VirginiaCampaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.
What it does
Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions. Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or his campaign committee to 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.
More detail
The bill provides that a contribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if the contribution, in whole or in part, is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense that would exist irrespective of the person's seeking, holding, or maintaining public office but allows a contribution to be used for the ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holding elective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate's child care expenses that are incurred as a direct result of campaign activity. The bill provides that any person subject to the personal use ban may request an advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The bill directs the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar to those promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement the provisions of the bill and to publish an updated summary of Virginia campaign finance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General's guidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use of campaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board of Elections.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2024
- Nov 18Left in AppropriationsLatest
- Feb 28Continued to 2025 in Appropriations (Voice Vote)
- Feb 23Referred to Committee on AppropriationsMinor
- Vote recorded Reported without amendment. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 23Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N)Minor
- Feb 23House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Feb 22House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Feb 13Referred to Committee on Privileges and ElectionsMinor
- Feb 13Read first timeMinor
- Feb 13Placed on Calendar
- Feb 6Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N)Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Passage R. Result: pass.Upper
- Feb 5Engrossed by Senate
- Feb 5Committee amendments rejectedMinor
- Feb 5Read second timeMinor
- Feb 2Passed by for the day
- Feb 2Passed by temporarily
- Feb 1Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- Vote recorded Constitutional reading dispensed R. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 31Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)Minor
- Vote recorded Reported without amendment. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 29Impact statement from DPB (SB377)
- Jan 23Rereferred to Finance and AppropriationsMinor
- Vote recorded Reported with amendments. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 23Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendments (13-Y 1-N)Minor
- Jan 22Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Jan 22Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Jan 11Impact statement from VCSC (SB377)
- Jan 9Referred to Committee on Privileges and ElectionsMinor
- Jan 9Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104850DIntroduced