HB 1657 Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Voter registration; regular periodic review of registration records.

Summary
Voter registration, regular periodic review of registration records; 90-day quiet period before all primary and general elections. Requires the Department of Elections to complete not later than 90 days prior to the date of a primary or general election any program the purpose of which is to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the voter registration system. This restriction is not to be construed to preclude (i) the removal of names from the voter registration system at the request of the registrant or as provided by existing law by reason of criminal conviction or mental incapacity or the death of the registrant or (ii) the correction of registration records pursuant to existing law. Under current law, such restriction only applies to federal primaries and federal general elections. The bill also extends (a) the period of time registrars have to cancel registrations from 30 days to 60 days after notification of the need to cancel by the Department of Elections and (b) the period of time a registered voter has to respond to a notice of cancellation related to citizenship status from 14 days to 28 days. This bill is identical to SB 813.
Bill status vetoed 4 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
Vetoed
Apr 2025
Introduced Jan 3, 2025 Vetoed Apr 2, 2025
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Privileges and Elections Substitute Privileges and Elections Subcommittee Substitute · 1 edit
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Floor votes · Senate Feb 17, 2025 · House of Delegates Feb 4, 2025

How they voted

390
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 40
Feb 17, 2025
D Democratic21
21 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican19
18 Yea 1
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
34
Key actions
10
Committee
8
Apr 2, 2025
Vetoed
Requires 64 affirmative votes to override Governor's veto
lower
Apr 2, 2025
Vetoed
House sustained Governor's veto (50-Y 46-N)
lower
Mar 24, 2025
Vetoed
Vetoed by Governor
executive
Mar 10, 2025
Upper · Passed
Signed by President
upper
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Signed by Speaker
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Lower · Passed
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1657ER)
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
upper
Feb 17, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed by for the day
upper
Feb 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 4-N)
upper
Feb 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (8-Y 7-N)
upper
Feb 5, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
upper
Feb 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (53-Y 45-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Appropriations (13-Y 9-N)
lower
Jan 31, 2025
Committee
Assigned Approps sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
lower
Jan 31, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute and referred to Appropriations (13-Y 8-N)
lower
Jan 26, 2025
Committee
Assigned PE sub: Election Administration
lower
Jan 3, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
lower
1 primary · 19 co-sponsors

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