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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use, penalty. [HB-1459]
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Campaign finance; prohibited personal use; penalty. Prohibits the conversion of any contributed moneys, securities, or like intangible personal property by any person to the personal use of a candidate or a member of the candidate's immediate family, if such use is for a strictly personal purpose with no reasonable or foreseeable benefit to the candidate's campaign or public office. Complaints of alleged violations may be made by any person who contributes to the candidate or candidate's campaign committee to the State Board of Elections. The subject
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the use of a mobile phone by a person occupying a voting station. [SB-144]
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Relating to the use of a mobile phone by a person occupying a voting station.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to participation in the countywide polling place program. [HB-199]
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Relating to participation in the countywide polling place program.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to allowing a person who will be 18 years of age on the date of the general election for state and county officers to vote in the preceding primary elections. [HB-368]
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Relating to allowing a person who will be 18 years of age on the date of the general election for state and county officers to vote in the preceding primary elections.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Absentee voting; eligibility of certain caregivers. [SB-845]
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[Disabilities ]
[Healthcare ]
Absentee voting; eligibility of certain caregivers. Entitles a person to vote absentee if the person is unable to go in person to the polls on the day of the election because he is primarily and personally responsible for the care of an ill or disabled individual who is confined at home. Currently, such caregivers are entitled to vote absentee only if the ill or disabled individual who is confined at home is a family member of the caregiver.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Virginia Interim Redistricting Commission; criteria for remedial redistricting plans. [SB-846]
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Virginia Interim Redistricting Commission; criteria for remedial redistricting plans. Provides for the establishment of the Virginia Interim Redistricting Commission (Commission) when any congressional or state legislative district drawn as required by Article II, Section 6 of the Constitution of Virginia is declared unlawful or unconstitutional, in whole or in part, by order of any state or federal court. The Commission is tasked with determining and submitting to the General Assembly and the Governor a redistricting plan remedying such unlawful
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to early voting by mail by any qualified voter. [HB-163]
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Relating to early voting by mail by any qualified voter.
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West Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Allowing nonmembers of a political party to request that party’s partisan ballot at a primary election [HB-2320]
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The purpose of this bill is to require notification to voters at polling places in primary elections that they may request and use a ballot for one of the major political parties if the voter is not affiliated with any party or if the voter is registered with a party that does not have candidates on a ballot for that polling area. This codifies the process that has been in place allowing nonmembers of a political party to request that party’s partisan ballot at a primary election.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Virginia Redistricting Commission, criteria to redraw certain districts. [SJR-231]
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; criteria for legislative and congressional districts. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. The Commission is directed to certify district plans for the General Assembly within 30 days of receipt of the new census data or by June 1 of the year following the census, whichever occurs later, and for the House of Representatives within 60
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Absentee voting; no-excuse in-person available 21 days prior to election. [SB-844]
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Absentee voting; no-excuse in-person available 21 days prior to election. Allows for any registered voter to vote by absentee ballot in person in any election in which he is qualified to vote without providing a reason or making prior application for an absentee ballot. The bill makes absentee voting in person available beginning the twenty-first day prior to the election and ending at 5:00 p.m. on the Saturday immediately preceding the election. The bill retains the current provisions for voting an absentee ballot by mail, including the application
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the restoration of certain rights to a criminal defendant. [HB-152]
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Relating to the restoration of certain rights to a criminal defendant.
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Utah 2017 General Session
Political Contribution Reporting Amendments [HB-52]
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Political Contribution Reporting Amendments
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Campaign finance; permitted use of excess funds. [HB-1446]
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Campaign finance; permitted use of excess funds. Provides that contributions received by a candidate or his campaign committee that are in excess of the amount necessary to defray his campaign expenditures may be disposed of only by transferring for use in a succeeding election, returning to a contributor, donating to a charitable organization, contributing to another candidate, political committee, or political party committee, or defraying ordinary, nonreimbursed expenses related to the elective office. The bill also prohibits the conversion of
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to a voter education program for high school seniors. [HB-266]
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Relating to a voter education program for high school seniors.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the content of local and state propositions on the ballot. [HB-273]
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Relating to the content of local and state propositions on the ballot.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to erecting signs for a public election on certain rights-of-way. [HB-361]
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[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Relating to erecting signs for a public election on certain rights-of-way.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Electors for President and Vice President; allocation of electoral votes by congressional district. [SB-837]
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Electors for President and Vice President; allocation of electoral votes by congressional district. Revises the process by which the Commonwealth's electoral votes are allocated among the slates of presidential electors. The bill provides that a voter will vote for two electors for the Commonwealth at large and one elector for the congressional district in which he is qualified to vote. The candidates for President and Vice President receiving the highest number of votes cast statewide are allocated the two electoral votes for the Commonwealth at
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to certain restrictions on contributions and expenditures from political funds by a lobbyist; creating a criminal offense. [HB-371]
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Relating to certain restrictions on contributions and expenditures from political funds by a lobbyist; creating a criminal offense.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to eligibility to serve as an interpreter in an election. [SB-148]
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Relating to eligibility to serve as an interpreter in an election.
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Texas 85th Legislature Regular Session
Relating to the use of school district buildings as polling place locations. [HB-332]
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Relating to the use of school district buildings as polling place locations.