republic-os/legislation/us/states/va/2026/hb-1150.md

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Bill	Impersonating any local, town, city, or county elected official; penalty.	Impersonating any local, town, city, or county elected official; penalty. Prohibits any person from willfully and intentionally (i) falsely assuming or exercising the functions, powers, duties, and privileges incident to the office of any local, town, city, or county elected official; (ii) falsely assuming or pretending to be any such elected official with intent to defraud or obtain access, information, service, or thing of value; or (iii) impersonating any such elected official with the intent to make another believe he is such elected official with intent to defraud or obtain access, information, service, or thing of value. A violation of such prohibition is a Class 3 misdemeanor.	us/states/va	Virginia General Assembly	2026	HB 1150	Virginia HB 1150 (2026)	bill		enacted	M. Keith Hodges	6	36	8	2026-01-14	2026-04-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a0f15404-4158-4167-b722-d71f1fe9b314	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1150	ed4013b4d43dc3451412d696fd3adb67bc478504d717b9d9ee9d25ad8b854345	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-va

Virginia HB 1150 (2026) — Impersonating any local, town, city, or county elected official; penalty.

Impersonating any local, town, city, or county elected official; penalty. Prohibits any person from willfully and intentionally (i) falsely assuming or exercising the functions, powers, duties, and privileges incident to the office of any local, town, city, or county elected official; (ii) falsely assuming or pretending to be any such elected official with intent to defraud or obtain access, information, service, or thing of value; or (iii) impersonating any such elected official with the intent to make another believe he is such elected official with intent to defraud or obtain access, information, service, or thing of value. A violation of such prohibition is a Class 3 misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. Courts of Justice Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Privileges and Elections Substitute (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Amendments (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — 15–0 (pass) · upper
• Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• H VOTE: — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute — 21–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage R — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• H VOTE: — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Rereferred from Privileges and Elections — 14–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-14 Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26105074D filing, introduction
• 2026-01-14 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2026-01-17 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1150)
• 2026-01-25 Assigned HPE sub: Campaigns and Candidates referral-committee
• 2026-02-03 House subcommittee offered
• 2026-02-03 Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) substitution
• 2026-02-06 House committee offered
• 2026-02-13 Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (21-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-02-13 Committee substitute printed 26107151D-H1 substitution
• 2026-02-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1150)
• 2026-02-15 Read first time reading-1
• 2026-02-16 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-16 committee substitute agreed to substitution
• 2026-02-16 Engrossed by House - committee substitute substitution
• 2026-02-17 Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-18 Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
• 2026-02-18 Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections referral-committee
• 2026-02-24 Rereferred from Privileges and Elections to Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) referral-committee
• 2026-03-02 Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) committee-passage
• 2026-03-03 Rules suspended
• 2026-03-03 Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
• 2026-03-03 Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
• 2026-03-04 Read third time reading-3
• 2026-03-04 Courts of Justice Amendments agreed to amendment-passage
• 2026-03-04 Engrossed by Senate as amended
• 2026-03-04 Passed Senate with amendments Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) passage
• 2026-03-06 Senate amendments agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N 0-A) amendment-passage
• 2026-03-13 Enrolled enrolled
• 2026-03-13 Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1150ER) passage
• 2026-03-13 Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1150)
• 2026-03-13 Signed by Speaker passage
• 2026-03-13 Signed by President passage
• 2026-03-14 Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 enrolled, executive-receipt
• 2026-03-14 Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-04-08 Approved by Governor-Chapter 452 (effective 7/1/2026) executive-signature
• 2026-04-08 Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452)

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a0f15404-4158-4167-b722-d71f1fe9b314. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).