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type: "Bill"
title: "Absentee voting; availability on Sundays in office of general registrar or voter satellite office."
description: "Absentee voting; early in person; availabilityon Sundays. Permits the electoral board or general registrarof a county or city to provide absentee voting in person in the officeof the general registrar or voter satellite office on Sundays."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1968"
citation: "Virginia HB 1968 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lamont Bagby"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-11"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a35d09a-baf6-4255-9737-369db72f3663"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1968"
source_hash: "2b97d1545ac312922b7377cce00bd5e5308b941a7a7b91f397a07a799c0ea4f9"
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 1968 (2021) — Absentee voting; availability on Sundays in office of general registrar or voter satellite office.
Absentee voting; early in person; availabilityon Sundays. Permits the electoral board or general registrarof a county or city to provide absentee voting in person in the officeof the general registrar or voter satellite office on Sundays.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0204** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0204)
2. **HB1968ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1968ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102134D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1968)
## Votes
- VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N) — **5445** (pass) · lower
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N) — **42** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 9-N) — **139** (pass) · lower
- Passed Senate (20-Y 17-N) — **2017** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (10-Y 2-N 3-A) — **102** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Lamont Bagby — primary (person)
- Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Chris L. Hurst — cosponsor (person)
- Eileen Filler-Corn — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Rodney T. Willett — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-11** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21102134D `introduction`
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Assigned P & E sub: Election Administration `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-18** Impact statement from DPB (HB1968)
- **2021-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 2-N)
- **2021-01-20** Reported from Privileges and Elections (13-Y 9-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** Read third time and passed House (55-Y 45-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25** VOTE: Passage (55-Y 45-N)
- **2021-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-26** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-16** Reported from Privileges and Elections (10-Y 2-N 3-A) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-19** Passed Senate (20-Y 17-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled
- **2021-02-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB1968ER)
- **2021-02-24** Signed by President
- **2021-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
- **2021-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 204 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a35d09a-baf6-4255-9737-369db72f3663`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).