HB 835 — Elections; candidates and elected officials, confidentiality of personally identifiable information.
VA 20261 session
Elections; candidates and elected officials; address confidentiality. Prohibits the custodian of any filing made by a candidate from releasing the address, phone number, or email address of such candidate in response to a request made under the Virginia Freedom of Information Act. The bill permits a candidate to provide the unique identifier assigned to him in the voter registration system pursuant to relevant law in place of his residence address on any candidate filing. The State Board of Elections is prohibited from requiring candidates to disclose their address or unique identifier on petitions prior to their being filed. The bill also adds elected officials to the list of people who may furnish, in addition to their residence street address, a post office box address located within the Commonwealth to be included in lieu of their street address on the lists of registered voters. The certificate of election delivered to the winner of an election is required to be accompanied by a notice that the person meets the qualifications for being granted protected voter status along with instructions for updating their voter registration in order to attain such status. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. This bill is identical to SB 632.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (15)
- Adele Y. McClure (D, VA) — sponsor
- Bonita G. Anthony (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Phil M. Hernandez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Marty Martinez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Irene Shin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jessica L. Anderson (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Stacey Annie Carroll (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nadarius E. Clark (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Joshua G. Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jackie H. Glass (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kimberly Pope Adams (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (38)
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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 | Adele Y. McClure (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Bonita G. Anthony (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Irene Shin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Jackie H. Glass (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Jessica L. Anderson (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Joshua G. Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Kimberly Pope Adams (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Marty Martinez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Nadarius E. Clark (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Phil M. Hernandez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Stacey Annie Carroll (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
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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