---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elections; political campaign advertisements, violations, civil penalties not to exceed $25,000."
description: "Elections; political campaign advertisements;illegal negative ads; civil penalties. Provides that sponsorsviolating political campaign advertisement disclosure laws with advertisementsor campaign telephone calls that expressly advocate against a clearlyidentified candidate shall be subject to a civil penalty of $10,000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 125"
citation: "Virginia HB 125 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glenn R. Davis"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 45
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2022-01-07"
last_action: "2022-04-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d12ede8d-5952-4a42-9c2d-cd36c7b8b377"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB125"
source_hash: "04254082bd25ccef89d5b4c0c7db9034b0088df326fae2902a58aeeee4b00d17"
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 125 (2022) — Elections; political campaign advertisements, violations, civil penalties not to exceed $25,000.

Elections; political campaign advertisements;illegal negative ads; civil penalties. Provides that sponsorsviolating political campaign advertisement disclosure laws with advertisementsor campaign telephone calls that expressly advocate against a clearlyidentified candidate shall be subject to a civil penalty of $10,000.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **CHAP0744** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0744)
2. **Committee substitute printed 22107350D-S1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB125S1)
3. **Governor's substitute printed 22107616D-H1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB125H1)
4. **HB125ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB125ER)
5. **HB125ER2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB125ER2)
6. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101869D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+HB125)

## Votes

- Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 0-N) — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — **14–0** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Glenn R. Davis — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-01-07** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101869D `introduction`
- **2022-01-07** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-24** Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2 `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-25** Impact statement from DPB (HB125)
- **2022-01-26** Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-28** Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-01** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-02** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2022-02-03** Read third time and passed House Block Vote (99-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-03** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-03** Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- **2022-02-03** Passed House (100-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-02-03** VOTE: Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-02-04** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2022-02-04** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-01** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-03-01** Committee substitute printed 22107350D-S1 `substitution`
- **2022-03-02** Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-02** Reading of substitute waived
- **2022-03-02** Committee substitute agreed to 22107350D-S1
- **2022-03-02** Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB125S1
- **2022-03-02** Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-02** Senate substitute agreed to by House 22107350D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
- **2022-03-03** Impact statement from DPB (HB125S1)
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (HB125ER)
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-22** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
- **2022-03-22** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-04-11** Governor's recommendation received by House
- **2022-04-11** Governor's substitute printed 22107616D-H1
- **2022-04-27** Placed on Calendar
- **2022-04-27** House concurred in Governor's recommendation (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
- **2022-04-27** Governor's recommendation adopted
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Reenrolled bill text (HB125ER2)
- **2022-04-27** Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Signed by President as reenrolled
- **2022-04-27** Enacted, Chapter 744 (effective 7/1/22) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d12ede8d-5952-4a42-9c2d-cd36c7b8b377`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).