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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record."
+description: "Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record. Requires any electronic voting system approved by the State Board of Elections to retain each printed ballot cast. Printed ballots are currently defined to include machine-readable ballots, and the bill amends the definition of a machine-readable ballot to mean a tangible ballot that is marked by a voter or by a system or device operated by voter, is available for verification by the voter at the time the ballot is cast, and is then fed into and scanned by a separate counting machine. The bill amends the requirements for sealing and delivering ballots after an election to include printed ballots; current law only addresses paper ballots."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 1053"
+citation: "Virginia HB 1053 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mark H. Levine"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2020-01-07"
+last_action: "2020-03-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/880791e1-c5a3-4942-8e7e-cfbac1e831e0"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1053"
+source_hash: "a3f686ea46fac4c538d21ac481a326d3536e6bf39c073c5d489006b830d3afa5"
+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 1053 (2020) — Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record.
+
+Voting systems; voter-verifiable paper record. Requires any electronic voting system approved by the State Board of Elections to retain each printed ballot cast. Printed ballots are currently defined to include machine-readable ballots, and the bill amends the definition of a machine-readable ballot to mean a tangible ballot that is marked by a voter or by a system or device operated by voter, is available for verification by the voter at the time the ballot is cast, and is then fed into and scanned by a separate counting machine. The bill amends the requirements for sealing and delivering ballots after an election to include printed ballots; current law only addresses paper ballots.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0294)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0294)
+2. **Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1053ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1053ER)
+3. **Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1053H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1053H1)
+4. **Impact statement from DPB (HB1053)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1053)
+
+## Votes
+
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N) — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N) — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mark H. Levine — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20104039D `introduction`
+- **2020-01-07** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-13** Assigned P & E sub: Gubernatorial Appointments `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-22** Impact statement from DPB (HB1053)
+- **2020-01-30** Impact statement from DHCD/CLG (HB1053)
+- **2020-02-05** House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
+- **2020-02-05** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (6-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-07** Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-07** Committee substitute printed 20107096D-H1 `substitution`
+- **2020-02-09** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-10** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-10** Committee substitute agreed to 20107096D-H1
+- **2020-02-10** Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1053H1
+- **2020-02-11** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-11** Impact statement from DPB (HB1053H1)
+- **2020-02-11** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-12** Constitutional reading dispensed
+- **2020-02-12** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-20** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2020-02-21** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-21** Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** Enrolled
+- **2020-02-26** Impact statement from DPB (HB1053ER)
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by Speaker
+- **2020-02-27** Signed by President
+- **2020-03-05** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 5, 2020
+- **2020-03-05** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 12, 2020
+- **2020-03-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 294 (effective 7/1/20) `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/880791e1-c5a3-4942-8e7e-cfbac1e831e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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