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type: "Bill"
title: "Absentee voting; eligibility of persons granted protective order."
description: "Absentee voting; eligibility of persons granted protective order."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1912"
citation: "Virginia HB 1912 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Procedure", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joseph R. Yost"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2017-01-10"
last_action: "2017-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6aa23bd9-48cf-4e37-b382-b3cd8f7a5d88"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1912"
source_hash: "c93fb765c2816767f7df89e74209d1c579bad99c5555b1373b96d773ba6bcc68"
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 1912 (2017) — Absentee voting; eligibility of persons granted protective order.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0631)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0631)
2. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1912ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1912ER)
3. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102030D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1912)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed House — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **390** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Privileges and Elections — **120** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting — **70** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Privileges and Elections — **210** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Joseph R. Yost — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17102030D `introduction`
- **2017-01-10** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-13** Assigned P & E sub: Elections `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-23** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2017-01-24** Passed by for the day
- **2017-01-25** Passed by for the day
- **2017-01-26** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-27** Read third time and passed House (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-30** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2017-01-30** 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
- **2017-03-20** Approved by Governor-Chapter 631 (effective 7/1/17) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6aa23bd9-48cf-4e37-b382-b3cd8f7a5d88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).