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type: "Bill"
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title: "Impersonating any local, town, city, or county elected official; penalty."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
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legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "HB 1150"
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citation: "Virginia HB 1150 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["M. Keith Hodges"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 36
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2026-01-14"
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last_action: "2026-04-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0f15404-4158-4167-b722-d71f1fe9b314"
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source_url: "https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB1150"
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source_hash: "ed4013b4d43dc3451412d696fd3adb67bc478504d717b9d9ee9d25ad8b854345"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
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---
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# Virginia HB 1150 (2026) — Impersonating any local, town, city, or county elected official; penalty.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1088367.PDF)
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2. **Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1217858.PDF)
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3. **Courts of Justice Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1190926.HTML)
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4. **Privileges and Elections Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1145839.PDF)
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5. **Senate Amendments** (committee substitute) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1194506.HTML)
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6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://lis.blob.core.windows.net/files/1203624.PDF)
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## Votes
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- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — **15–0** (pass) · upper
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- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- H VOTE: — **96–0** (pass) · lower
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- Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute — **21–0** (pass) · lower
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- Passage R — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- H VOTE: — **95–0** (pass) · lower
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- Rereferred from Privileges and Elections — **14–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- M. Keith Hodges — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2026-01-14** Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26105074D `filing, introduction`
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- **2026-01-14** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
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- **2026-01-17** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1150)
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- **2026-01-25** Assigned HPE sub: Campaigns and Candidates `referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-03** House subcommittee offered
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- **2026-02-03** Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N) `substitution`
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- **2026-02-06** House committee offered
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- **2026-02-13** Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (21-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2026-02-13** Committee substitute printed 26107151D-H1 `substitution`
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- **2026-02-13** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1150)
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- **2026-02-15** Read first time `reading-1`
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- **2026-02-16** Read second time `reading-2`
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- **2026-02-16** committee substitute agreed to `substitution`
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- **2026-02-16** Engrossed by House - committee substitute `substitution`
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- **2026-02-17** Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage, reading-3`
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- **2026-02-18** Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
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- **2026-02-18** Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections `referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-24** Rereferred from Privileges and Elections to Courts of Justice (14-Y 0-N) `referral-committee`
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- **2026-03-02** Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (15-Y 0-N) `committee-passage`
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- **2026-03-03** Rules suspended
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- **2026-03-03** Constitutional reading dispensed Block Vote (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
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- **2026-03-03** Passed by for the day Block Vote (Voice Vote)
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- **2026-03-04** Read third time `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-04** Courts of Justice Amendments agreed to `amendment-passage`
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- **2026-03-04** Engrossed by Senate as amended
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- **2026-03-04** Passed Senate with amendments Block Vote (40-Y 0-N 0-A) `passage`
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- **2026-03-06** Senate amendments agreed to by House (95-Y 0-N 0-A) `amendment-passage`
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- **2026-03-13** Enrolled `enrolled`
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- **2026-03-13** Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1150ER) `passage`
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- **2026-03-13** Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1150)
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- **2026-03-13** Signed by Speaker `passage`
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- **2026-03-13** Signed by President `passage`
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- **2026-03-14** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026 `enrolled, executive-receipt`
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- **2026-03-14** Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026 `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-04-08** Approved by Governor-Chapter 452 (effective 7/1/2026) `executive-signature`
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- **2026-04-08** Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0452)
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0f15404-4158-4167-b722-d71f1fe9b314`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).
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