SB1009
Elections; conduct of election, ranked choice voting, report.
Status:
Vetoed
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
Chief Patron:
Saddam Azlan Salim (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Introduced. Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report.
Allows elections for any local office to be conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards for and to approve vote tabulating software for use with existing voting systems in elections conducted by ranked choice voting and to produce generalized voter education ... (More) materials on ranked choice voting. The bill permits the State Board to create and modify recount procedures to the extent necessary to accommodate a recount of an election conducted by ranked choice voting. Finally, the bill directs the Department of Elections to review the testing and approval framework for voting equipment in the Commonwealth and submit a report of such review no later than the first day of the 2026 Regular Session of the General Assembly. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25104511D
- 01/07/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 7-N)
- 01/21/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 01/29/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 4-N)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (39-Y 0-N 1-A)
- 01/30/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/2025 - Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/03/2025 - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/06/2025 - House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/06/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/06/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/09/2025 - House: Assigned PE sub: Election Administration
- 02/09/2025 - House: Placed on Privileges and Elections Agenda
- 02/10/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/13/2025 - House: Placed on Privileges and Elections Agenda
- 02/14/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25107301D-H1
- 02/14/2025 - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/18/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/18/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1009)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Read third time
- 02/19/2025 - House: Privileges and Elections Substitute agreed to
- 02/19/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/19/2025 - House: Passed House with substitute (50-Y 46-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N) Close Floor Vote
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1009ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2025 - Senate: Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2025
- 03/11/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/11/2025 - Senate: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1009)
- 03/24/2025 - Senate: Governor's Veto Received by Senate
- 03/24/2025 - Vetoed by Governor
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 04/02/2025 - Senate: Senate sustained Governor's veto
