Elections; campaign finance disclosure reports, searchable electronic database.
Summary
Elections; campaign finance disclosure reports; searchable electronic database. Requires the Department of Elections to provide an interface for the campaign finance database maintained by the Department that allows users to easily search for and sort information by individual candidates and types of elections, offices, committees, other spenders, and contributors; contributions, receipts, disbursements, expenditures, loans, and other categories of information included in campaign finance reports; and late filings, incomplete filings, and other violations. The bill specifies that the interface shall also provide users tools for manipulating and exporting data. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2026.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Jan 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 7, 2025
Last action Feb 17, 2025
Floor votes · House of Delegates Jan 30, 2025
How they voted
96–0
Passed · 4 other
Total votes 100
Jan 30, 2025
D
Democratic51
98% Yea
R
Republican49
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
13
Key actions
3
Committee
6
Feb 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
upper
Jan 31, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
upper
Jan 30, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported from Privileges and Elections (21-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 22, 2025
Committee
Subcommittee recommends reporting and referred to Appropriations (8-Y 0-N)
lower
Jan 21, 2025
Committee
Assigned PE sub: Campaign Finance
lower
Jan 7, 2025
Committee
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Paul Krizek
DDemocratic
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