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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Candidates for office; petition of qualified voters, start date."
+description: "Elections; candidates for office; petition ofqualified voters; start date. Clarifies the date from which validsignatures for petitions of qualified voters can be collected forpersons seeking to become candidates in certain elections."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
+legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 165"
+citation: "Virginia SB 165 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bryce E. Reeves"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-01-07"
+last_action: "2024-04-04"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75a80e14-5f99-4bb6-976a-1f165d9aebf9"
+source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+SB165"
+source_hash: "69f65df7472a92170bc42f25411c72062aa33a2a2c6e0a876d1af51d30831093"
+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 165 (2024) — Candidates for office; petition of qualified voters, start date.
+
+Elections; candidates for office; petition ofqualified voters; start date. Clarifies the date from which validsignatures for petitions of qualified voters can be collected forpersons seeking to become candidates in certain elections.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **CHAP0498** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+CHAP0498)
+2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100110D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB165)
+3. **SB165ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+ful+SB165ER)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
+- Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) — **22–0** (pass) · lower
+- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bryce E. Reeves — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100110D `filing, introduction`
+- **2024-01-07** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (SB165)
+- **2024-01-16** Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-01-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-01-19** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-22** Read third time and passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** Placed on Calendar
+- **2024-02-13** Read first time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-13** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-18** Assigned P & E sub: Election Administration `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
+- **2024-02-23** Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-27** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-28** Read third time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-28** Passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-02-28** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (97-Y 0-N) `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** Enrolled `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-04** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB165ER) `passage`
+- **2024-03-04** Impact statement from DPB (SB165ER)
+- **2024-03-04** Signed by Speaker `passage`
+- **2024-03-07** Signed by President `passage`
+- **2024-03-11** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 `enrolled`
+- **2024-03-11** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-04-04** Approved by Governor-Chapter 498 (effective 7/1/24) `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-04** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0498)
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/75a80e14-5f99-4bb6-976a-1f165d9aebf9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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