Cat	Number	Title	Patron	House	Senate	Governor	updated
2025 Priority Bills Campaign Finance
campaign finance	HB 1575 Support	Campaign fundraising; legislative sessions; enforcement of civil penalty. more... Provides that violations of the prohibition on campaign fundraising during legislative sessions are to be reported to the Attorney General who shall initiate civil proceedings to enforce the civil penalty currently assessed for such violations....	Cherry(R)	Stricken Privileges & Elections Sub striking from the docket (8-0)			2/22/25
campaign finance	HB 1576 Support	Campaign fundraising; legislative sessions; enforcement of civil penalty. more... Provides that violations of the prohibition on campaign fundraising during legislative sessions are to be reported to the Attorney General, who shall initiate civil proceedings to enforce the civil penalty currently assessed for such violations. ...	Cherry(R)	Failed Privileges & Elections Subcommittee 3-Y, 5-N			2/22/25
campaign finance	HB 1686 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions more... Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use....	Convirs-Fowler(D)	Incorporated Privileges & Elections incorported into HB2165			2/22/25
campaign finance	HB 1744 Support	Candidates for office; persons entitled to have name printed on ballot; required campaign finance reports. more... Provides that a person who fails to file at least one of the campaign finance reports required by law to be filed in an election year by July 20 is not entitled to have his name printed on the ballot at the general election for the office sought.	Watts(D)	Passed Passed House 97-Y, 0-N	Failed Privileges and Elections FTR 7-Y, 8-N		2/22/25
campaign finance	HB 1761 Support	Public campaign financing; counties and cities may establish for certain offices. more... Authorizes the governing body of a county or city to establish by ordinance a system of public campaign financing for elected local offices....	Simon(D)	Passed Read third time and passed House (52-Y 45-N)	PBI Finance and Appropriations PBI (8-Y 7-N)		2/22/25
campaign finance	HB 2140 Support	Elections; campaign finance disclosure reports; searchable electronic database. more... Requires the Department of Elections to provide an interface for the campaign finance database maintained by the Department that allows users to easily search for and sort information by individual candidates and types of elections, offices, committees...	Krizek(D)	Passed Read third time and passed House (96-Y 0-N)	PBI Finance and Appropriations PBI (8-Y 6-N)		2/22/25
campaign finance	HB 2165 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. more... Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use...	Cole(D)	Passed Passed House 99-Y, 0-N	Passed Passed Senate 40-Y, 0-N	Approved Chapter 535 (Effective 07/01/26)	3/27/25
campaign finance	HB 2173 Support	Campaign finance; coordination and required independent expenditure committee disclosure; civil penalties more... Provides a more detailed definition of the term "coordinated" or "coordination" in the context of campaign finance than current law. ...	Clark(D)	Incorporated by Privileges and Elections comm (Voice Vote)			2/1/25
campaign finance	HB 2479 Support	Elections; political campaign advertisements; synthetic media; penalty. more... Prohibits electioneering communications containing synthetic media, as those terms are defined in the bill, from being published or broadcast without containing the following conspicuously displayed statement...	Sickles(D	Passed Senate substitute rejected by House (0-Y 96-N); House agreed to conference report 76-Y, 22-N	Passed Passed Senate with substitute (23-Y 13-N); Senate agreed to conference report 23-Y, 17-N	Vetoed	3/27/25
campaign finance	HB 2484 Support	Campaign finance; coordination and required independent expenditure committee disclosure; civil penalties. more... Provides a more detailed definition of the term "coordinated" or "coordination" in the context of campaign finance than current law....	Sickles(D)	Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (Voice Vote)			2/1/25
campaign finance	HB 2607 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates; Phase I more... 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. ...	Ware(R)	Failed Subcommittee motion not seconded			2/22/25
campaign finance	HB 2701 Support	Campaign finance; campaign contribution limits; civil penalty. more... 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 Senate of Virginia or $10,000 to any one candidate for the House of Delegates in any one election cycle. ...	Bulova(D)	Left Left in Privileges and Elections			2/22/25
campaign finance	HJ 444 Support	Study; JLARC; Virginia's campaign finance laws; independent agency; report. more... Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study Virginia's campaign finance laws....	Jones(D	Left Left in Rules			2/22/25
campaign finance	SB 775 Support	Elections; election offenses; dissemination of artificial audio or artificial visual media to influence an election; penalty. more... Provides that any person who knowingly disseminates artificial audio or artificial visual media, as defined in the bill, intended to influence a political campaign shall include a conspicuous statement at the beginning of such media that states: ...	Surovell(D)	Passed Passed House with substitute (72-Y 25-N 0-A);House agreed to conference report 71-Y, 26-N	Passed Passed Senate 23-Y, 17-N; Senate agreed to conference report 22-Y, 18-N	Vetoed	3/27/25
campaign finance	SB 906 Support	Campaign advertisements; independent expenditures; electioneering communications; disclaimer requirements. more... 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. ...	Stanley(R)		PBI Privileges & Elections PBI 10-Y, 5-0		2/22/25
campaign finance	SB 945 Support	Campaign finance; appeal of penalties. more... Provides for an appeal process for any person or committee assessed a civil penalty under the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006. ...	DeSteph (R)	Passed Passed House with substitute (97-Y 0-N 0-A)	Passed Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)	Approved Approved by Governor-Chapter 360 (Effective 07/01/25)	3/22/25
campaign finance	SB 1002 Support	Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. more... Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee for personal use. ...	Boysko(D)	Passed Passed House (97-Y 0-N 0-A)	Passed Passed Senate (36-Y 4-N)	Approved	3/27/25
campaign finance	SB 1050 Support	Campaign finance; contributions from corporations prohibited; civil penalty. more... Prohibits any corporation from making any contribution to any committee organized under the provisions of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act of 2006 and prohibits any such committee from soliciting or accepting any contribution from any corporation. ...	Roem(D)		Failed Senate failed to pass		2/22/25
campaign finance	SB 1185 Support	Campaign finance; coordination and required independent expenditure committee disclosure; civil penalties. more... Provides a more detailed definition of the term "coordinated" or "coordination" in the context of campaign finance than current law.	Carroll Foy (D)		Failed Left in Rules		2/22/25
campaign finance	SJ 255 Support	Study; JLARC; Virginia's campaign finance laws; independent agency; report. more... Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study Virginia's campaign finance laws. ...	Rouse(D)	PBI Passed by indefinitely in Rules (18-Y 0-N)	Passed (voice vote)		2/19/25

No. of bills: 20

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Conference Committee. A temporary committee w. members from both the House and Senate, tasked with reconciling differences in legislation that passed both chambers.

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Stricken. Legislation removed from a committee's docket, frequently at the request of the patron.

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