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type: "Bill"
title: "Voter registration; list of decedent transmitted by St. Reg. of Vital Records to Dept. of Elections."
description: "Voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previous week. Currently, this list is transmitted monthly. The bill requires the general registrars to use this information to conduct list maintenance and to promptly cancel the registration of a person on the list. This bill is identical to HB 55."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 211"
citation: "Virginia SB 211 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer A. Kiggans"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2022-01-10"
last_action: "2022-03-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c012bd24-23e5-417f-8a26-1bd3f2516cea"
source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+sum+SB211"
source_hash: "10f3b6200c99084ab7d2f7f2d4037ef1c34ef68a39b8c486f866766d7e6edbe5"
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 211 (2022) — Voter registration; list of decedent transmitted by St. Reg. of Vital Records to Dept. of Elections.
Voter registration; list maintenance; lists of decedents transmitted by State Registrar of Vital Records. Requires the State Registrar of Vital Records to transmit to the Department of Elections a weekly list of decedents from the previous week. Currently, this list is transmitted monthly. The bill requires the general registrars to use this information to conduct list maintenance and to promptly cancel the registration of a person on the list. This bill is identical to HB 55.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **CHAP0028** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+CHAP0028)
2. **Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100127D** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB211)
3. **Printed as engrossed 22100127D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB211E)
4. **SB211ER** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?221+ful+SB211ER)
## Votes
- Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) — **328** (pass) · upper
- Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N) — **390** (pass) · upper
- Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (12-Y 3-N) — **123** (pass) · upper
- VOTE: Passage (83-Y 16-N) — **8216** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (20-Y 1-N) — **201** (pass) · lower
- Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) — **132** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Jennifer A. Kiggans — primary (person)
- David R. Suetterlein — cosponsor (person)
- Lionell Spruill, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100127D `introduction`
- **2022-01-10** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-17** Impact statement from DPB (SB211)
- **2022-01-18** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-18** Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (12-Y 3-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-18** Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-20** Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- **2022-01-26** Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N) `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- **2022-01-28** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-28** Reading of amendment waived
- **2022-01-28** Committee amendment agreed to
- **2022-01-28** Engrossed by Senate as amended SB211E
- **2022-01-28** Printed as engrossed 22100127D-E
- **2022-01-31** Read third time and passed Senate (32-Y 8-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** Impact statement from DPB (SB211E)
- **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 (83-Y 16-N) `passage`
- **2022-03-02** VOTE: Passage (83-Y 16-N)
- **2022-03-07** Enrolled
- **2022-03-08** Impact statement from DPB (SB211ER)
- **2022-03-08** Signed by President
- **2022-03-08** Signed by Speaker
- **2022-03-09** Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on March 9, 2022
- **2022-03-09** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2022
- **2022-03-11** Approved by Governor-Chapter 28 (effective 7/1/22) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c012bd24-23e5-417f-8a26-1bd3f2516cea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).