HB 773 — Elections; absentee voting, cure process, delayed effective date.
VA 20261 session
Elections; absentee voting; cure process. Removes the requirement that absentee ballots be received by the Friday immediately preceding the day of the election for the general registrar to implement the process of curing errors or failures in such absentee ballots. The bill also moves the deadline for curing errors or omissions in absentee ballot applications from noon on the third day after the election to noon on the Monday after the election. This bill has a delayed effective date of September 1, 2026.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (12)
- Virgil Thornton (D, VA) — sponsor
- Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Stacey Annie Carroll (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nicole Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Mark C. Downey (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Debra D. Gardner (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, VA) — cosponsor
- C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Charniele L. Herring (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jeion A. Ward (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (45)
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- · senate · S4140 —
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- · senate · S4602 —
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- · house · H5430 —
- · house · H5610 —
- · house · H5601 —
- · house · H8500 —
- · senate · S5620 —
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- · house · H7010 —
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- · house · H7300 —
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- · house · H5615 —
- · house · H5602 —
- · house · H5620 —
- · senate · S5620 —
- · G7050 —
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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 | Virgil Thornton (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | C.E. Cliff Hayes, Jr. (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Charniele L. Herring (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Debra D. Gardner (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Jeion A. Ward (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Mark C. Downey (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Nicole Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Stacey Annie Carroll (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