HB 774 — Elections; absentee and provisional ballots, cure process, delayed effective date.
VA 20261 session
Elections; absentee and provisional ballots; cure process. Requires that, if the electoral board determines that any person having submitted a provisional vote was not entitled to vote as a result of a material error or omission on the provisional ballot form, the registrar is required to promptly notify the voter by telephone or email of the error or omission and to provide information to the voter on how to correct the issue so his ballot may be counted. The voter is entitled to make such necessary corrections before noon on the Monday after the election. The bill 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. The bill also requries the Department of Elections to issue guidance to local election officials on the uniform processing and counting of provisional ballots, including any provisional ballot cast by a person submitting a registration application on the same day as the election. This bill has a delayed effective date of September 1, 2026.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (22)
- Virgil Thornton (D, VA) — sponsor
- Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Gretchen M. Bulova (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Katrina Callsen (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Stacey Annie Carroll (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nadarius E. Clark (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Laura Jane Cohen (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nicole Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rae Cousins (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Mark C. Downey (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Michael B. Feggans (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Margaret A. Franklin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Amy J. Laufer (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Marty Martinez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Leslie Chambers Mehta (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kimberly Pope Adams (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Irene Shin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kathy K.L. Tran (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (49)
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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 | Amy J. Laufer (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Elizabeth B. Bennett-Parker (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Gretchen M. Bulova (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Irene Shin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Katrina Callsen (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Kimberly Pope Adams (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Laura Jane Cohen (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Leslie Chambers Mehta (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Margaret A. Franklin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Mark C. Downey (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 16 | Marty Martinez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 17 | Michael B. Feggans (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 18 | Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 19 | Nadarius E. Clark (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 20 | Nicole Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 21 | Rae Cousins (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 22 | 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