HB2276
Voter registration; list maintenance activities, cancellation procedures, required record matches.
Status:
Vetoed
Latest Action:
April 2, 2025
House: House sustained Governor's veto
Chief Patron:
Cia Price (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Voter registration; list maintenance activities; cancellation procedures; record matches; required identification information; data standards.
Requires certain, specified identification information to be included on the lists or records received by the Department of Elections for list maintenance purposes and requires the Department, upon receiving any such list or record, to do an initial comparison of the information included on such list or record with the ... (More) list of registered voters and determine the confidence score for any match. The bill specifies that only records with matches with a confidence score of at least 80 are transmitted to the appropriate general registrars. The bill prohibits the use of voter data received from another state or jurisdiction or through a list comparison for list maintenance purposes when the data file does not include a unique identifier for each individual whose information is contained in the data file. The bill requires the Department to annually review all sources of data utilized for list maintenance activities for the purpose of determining the validity, completeness, accuracy, and reliability of the data received from each source, and to include the results of such review in its annual report to the House and Senate Committees on Privileges and Elections regarding its list maintenance activities. The bill prohibits the cancellation within 90 days of any election of any registration identified as belonging to a person no longer residing in the Commonwealth or otherwise no longer entitled to vote by a data match program conducted using lists of registered voters exchanged with other states. The bill requires the general registrars to send notice prior to cancelling a voter's record regardless of the reason for cancellation. Lastly, the bill clarifies that when a voter's registration is canceled, a cancellation record must be created and that such records are public in accordance with the Virginia Freedom of Information Act and the National Voter Registration Act. The bill includes numerous technical amendments for organizational purposes. Certain provisions of the bill have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/08/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25101670D
- 01/08/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 01/23/2025 - House: Placed on Privileges and Elections Agenda
- 01/24/2025 - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute and referred to Appropriations (13-Y 8-N)
- 01/24/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25105975D-H1
- 01/24/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/25/2025 - House: Assigned Approps sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
- 01/26/2025 - House: Placed on Appropriations Agenda
- 01/27/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 1-N)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2276)
- 01/28/2025 - House: Placed on Appropriations Agenda
- 01/29/2025 - House: Reported from Appropriations (16-Y 5-N)
- 01/31/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Privileges and Elections Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (56-Y 42-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- 02/06/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2276)
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 7-N)
- 02/11/2025 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (10-Y 4-N)
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 25107698D-S1
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/20/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2276)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 18-N 1-A) Close Floor Vote
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (20-Y 18-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/20/2025 - House: Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (38-Y 0-N)
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senate requested conference committee
- 02/20/2025 - House: House acceded to request
- 02/20/2025 - House: Conferees appointed by House
- 02/20/2025 - House: Delegates: Price, Sickles, Bloxom
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Conferees appointed by Senate
- 02/20/2025 - Senate: Senators: VanValkenburg, Carroll Foy, Salim
- 02/21/2025 - Amended by conference committee
- 02/21/2025 - House: Conference substitute printed 25107986D-H2
- 02/21/2025 - House: Conference report agreed to by House (54-Y 41-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/21/2025 - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (22-Y 18-N) Close Floor Vote
- 02/24/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2276)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 03/07/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2276ER)
- 03/07/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/10/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/2025 - House: 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 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB2276)
- 03/24/2025 - House: Governor's Veto Received by House
- 03/24/2025 - Vetoed by Governor
- 04/02/2025 - House: House sustained Governor's veto
