republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-211.md

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Bill	Voter registration; list of decedent transmitted by St. Reg. of Vital Records to Dept. of Elections.	Voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previous week. Currently, this list is transmitted monthly. The bill requires the general registrars to use this information to conduct list maintenance and to promptly cancel the registration of a person on the list. This bill is identical to HB 55.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 211	Virginia SB 211 (2022)	bill		enacted	Jennifer A. Kiggans	4	32	6	2022-01-10	2022-03-11	openstates	ocd-bill/c012bd24-23e5-417f-8a26-1bd3f2516cea	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB211	10f3b6200c99084ab7d2f7f2d4037ef1c34ef68a39b8c486f866766d7e6edbe5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 211 (2022) — Voter registration; list of decedent transmitted by St. Reg. of Vital Records to Dept. of Elections.

Voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previous week. Currently, this list is transmitted monthly. The bill requires the general registrars to use this information to conduct list maintenance and to promptly cancel the registration of a person on the list. This bill is identical to HB 55.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0028 (committee substitute) — source
2. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100127D (committee substitute) — source
3. Printed as engrossed 22100127D-E (committee substitute) — source
4. SB211ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) — 32–8 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (12-Y 3-N) — 12–3 (pass) · upper
• VOTE: Passage (83-Y 16-N) — 82–16 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 1-N) — 20–1 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) — 13–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Jennifer A. Kiggans — primary (person)
• David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
• Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-10 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100127D introduction
• 2022-01-10 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-01-17 Impact statement from DPB (SB211)
• 2022-01-18 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-18 Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (12-Y 3-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-18 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-20 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-01-26 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) committee-passage
• 2022-01-27 Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
• 2022-01-28 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-01-28 Reading of amendment waived
• 2022-01-28 Committee amendment agreed to
• 2022-01-28 Engrossed by Senate as amended SB211E
• 2022-01-28 Printed as engrossed 22100127D-E
• 2022-01-31 Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-01 Impact statement from DPB (SB211E)
• 2022-02-21 Placed on Calendar
• 2022-02-21 Read first time reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-02-25 Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 1-N) committee-passage
• 2022-03-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-03-02 Read third time reading-3
• 2022-03-02 Passed House (83-Y 16-N) passage
• 2022-03-02 VOTE: Passage (83-Y 16-N)
• 2022-03-07 Enrolled
• 2022-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB211ER)
• 2022-03-08 Signed by President
• 2022-03-08 Signed by Speaker
• 2022-03-09 Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
• 2022-03-09 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
• 2022-03-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 28 (effective 7/1/22) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c012bd24-23e5-417f-8a26-1bd3f2516cea. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).