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| Bill | Voter registration drives; compensation prohibitions. | Prohibits any individual or group conducting a voter registration drive from compensating its volunteers or employees on the basis of the number of completed voter registration applications the volunteer or employee collects. The bill also prohibits volunteers and employees from accepting compensation based on the number of completed voter registration applications he collects. | us/states/va | Virginia General Assembly | 2017 | HB 1431 | Virginia HB 1431 (2017) |
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Virginia HB 1431 (2017) — Voter registration drives; compensation prohibitions.
Prohibits any individual or group conducting a voter registration drive from compensating its volunteers or employees on the basis of the number of completed voter registration applications the volunteer or employee collects. The bill also prohibits volunteers and employees from accepting compensation based on the number of completed voter registration applications he collects.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0336) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1431ER) (committee substitute) — source
- House: Committee substitute printed 17104463D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
- House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100850D (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Reported from Privileges and Elections — 8–6 (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — 21–19 (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — 39–0 (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House — 96–2 (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 5–1 (pass) · legislature
Sponsors
- Mark L. Cole — primary (person)
- Hyland F. "Buddy" Fowler, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- R. Steven Landes — cosponsor (person)
- Richard H. Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- S. Chris Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Tony O. Wilt — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2016-11-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17100850D
introduction - 2016-11-14 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
referral-committee - 2017-01-10 Assigned P & E sub: Campaigns
referral-committee - 2017-01-23 Read first time
reading-1 - 2017-01-24 Read second time
reading-2 - 2017-01-24 Committee substitute agreed to 17104463D-H1
- 2017-01-24 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1431H1
- 2017-01-25 Read third time and passed House (96-Y 2-N)
passage, reading-3 - 2017-01-26 Constitutional reading dispensed
- 2017-01-26 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
referral-committee - 2017-02-17 Read third time
reading-3 - 2017-02-21 Enrolled
- 2017-02-21 Signed by Speaker
- 2017-02-21 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
- 2017-03-13 Approved by Governor-Chapter 336 (effective 7/1/17)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/384252bd-5170-40c2-ba5b-8076d025db92. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).