HB 630 — Elections; ranked choice voting, locally elected offices, report.
VA 20261 session
Elections; conduct of election; ranked choice voting; locally elected offices; report. Expands the option to use ranked choice voting from only elections for county board of supervisors and city councils to any local governing body. The bill requires the State Board of Elections to provide standards and to approve vote tabulating software for use with existing voting systems in elections conducted by ranked choice voting. The bill provides for copying damaged or defective ballots that cannot be properly counted by electronic voting systems. The bill allows localities to request risk-limiting audits of elections conducted using ranked choice voting and provides that no such election may be included in any random drawing required to satisfy the general requirements for risk-limiting audits. The bill specifies that the State Board is required to produce generalized voter education materials on ranked choice voting and is also permitted to create and modify recount procedures to the extent necessary to accommodate a recount of an election. The bill directs the Department of Elections to review the testing and approval framework for voting equipment in the Commonwealth and submit a report of such review no later than the first day of the 2027 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Finally, the bill repeals the 2031 expiration of the option to use ranked choice voting in elections, making such option permanent. This bill is identical to SB 176.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (22)
- Katrina Callsen (D, VA) — sponsor
- Patrick A. Hope (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Adele Y. McClure (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jessica L. Anderson (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Bonita G. Anthony (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nadarius E. Clark (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Laura Jane Cohen (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Joshua G. Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rae Cousins (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Lindsey Dougherty (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Mark C. Downey (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jackie H. Glass (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Phil M. Hernandez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Marty Martinez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- John Chilton McAuliff (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Sam Rasoul (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Irene Shin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Shelly A. Simonds (D, VA) — cosponsor
- JJ Singh (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kathy K.L. Tran (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (42)
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Who matters on this bill
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Katrina Callsen (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Adele Y. McClure (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Bonita G. Anthony (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Irene Shin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | JJ Singh (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Jackie H. Glass (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Jessica L. Anderson (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | John Chilton McAuliff (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Joshua G. Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Laura Jane Cohen (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Lindsey Dougherty (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Mark C. Downey (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Marty Martinez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 16 | Nadarius E. Clark (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 17 | Patrick A. Hope (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 18 | Phil M. Hernandez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 19 | Rae Cousins (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 20 | Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 21 | Sam Rasoul (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 22 | Shelly A. Simonds (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Stance (positions taken)
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no