republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/hb-492.md

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Bill	Campaign finance; record retention requirements and reviews of campaign finance disclosure reports.	Campaign finance; record retention requirements and reviews of campaign finance disclosure reports. Requires campaign committee treasurers to retain certain records that may be used in reviews of campaign committee accounts. The bill gives the Department of Elections the authority and duty to conduct reviews of a percentage of campaign committees and to report the results of such reviews annually to the State Board of Elections, the Governor, and the General Assembly and make such report available on the Department's website. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024, and provides that campaign finance reports filed prior to January 1, 2024, are not subject to the provisions of the bill.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 492	Virginia HB 492 (2022)	bill		enacted	David L. Bulova	3	47	11	2022-01-11	2022-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/dd65c457-31e7-4a43-9af0-776f9cbc47e2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB492	5bfd7ee5981f8e936bee56027b4d3f01ae776c782b1c4637eb9c28f6c88c7af3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 492 (2022) — Campaign finance; record retention requirements and reviews of campaign finance disclosure reports.

Campaign finance; record retention requirements and reviews of campaign finance disclosure reports. Requires campaign committee treasurers to retain certain records that may be used in reviews of campaign committee accounts. The bill gives the Department of Elections the authority and duty to conduct reviews of a percentage of campaign committees and to report the results of such reviews annually to the State Board of Elections, the Governor, and the General Assembly and make such report available on the Department's website. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2024, and provides that campaign finance reports filed prior to January 1, 2024, are not subject to the provisions of the bill.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0258 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB492ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101163D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Privileges and Elections (17-Y 2-N) — 17–2 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (81-Y 19-N) — 81–18 (pass) · lower
• Committee amendment reconsidered (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N) — 14–1 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 2-N) — 95–2 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• David L. Bulova — primary (person)
• Dan I. Helmer — cosponsor (person)
• Kenneth R. Plum — cosponsor (person)
• Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
• Scott A. Surovell — cosponsor (person)
• Timothy V. Anderson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101163D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-01-24 Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2022-01-26 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-26 Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
• 2022-01-28 Reported from Privileges and Elections (17-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-28 Referred to Committee on Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-29 Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay referral-committee
• 2022-01-31 Impact statement from DPB (HB492)
• 2022-01-31 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-31 Reported from Appropriations (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-02 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-03 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2022-02-04 Read third time and passed House (81-Y 19-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-04 VOTE: Passage (81-Y 19-N)
• 2022-02-07 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-07 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-22 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-23 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-03-02 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-04 Passed by for the day
• 2022-03-07 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-07 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-03-07 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-03-07 Passed by for the day
• 2022-03-08 Passed by for the day
• 2022-03-09 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-09 Passed by for the day
• 2022-03-10 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-10 Committee amendment reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-10 Passed by temporarily
• 2022-03-10 Committee amendment rejected
• 2022-03-10 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-03-10 Amendment by Senator Spruill agreed to amendment-passage
• 2022-03-10 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2022-03-10 Passed Senate with amendment (40-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-10 Senate amendment agreed to by House (96-Y 2-N)
• 2022-03-10 VOTE: Adoption (96-Y 2-N)
• 2022-03-21 Enrolled
• 2022-03-21 Impact statement from DPB (HB492ER)
• 2022-03-21 Signed by President
• 2022-03-22 Signed by Speaker
• 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
• 2022-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 258 (effective 1/1/24) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dd65c457-31e7-4a43-9af0-776f9cbc47e2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).