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type: "Bill"
title: "Voter registration; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC)."
description: "Voter registration; list maintenance; data sharing; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Requires the Commissioner of Elections to apply for, enter into, and maintain membership for the Commonwealth in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC)."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 57"
citation: "Virginia SB 57 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Schuyler T. VanValkenburg"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-12-01"
last_action: "2026-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e7f35178-df25-4b23-8377-b28560bc2949"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB57"
source_hash: "d4911ecb3db030990eddd4bd2901ca5055cc4dc7837099c17ffee0446f787f05"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia SB 57 (2026) — Voter registration; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).
Voter registration; list maintenance; data sharing; requiring membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC). Requires the Commissioner of Elections to apply for, enter into, and maintain membership for the Commonwealth in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1081771.PDF)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1181451.PDF)
## Votes
- Passage R — **2117** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Privileges and Elections — **87** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed R — **400** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations — **95** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Privileges and Elections — **147** (pass) · lower
- H VOTE: — **6434** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Schuyler T. VanValkenburg — primary (person)
- Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-12-01** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26100577D `filing, introduction`
- **2025-12-01** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB57)
- **2026-01-20** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB57)
- **2026-01-20** Reported from Privileges and Elections and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-27** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 5-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-28** Rules suspended
- **2026-01-28** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- **2026-01-28** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-28** Passed by for the day
- **2026-01-29** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-29** Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
- **2026-01-30** Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 17-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-04** Placed on Calendar
- **2026-02-04** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-04** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20** Reported from Privileges and Elections (14-Y 7-N) `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-24** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-25** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-25** Passed House (64-Y 34-N 0-A) `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Enrolled `enrolled`
- **2026-02-27** Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB57ER) `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by Speaker `passage`
- **2026-02-27** Signed by President `passage`
- **2026-03-02** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB57)
- **2026-03-10** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 10, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-10** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-04-13** Approved by Governor-Chapter 876 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e7f35178-df25-4b23-8377-b28560bc2949`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).