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Bill	Elections; local electoral boards & general registrars to perform certain risk-limiting audits, etc.	Elections; conduct of election; election results; risk-limiting audits. Requires local electoral boards and general registrars to perform certain risk-limiting audits, defined in the bill, under the supervision of the Department of Elections and in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the State Board of Elections with a risk limit of at least 10 percent. The bill provides that localities are required to participate in such audits at least once every five years. The bill also provides that the Department shall submit a report on the results of such audits to the State Board. The provisions of the bill requiring that such audits be conducted (i) for at least one randomly selected contested race for the General Assembly in the year of a general election for members of the General Assembly and (ii) for any other contested race that is necessary to ensure that each locality participates in a risk-limiting audit of an office within its jurisdiction at least once every five years or that the State Board finds appropriate have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023. The provision of the bill requiring that such audits be conducted for at least one randomly selected contested race for an office that requires certification by the State Board in the year of general election for any local office has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024. The bill also requires the Department to convene a work group to consider and propose a process and timeline for implementing risk-limiting audits of statewide contests. This bill is identical to SB 370.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	HB 895	Virginia HB 895 (2022)	bill		enacted	Terry G. Kilgore	4	30	8	2022-01-12	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/a641e313-40ed-4d07-a0b8-c472c2200fd2	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+HB895	f3e75b1bc6eb721f77670c9155db279819c816a1a5190ea8ff588904ce30908d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 895 (2022) — Elections; local electoral boards & general registrars to perform certain risk-limiting audits, etc.

Elections; conduct of election; election results; risk-limiting audits. Requires local electoral boards and general registrars to perform certain risk-limiting audits, defined in the bill, under the supervision of the Department of Elections and in accordance with the procedures prescribed by the State Board of Elections with a risk limit of at least 10 percent. The bill provides that localities are required to participate in such audits at least once every five years. The bill also provides that the Department shall submit a report on the results of such audits to the State Board. The provisions of the bill requiring that such audits be conducted (i) for at least one randomly selected contested race for the General Assembly in the year of a general election for members of the General Assembly and (ii) for any other contested race that is necessary to ensure that each locality participates in a risk-limiting audit of an office within its jurisdiction at least once every five years or that the State Board finds appropriate have a delayed effective date of July 1, 2023. The provision of the bill requiring that such audits be conducted for at least one randomly selected contested race for an office that requires certification by the State Board in the year of general election for any local office has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2024. The bill also requires the Department to convene a work group to consider and propose a process and timeline for implementing risk-limiting audits of statewide contests. This bill is identical to SB 370.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0443 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22105719D-H1 (committee substitute) — source
3. HB895ER (committee substitute) — source
4. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104191D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 2-A) — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Terry G. Kilgore — primary (person)
• Mark D. Sickles — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-12 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104191D introduction
• 2022-01-12 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (HB895)
• 2022-02-07 Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #2 referral-committee
• 2022-02-09 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-09 House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-11 Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-11 Committee substitute printed 22105719D-H1 substitution
• 2022-02-13 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-14 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-14 Committee substitute agreed to 22105719D-H1
• 2022-02-14 Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB895H1
• 2022-02-14 Impact statement from DPB (HB895H1)
• 2022-02-15 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-15 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-16 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2022-02-16 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-02-22 Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-24 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-25 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-02-25 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-02-25 Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-25 Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N 2-A) passage
• 2022-03-01 Enrolled
• 2022-03-01 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-02 Impact statement from DPB (HB895ER)
• 2022-03-02 Signed by President
• 2022-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 443 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a641e313-40ed-4d07-a0b8-c472c2200fd2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).