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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Absentee ballots; expediting counting of absentee ballots returned by mail prior to election day."
+description: "Absentee ballots; expediting counting of absentee ballots returned by mail prior to election day."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "SB 960"
+citation: "Virginia SB 960 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lionell Spruill, Sr."]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2017-01-02"
+last_action: "2017-03-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/079633b2-d70d-4c82-9a7f-84d862f9c766"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+SB960"
+source_hash: "27e7c80121e28557477cfe433b23f5f65a0dac0173cacced1bfc6f52dda60a8c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
+---
+
+# Virginia SB 960 (2017) — Absentee ballots; expediting counting of absentee ballots returned by mail prior to election day.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0275)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0275)
+2. **Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB960ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB960ER)
+3. **Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103086D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+SB960)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Read third time and passed Senate — **38–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **7–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passed House — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Privileges and Elections — **9–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Reported from Privileges and Elections — **19–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — primary (person)
+- Roslyn C. Tyler — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-01-02** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17103086D `introduction`
+- **2017-01-02** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-20** Passed by for the day
+- **2017-01-23** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2017-01-31** Placed on Calendar
+- **2017-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2017-01-31** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2017-01-31** Assigned P & E sub: Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2017-02-13** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2017-02-14** Passed by for the day
+- **2017-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2017-02-15** Passed House (99-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2017-02-17** Enrolled
+- **2017-02-17** Signed by Speaker
+- **2017-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2017-02-21** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
+- **2017-02-21** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
+- **2017-03-03** Approved by Governor-Chapter 275 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/079633b2-d70d-4c82-9a7f-84d862f9c766`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
+