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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006; applicability to certain candidates for town offices."
+description: "Makes the provisions of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act (the Act) applicable to any candidate for a town office in a town with a population of less than 25,000 if such candidate accepts contributions or makes expenditures in excess of $25,000 within the candidate's election cycle. Currently, the Act does not apply to town elections in a town with a population of less than 25,000 unless an ordinance in that town provides otherwise."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 1719"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1719 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties", "Cities and Towns", "Elections"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Chris L. Hurst"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2018-12-17"
+last_action: "2019-04-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fa133d1-5ed4-4825-a0e4-6e1e17a108d9"
+source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HB1719"
+source_hash: "bf19f46779329af720d16e7dd03bce770b99f51c170719d8278fcd0c8a2f8c67"
+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 HB 1719 (2019) — Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006; applicability to certain candidates for town offices.
+
+Makes the provisions of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act (the Act) applicable to any candidate for a town office in a town with a population of less than 25,000 if such candidate accepts contributions or makes expenditures in excess of $25,000 within the candidate's election cycle. Currently, the Act does not apply to town elections in a town with a population of less than 25,000 unless an ordinance in that town provides otherwise.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0825)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0825)
+2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1719ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1719ER)
+3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101047D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1719)
+4. **House: Reenrolled bill text (HB1719ER2)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HB1719ER2)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Privileges and Elections — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Privileges and Elections — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed Senate — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- House concurred in Governor's recommendation — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Chris L. Hurst — primary (person)
+- Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-12-17** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101047D `introduction`
+- **2018-12-17** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-12** Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-29** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2019-01-30** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2019-01-31** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2019-02-01** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2019-02-01** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-15** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-20** Enrolled
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by Speaker
+- **2019-02-20** Signed by President
+- **2019-02-27** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 27, 2019
+- **2019-02-27** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 26, 2019
+- **2019-03-25** Governor's recommendation received by House
+- **2019-04-03** Placed on Calendar
+- **2019-04-03** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2019-04-03** Governor's recommendation adopted
+- **2019-04-03** Reenrolled
+- **2019-04-03** Reenrolled bill text (HB1719ER2)
+- **2019-04-03** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
+- **2019-04-03** Signed by President as reenrolled
+- **2019-04-03** Enacted, Chapter 825 (effective 7/1/19) `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fa133d1-5ed4-4825-a0e4-6e1e17a108d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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