republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2024/hb-943.md

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Bill	Voter registration; protected voter status, elections officials.	Voter registration; protected voter status;elections officials. Adds to the list of protected voters anyperson serving as a member of a local electoral board, a generalregistrar, a deputy registrar or employee in an office of a generalregistrar, or an officer of election. Protected voters are permittedby law to provide on the application for voter registration, inaddition to the voter's residence street address, a post office boxaddress located within the Commonwealth to be included on (i) listsof registered voters and persons who voted, (ii) voter registration records made available for public inspection, and (iii) lists ofabsentee voter applicants.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2024	HB 943	Virginia HB 943 (2024)	bill		enacted	Irene Shin	3	25	6	2024-01-09	2024-04-02	openstates	ocd-bill/70a75980-e5ca-4864-8720-6b9946dffa3b	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?241+sum+HB943	c6ef9a20f87d769e78766a3c480ab56a962edea43373ef2221866dee047902ba	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 943 (2024) — Voter registration; protected voter status, elections officials.

Voter registration; protected voter status;elections officials. Adds to the list of protected voters anyperson serving as a member of a local electoral board, a generalregistrar, a deputy registrar or employee in an office of a generalregistrar, or an officer of election. Protected voters are permittedby law to provide on the application for voter registration, inaddition to the voter's residence street address, a post office boxaddress located within the Commonwealth to be included on (i) listsof registered voters and persons who voted, (ii) voter registration records made available for public inspection, and (iii) lists ofabsentee voter applicants.

Version chain

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

1. CHAP0309 (committee substitute) — source
2. HB943ER (committee substitute) — source
3. Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100464D (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N) — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) — 22–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) — 15–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irene Shin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09 Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100464D filing, introduction
• 2024-01-09 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 Impact statement from DPB (HB943)
• 2024-01-26 Assigned P & E sub: Election Administration referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 Subcommittee recommends reporting (8-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-02 Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-06 Read first time reading-1
• 2024-02-07 Read second time and engrossed reading-2
• 2024-02-08 Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-08 VOTE: Block Vote Passage (98-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-09 Constitutional reading dispensed
• 2024-02-09 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 2024-02-23 Read third time reading-3
• 2024-02-23 Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) passage
• 2024-02-28 Enrolled enrolled
• 2024-02-28 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB943ER) passage
• 2024-02-28 Impact statement from DPB (HB943ER)
• 2024-02-28 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2024-03-02 Signed by President passage
• 2024-03-11 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2024-03-11 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-04-02 Approved by Governor-Chapter 309 (effective 7/1/24) executive-signature
• 2024-04-02 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0309)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/70a75980-e5ca-4864-8720-6b9946dffa3b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).