentee voting in person is availablefrom 45 days preceding the date of the election to the 14 days precedingthe date of the election. The bill requires that absentee ballotsreturned by mail be returned to the office of the general registrarby the close of polls on election day and be postmarked on or beforethe Saturday preceding the date of the election. The bill eliminatesthe use of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots.The bill requires absentee ballot applications to contain the lastfour digits of the applicant's social security number.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Left in Privileges and Elections

  2. Impact statement from DPB (HB1176)

  3. Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 1-N)

  4. Assigned P & E sub: Election Administration

  5. Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

  6. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24101166D

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 6 co-sponsors · 141 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (6)

Not signed on (141)

141 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 1-N)

Passed 7 Yea · 1 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 7101
Total 7101
% of votes cast 78%11%0%11%
How each member voted (9)
Member Party Vote
Green, W. Chad — Nay
H. Otto Wachsmann, Jr. — Yea
Jackie H. Glass — Yea
Kannan Srinivasan — Yea
Maldonado, Michelle Lopes — Yea
Marcia S. "Cia" Price — Not Voting
Robert S. Bloxom, Jr. — Yea
Rozia A. Henson, Jr. — Yea
Sickles, Mark D. — Yea

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Subjects

elections
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Frequently asked questions

What does HB 1176 do?
Elections; voter identification containing photograph required; who may register up to and including the day of the election;absentee voting application requirements; absentee voting in personavailability; return of absentee ballots. Requires presentationof a form of identification containing a photograph in order to voteand provides that a voter who does not have one of the required formsof identification is entitled to cast a provisional ballot. The bill repeals a provision that would permit any person who is qualifiedto register to vote to do so in person up to and including the dayof the election and limits the persons who are entitled to registerto vote after the close of registration records to members of a uniformedservice on active duty, persons who are residing temporarily outsideof the United States, and their spouses and dependents. The billlimits the period during which absentee voting in person is availablefrom 45 days preceding the date of the election to the 14 days precedingthe date of the election. The bill requires that absentee ballotsreturned by mail be returned to the office of the general registrarby the close of polls on election day and be postmarked on or beforethe Saturday preceding the date of the election. The bill eliminatesthe use of drop-off locations for the return of absentee ballots.The bill requires absentee ballot applications to contain the lastfour digits of the applicant's social security number.
Who sponsors HB 1176?
HB 1176 is sponsored by Scott A. Wyatt, Wendell S. Walker, Eric R. Zehr, Hillary Pugh Kent, Orrock, Robert D., Sr., Green, W. Chad, and Earley, Mark L., Jr..
What is the current status of HB 1176?
This bill died with 2024 Regular Session. It reached “In Committee” and never advanced before the session ended, so it can no longer move — a new version would have to be reintroduced in the current session.
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