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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Political campaign advertisements; definition of campaign telephone calls, etc.	Elections; political campaign advertisements;definition of campaign telephone calls and telephone call; text messages.Adds text messages to the definition of campaign telephone calls.The bill also defines "telephone call" as any single telephone callor text message, electronic or otherwise, that when combined withother telephone calls constitutes campaign telephone calls.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2020	HB 1062	Virginia HB 1062 (2020)	bill		enacted	Dawn M. Adams	3	32	11	2020-01-07	2020-03-31	openstates	ocd-bill/ff999eda-829d-4558-8ddc-e7f86dbc4e7f	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1062	79046d873b1d5581673f79362c8c47c1671812a5b113e456814162c8ca542ca4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1062 (2020) — Political campaign advertisements; definition of campaign telephone calls, etc.

Elections; political campaign advertisements;definition of campaign telephone calls and telephone call; text messages.Adds text messages to the definition of campaign telephone calls.The bill also defines "telephone call" as any single telephone callor text message, electronic or otherwise, that when combined withother telephone calls constitutes campaign telephone calls.

Version chain

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

1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0554) (committee substitute) — source
2. Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1062ER) (committee substitute) — source
3. Impact statement from DPB (HB1062) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Tabled in Privileges and Elections — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 0-N) — 12–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dawn M. Adams — primary (person)
• Ibraheem S. Samirah — cosponsor (person)
• Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
• Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20101982D introduction
• 2020-01-07 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2020-01-14 Assigned P & E sub: Campaign Finance referral-committee
• 2020-01-16 Impact statement from DPB (HB1062)
• 2020-01-16 Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-17 Tabled in Privileges and Elections
• 2020-01-24 Reconsidered by Privileges and Elections - removed from table (19-Y 3-N)
• 2020-01-24 Yea - 19 Lindsey, Simon, Sickles, Rasoul, Price, Krizek, Levine, Adams, D.M., VanValkenburg,
• 2020-01-24 Convers-Fowler, Reid, Askew, Simonds, Orrock, O'Quinn, Head, Rush, Bloxom, Runion
• 2020-01-24 Nay 3 - Cole, M.L., Adams, L.R., McGuire
• 2020-01-24 Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-01-28 Read first time reading-1
• 2020-01-29 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2020-01-30 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2020-01-30 VOTE: (100-Y 0-N)
• 2020-01-31 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2020-01-31 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2020-02-25 Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2020-02-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-28 Read third time reading-3
• 2020-02-28 Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-28 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-28 Passed Senate (36-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-02-28 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 0-N)
• 2020-02-28 Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) passage
• 2020-03-05 Enrolled
• 2020-03-06 Impact statement from DPB (HB1062ER)
• 2020-03-06 Signed by Speaker
• 2020-03-06 Signed by President
• 2020-03-12 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 12, 2020
• 2020-03-12 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
• 2020-03-31 Approved by Governor-Chapter 554 (effective 7/1/20) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff999eda-829d-4558-8ddc-e7f86dbc4e7f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).