republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2022/sb-370.md

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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 HB 895.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2022	SB 370	Virginia SB 370 (2022)	bill		enacted	John J. Bell	4	30	6	2022-01-11	2022-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/73f761e0-9992-47ed-852f-8900b2be6d71	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB370	d3c6cb86697af32a6cb60afd7e066e350ca759aa58025c0c1d89d8d32b8cb253	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia SB 370 (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 HB 895.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0444 (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee substitute printed 22105850D-S1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104252D (committee substitute) — source
4. SB370ER (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (10-Y 5-N) — 10–5 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) — 16–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 1-N) — 20–1 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N) — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A) — 25–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• John J. Bell — primary (person)
• Jill Holtzman Vogel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-11 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104252D introduction
• 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2022-01-25 Impact statement from DPB (SB370)
• 2022-02-01 Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (10-Y 5-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-01 Committee substitute printed 22105850D-S1 substitution
• 2022-02-01 Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations referral-committee
• 2022-02-02 Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
• 2022-02-07 Impact statement from DPB (SB370S1)
• 2022-02-08 Reported from Finance and Appropriations (16-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2022-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
• 2022-02-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2022-02-10 Reading of substitute waived
• 2022-02-10 Committee substitute agreed to 22105850D-S1
• 2022-02-10 Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB370S1
• 2022-02-11 Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 14-N 1-A) passage, reading-3
• 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 (100-Y 0-N) passage
• 2022-03-02 VOTE: Passage (100-Y 0-N)
• 2022-03-07 Enrolled
• 2022-03-08 Impact statement from DPB (SB370ER)
• 2022-03-08 Signed by President
• 2022-03-08 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
• 2022-04-11 Approved by Governor-Chapter 444 (effective - see bill) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/73f761e0-9992-47ed-852f-8900b2be6d71. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).