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type: "Bill"
title: "Assistance for certain voters; curbside voting."
description: "Assistance for certain voters; curbside voting. Clarifies that any voter with a permanent physical disability, temporary physical disability, or injury is entitled to vote outside of thepolling place. The bill further provides that during a declared stateof emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat,any voter shall be entitled to vote outside of the polling place.The bill requires that the area designated for voting outside ofthe polling place be clearly marked and instructions on how the voteris to notify an officer of election of his request to vote outsideof the polling place be prominently displayed. The bill makes technical amendments for clarity and organizational purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 1921"
citation: "Virginia HB 1921 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Marcia S. \"Cia\" Price"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-01-10"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/06aab6a9-057a-4e77-967d-aac16d35d937"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+sum+HB1921"
source_hash: "c8667f32c635e44cdaea89c1b6fe8253674170ba33cdb34680d2c1ea6402baaa"
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 HB 1921 (2021) — Assistance for certain voters; curbside voting.
Assistance for certain voters; curbside voting. Clarifies that any voter with a permanent physical disability, temporary physical disability, or injury is entitled to vote outside of thepolling place. The bill further provides that during a declared stateof emergency related to a communicable disease of public health threat,any voter shall be entitled to vote outside of the polling place.The bill requires that the area designated for voting outside ofthe polling place be clearly marked and instructions on how the voteris to notify an officer of election of his request to vote outsideof the polling place be prominently displayed. The bill makes technical amendments for clarity and organizational purposes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0163** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+CHAP0163)
2. **HB1921ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1921ER)
3. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101908D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?212+ful+HB1921)
## Votes
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) — **220** (pass) · lower
- VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N) — **990** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) — **150** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N) — **60** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price — primary (person)
- Alfonso H. Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Angelia Williams Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Betsy B. Carr — cosponsor (person)
- Candi Mundon King — cosponsor (person)
- David A. Reid — cosponsor (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Delores L. McQuinn — cosponsor (person)
- Don L. Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Elizabeth R. Guzman — cosponsor (person)
- Hala S. Ayala — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffrey M. Bourne — cosponsor (person)
- Joshua G. Cole — cosponsor (person)
- Karrie K. Delaney — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
- Kaye Kory — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler — cosponsor (person)
- Lee J. Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Marcus B. Simon — cosponsor (person)
- Mark H. Levine — cosponsor (person)
- Mark L. Keam — cosponsor (person)
- Patrick A. Hope — cosponsor (person)
- Paul E. Krizek — cosponsor (person)
- Sam Rasoul — cosponsor (person)
- Vivian E. Watts — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy W. Gooditis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/21 21101908D `introduction`
- **2021-01-10** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-14** Assigned P & E sub: Election Administration `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-15** Impact statement from DPB (HB1921)
- **2021-01-19** Subcommittee recommends reporting (6-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-20** Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-21** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2021-01-22** Read second time and engrossed `reading-2`
- **2021-01-25** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (100-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-25** VOTE: Block Vote Passage (100-Y 0-N)
- **2021-01-26** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2021-01-26** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-05** Continued to 2021 Sp. Sess. 1 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-16** Reported from Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2021-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-19** Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) `passage`
- **2021-02-24** Enrolled
- **2021-02-24** Impact statement from DPB (HB1921ER)
- **2021-02-24** Signed by President
- **2021-02-25** Signed by Speaker
- **2021-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2021
- **2021-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 31, 2021
- **2021-03-18** Approved by Governor-Chapter 163 (effective 7/1/21) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/06aab6a9-057a-4e77-967d-aac16d35d937`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).