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Bill	Elections; political campaign advertisements, violations, civil penalties not to exceed $25,000.	Elections; political campaign advertisements;illegal negative ads; civil penalties. Provides that sponsorsviolating political campaign advertisement disclosure laws with advertisementsor campaign telephone calls that expressly advocate against a clearlyidentified candidate shall be subject to a civil penalty of $10,000.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 125	Virginia HB 125 (2022)	bill		enacted	Glenn R. Davis	6	45	10	2022-01-07	2022-04-27	openstates	ocd-bill/d12ede8d-5952-4a42-9c2d-cd36c7b8b377	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB125	04254082bd25ccef89d5b4c0c7db9034b0088df326fae2902a58aeeee4b00d17	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 125 (2022) — Elections; political campaign advertisements, violations, civil penalties not to exceed $25,000.

Elections; political campaign advertisements;illegal negative ads; civil penalties. Provides that sponsorsviolating political campaign advertisement disclosure laws with advertisementsor campaign telephone calls that expressly advocate against a clearlyidentified candidate shall be subject to a civil penalty of $10,000.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0744 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22107350D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Governor's substitute printed 22107616D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
4. HB125ER (committee substitute) — source
5. HB125ER2 (committee substitute) — source
6. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101869D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 0-N) — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N) — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) — 14–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Glenn R. Davis — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-07 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101869D introduction
• 2022-01-07 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-01-24 Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2022-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB125)
• 2022-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-28 Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-01 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-02 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-03 Read third time and passed House Block Vote (99-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-03 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (99-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-03 Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
• 2022-02-03 Passed House (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-03 VOTE: Passage #2 (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-04 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-04 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-03-01 Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (14-Y 0-N 1-A) committee-passage
• 2022-03-01 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-03-01 Committee substitute printed 22107350D-S1 substitution
• 2022-03-02 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-03-02 Committee substitute agreed to 22107350D-S1
• 2022-03-02 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HB125S1
• 2022-03-02 Passed Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-02 Senate substitute agreed to by House 22107350D-S1 (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-02 VOTE: Adoption (98-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-03 Impact statement from DPB (HB125S1)
• 2022-03-07 Enrolled
• 2022-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (HB125ER)
• 2022-03-08 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-08 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 22, 2022
• 2022-03-22 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Governor's recommendation received by House
• 2022-04-11 Governor's substitute printed 22107616D-H1
• 2022-04-27 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-04-27 House concurred in Governor's recommendation (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 VOTE: Adoption (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-04-27 Governor's recommendation adopted
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Reenrolled bill text (HB125ER2)
• 2022-04-27 Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Signed by President as reenrolled
• 2022-04-27 Enacted, Chapter 744 (effective 7/1/22) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d12ede8d-5952-4a42-9c2d-cd36c7b8b377. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).