We also work on the national level to promote an amendment to the U.S. Constitution allowing Congress and the states to regulate election spending. This action is needed to permanently reverse the damaging effects of forty years of Supreme Court rulings, including the 2010 Citizens United v. the FEC ruling, that equated money with free speech and that unleashed a torrent of money into our country's elections.
2023 Priority Bills
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Support campaign finance | SB 1427 | Campaign finance; political action committees; certain large pre-election expenditures.
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Requires in-state political action committees to file a report for any single expenditure of $1,000 or more made between October 1 and the date of the November general election. ...
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Passed | Passed | Signed | 8/31/23 |
Support campaign finance | SB 854 | Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; disclaimer requirements.
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Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and messages advocating for the passage or defeat of a referendum. ...
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PBI | Passed | 2/15/23 | |
Support campaign finance | SB 1053 | Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates
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Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility or any political committee established by such public utility from making any such contribution.
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PBI | Passed | 2/15/23 | |
Support campaign finance | SB 803 | Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty.
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Prohibits persons from making any single contribution, or any combination of contributions, that exceeds $20,000 to any one candidate for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or the General Assembly in any one election cycle. ...
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PBI | 1/18/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | SB 804 | Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates
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Prohibits candidates, campaign committees, and political committees from soliciting or accepting contributions from any public utility, as defined in the bill, and prohibits any public utility or any political committee established by such public utility from making any such contribution.
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PBI | 1/18/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | HB 1552 | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
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Restricts personal use of campaign contributions.
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Tabled | 2/1/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | HB 1648 | Contributions; prohibited from foreign-influenced corporations, required reports.
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Caps campaign finance donations/prohibits contributions from foreign-owned corporations.
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Left | 2/15/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | HR 242 | Elections; political independence of Virginians necessitates state control over election spending.
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Resolution supports a U.S. Constitutional amendment allowing Congress and the states to regulate election spending.
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Left | 2/8/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | HB 2281 | Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; powers and duties; complaints; penalties.
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Authorizes the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to investigate alleged violations of the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act and the General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act (the Acts). ...
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Left | 2/8/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | SB 946 | Campaign finance; fundraising during special sessions prohibited.
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Prohibits campaign fundraising on any day the General Assembly is scheduled to meet during a special session. Currently, campaign fundraising is prohibited only during regular sessions of the General Assembly.
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Left | 2/8/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | HB 1551 | 1551 Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures, electioneering communications, disclaimer.
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Broadens the scope of disclaimer requirements for campaign advertisements to include electioneering communications, as defined in the bill, and messages advocating for the passage or defeat of a referendum.
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Tabled | 2/1/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | HB 2286 | Elections; campaign finance; contribution limits; civil penalty.
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Establishes contribution limits from any individual to any candidate campaign committee, political action committee, and political party committee and from any political action committee or political party committee to any campaign committee. ...
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Tabled | 2/1/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | HB 1826 | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
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Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. ...
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Tabled | 2/1/23 | ||
Support campaign finance | SB 1471 | Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
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Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversion of contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at the dissolution of a campaign or political committee. ...
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Tabled | Passed | 2/15/23 |
Signed | Signed by Governor. |
Enrolled | Sent to the Governor, but not yet signed. |
Passed | Passed House or Senate. |
Comm | In Committee. Hover to see committee name. Click to see members. |
Read1/2/3 | Read in chamber. |
Reported | Approved by Comm. |
Recommends | Recommended by Subcommittee. |
Left | Left in committee. |
Incorp | Incorporated into another bill. |
PBI. | Passed by Indefinitely. |
Stricken | Bill withdrawn. |
Defeated. |