HB 967 — Voting Rights Act of Virginia; revises provisions.
VA 20261 session
Elections; Voting Rights Act of Virginia. Revises provisions of the Voting Rights Act of Virginia (the Act) by (i) clarifying the legal standards for evaluating claims of alleged voter suppression and vote dilution, (ii) providing guidance to the courts to follow when determining whether a violation of the prohibition against voter suppression or vote dilution has occurred, and (iii) outlining the factors that the courts are permitted to consider and those factors that the courts are prohibited from considering. The bill expands the class of persons who may initiate a cause of action for an alleged violation of the Act to include organizations whose membership includes members of a protected class, organizations whose mission would be frustrated by a violation of the Act, and organizations that would expend resources in order to fulfill their mission as a result of a violation of the Act. The population thresholds for a locality to be designated as a covered locality for purposes of minority language accessibility pursuant to the Act are also amended. Current law designates a locality as a covered locality if, in the locality, (a) more than five percent of the voting age population or (b) more than 10,000 of the voting age population are members of a single language minority and are unable to speak or understand English adequately enough to participate in the electoral process; the bill reduces those thresholds from five to three percent and from 10,000 to 5,000. The bill contains technical amendments for organizational purposes.
Latest action: — Acts of Assembly Chapter
Sponsors (30)
- Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, VA) — sponsor
- Bonita G. Anthony (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Betsy B. Carr (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nadarius E. Clark (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Joshua G. Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Nicole Cole (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rae Cousins (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Margaret A. Franklin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Debra D. Gardner (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Jackie H. Glass (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Dan I. Helmer (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rozia A. Henson, Jr. (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Patrick A. Hope (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Marty Martinez (D, VA) — cosponsor
- May Nivar (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kimberly Pope Adams (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Sam Rasoul (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Charlie Schmidt (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Irene Shin (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kathy K.L. Tran (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Rodney T. Willett (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Lashrecse D. Aird (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Saddam Azlan Salim (D, VA) — cosponsor
- Kannan Srinivasan (D, VA) — cosponsor
Action timeline (35)
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- · house · H5000 —
- · senate · S4140 —
- · senate · S0801 —
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- · senate · S4212 —
- · senate · S4602 —
- · senate · S5021 —
- · house · H5431 —
- · house · H5610 —
- · house · H5601 —
- · house · H5620 —
- · senate · S5620 —
- · house · H7010 —
- · G7010 —
- · house · H8500 —
- · G7050 —
- · G9998 —
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Bill text (extracted)
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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 | Marcia S. "Cia" Price (D, state_lower VA) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Betsy B. Carr (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 3 | Bonita G. Anthony (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 4 | Charlie Schmidt (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 5 | Dan I. Helmer (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 6 | Debra D. Gardner (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 7 | Destiny LeVere Bolling (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 8 | Elizabeth R. Guzman (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 9 | Irene Shin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 10 | Jackie H. Glass (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 11 | Joshua G. Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 12 | Kannan Srinivasan (D, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 13 | Karen Keys-Gamarra (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 14 | Karen R. "Kacey" Carnegie (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 15 | Kathy K.L. Tran (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 16 | Kelly K. Convirs-Fowler (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 17 | Kimberly Pope Adams (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 18 | Lashrecse D. Aird (D, state_upper VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 19 | Margaret A. Franklin (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 20 | Marty Martinez (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 21 | May Nivar (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 22 | Michelle Lopes Maldonado (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 23 | Nadarius E. Clark (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 24 | Nicole Cole (D, state_lower VA) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
| 25 | Patrick A. Hope (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