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Bill Form of ballot; order of independent candidates, required paperwork. Provides that when there is more than one independent candidate for an office, their names shall appear on the ballot in an order determined by the priority of time of filing all required paperwork for the office. In the event that two or more candidates file simultaneously, the order of filing is determined by lot by the electoral board. Currently, this order applies only to the names of candidates for school board, and the names of all other independent candidates appear alphabetically. This bill is identical to us/states/va Virginia General Assembly 2017 HB 2179 Virginia HB 2179 (2017)
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Virginia HB 2179 (2017) — Form of ballot; order of independent candidates, required paperwork.

Provides that when there is more than one independent candidate for an office, their names shall appear on the ballot in an order determined by the priority of time of filing all required paperwork for the office. In the event that two or more candidates file simultaneously, the order of filing is determined by lot by the electoral board. Currently, this order applies only to the names of candidates for school board, and the names of all other independent candidates appear alphabetically. This bill is identical to

Version chain

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

  1. Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0352) (committee substitute) — source
  2. House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB2179ER) (committee substitute) — source
  3. House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101229D (committee substitute) — source
  4. House: Printed as engrossed 17101229D-E (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment — 220 (pass) · legislature
  • Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — 980 (pass) · legislature
  • Constitutional reading dispensed — 390 (pass) · legislature
  • Reported from Privileges and Elections — 140 (pass) · legislature
  • Passed Senate — 400 (pass) · legislature
  • Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment — 70 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

  • Mark D. Sickles — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101229D introduction
  • 2017-01-11 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
  • 2017-01-16 Assigned P & E sub: Campaigns referral-committee
  • 2017-01-30 Read first time reading-1
  • 2017-01-31 Read second time reading-2
  • 2017-01-31 Committee amendment agreed to
  • 2017-01-31 Engrossed by House as amended HB2179E
  • 2017-01-31 Printed as engrossed 17101229D-E
  • 2017-02-01 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
  • 2017-02-02 Constitutional reading dispensed
  • 2017-02-02 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 352 (effective 7/1/17) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e0b1569-bfdb-45b7-bb2b-1dd9c24aba28. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).