HB 68 Virginia House of Delegates · 2022 Regular Session

Voter registration; presumption of domicile, members of a uniformed service and others.

Summary
Voter registration; presumption of domicile;members of a uniformed service and others. Provides that a memberof a uniformed service who is on active duty with permanent ordersstationing him in the Commonwealth shall be presumed to have establisheddomicile for purposes of satisfying the residency requirements forvoter registration, if he has also established physical presenceand a place of abode in the Commonwealth, unless he expressly statesotherwise. The bill provides for the same presumption for his spouseand any dependent residing with him. The bill defines "uniformedservice," the same way the term is defined in the Uniform Militaryand Overseas Voter Act, as the (i) active and reserve componentsof the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of theUnited States; (ii) Merchant Marine, commissioned corps of the PublicHealth Service, or commissioned corps of the National Oceanic andAtmospheric Administration of the United States; or (iii) VirginiaNational Guard.
Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Mar 2022
House of Delegates Passage
Feb 2022
Senate Passage
Mar 2022
Governor
Introduced Jan 4, 2022 Last action Mar 12, 2022
Floor votes · Senate Mar 2, 2022 · House of Delegates Feb 15, 2022

How they voted

330
Passed
Total votes 33
Mar 2, 2022
D Democratic17
17 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican16
16 Yea
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
19
Key actions
6
Committee
6
Mar 4, 2022
Committee
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
upper
Mar 4, 2022
Upper · Passed
Motion to rerefer to committee agreed to (21-Y 18-N)
upper
Mar 3, 2022
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Mar 2, 2022
Senate · Passed
Senate Vote: pass (33-0)
senate
Mar 1, 2022
Upper · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections (10-Y 5-N)
upper
Feb 16, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
upper
Feb 15, 2022
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (97-Y 2-N)
lower
Feb 11, 2022
Lower · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 1-N)
lower
Jan 4, 2022
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
lower
Jan 4, 2022
Introduced
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101715D
lower
1 primary · 4 co-sponsors

Sponsors