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County and city precincts; required to be wholly contained within election districts.

County and city precincts; required to be wholly contained within election districts; waiver for administration of split precinct. Requires each county and city precinct to be wholly contained within a single congressional district, Senate district, House of Delegates district, and local election district. In each year ending in one, the governing body of each county and city is required to establish the precinct boundaries to be consistent with any congressional district, Senate district, House of Delegates district, and local election district that was adopted by the appropriate authority by June 15 of that year, and if new districts have not been adopted by the appropriate authority by that date, the governing body is permitted to use the districts as they existed on June 15 of that year as the basis for establishing the precincts to be used in the November elections held that year. The bill requires a governing body to apply to the State Board of Elections for a waiver to administer a split precinct if it is unable to establish a precinct with the minimum number of registered voters without splitting the precinct between two or more congressional districts, Senate districts, House of Delegates districts, or local election districts, and the State Board is authorized to grant the waiver or to direct the establishment of a precinct with less than the minimum number of registered voters as permitted by current law. A governing body that is granted a waiver to administer a split precinct or is directed to establish a precinct with fewer than the minimum number of voters is permitted to use that precinct for any election held that year. This bill incorporates SB 119 and SB 121.

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Virginia General Assembly

2020

SB 740

Virginia SB 740 (2020)

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Mark D. Obenshain

2020-01-08

2020-04-22

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ocd-bill/16323a01-0740-4593-a397-d1508ea50675

https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB740

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https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

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Virginia SB 740 (2020) — County and city precincts; required to be wholly contained within election districts.

Version chain

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

Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP1268) (committee substitute) — source
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB740ER) (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB740S1 (committee substitute) — source
Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB740S1 (committee substitute) — source
Impact statement from DPB (SB740H1) (committee substitute) — source
Reenrolled bill text (SB740ER2) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (20-Y 2-N) — 20–2 (pass) · lower
VOTE: (90-Y 1-N) — 89–1 (pass) · lower
VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 4-N) — 90–4 (pass) · lower
Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) — 0–40 (fail) · upper
VOTE: Passage (96-Y 2-N) — 95–2 (pass) · lower
Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N) — 39–1 (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

2020-01-08 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102798D introduction
2020-01-08 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
2020-01-21 Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
2020-01-21 Incorporates SB119 (Peake)
2020-01-21 Incorporates SB121 (Barker)
2020-01-21 Committee substitute printed 20106352D-S1 substitution
2020-01-23 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
2020-01-24 Read second time reading-2
2020-01-24 Reading of substitute waived
2020-01-24 Committee substitute agreed to 20106352D-S1
2020-01-24 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB740S1
2020-01-27 Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
2020-02-04 Impact statement from DPB (SB740S1)
2020-02-13 Placed on Calendar
2020-02-13 Read first time reading-1
2020-02-13 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
2020-02-14 Assigned P & E sub: Constitutional Amendments referral-committee
2020-02-17 Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
2020-02-21 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
2020-02-24 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
2020-02-28 Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (20-Y 2-N) committee-passage
2020-02-28 Committee substitute printed 20109368D-H1 substitution
2020-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (SB740H1)
2020-03-03 Read second time reading-2
2020-03-04 Read third time reading-3
2020-03-04 Committee substitute agreed to 20109368D-H1
2020-03-04 Passed by temporarily
2020-03-04 Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB740H1
2020-03-04 Passed House with substitute (96-Y 2-N) passage
2020-03-04 VOTE: Passage (96-Y 2-N)
2020-03-05 House substitute rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
2020-03-05 House insisted on substitute
2020-03-05 House requested conference committee
2020-03-05 Senate acceded to request (40-Y 0-N)
2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by Senate
2020-03-05 Conferees appointed by House
2020-03-07 Amended by conference committee
2020-03-07 Conference report agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-03-08 Conference report agreed to by House (91-Y 4-N)
2020-03-08 VOTE: Adoption (91-Y 4-N)
2020-03-18 Enrolled
2020-03-18 Signed by President
2020-03-19 Signed by Speaker
2020-03-20 Impact statement from DPB (SB740ER)
2020-03-20 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
2020-03-20 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by Senate
2020-04-22 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 1-N)
2020-04-22 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (90-Y 1-N)
2020-04-22 VOTE: (90-Y 1-N)
2020-04-22 Governor's recommendation adopted
2020-04-22 Reenrolled
2020-04-22 Reenrolled bill text (SB740ER2)
2020-04-22 Signed by President as reenrolled
2020-04-22 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
2020-04-22 Enacted, Chapter 1268 (effective 7/1/20) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16323a01-0740-4593-a397-d1508ea50675. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).

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