HB 40

  • Virginia House Bill
  • 2024 Regular Session
  • Introduced in House Dec 20, 2023
  • House
  • Senate
  • Governor

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaign funds, complaints, hearings, civil penalty.

Abstract

Campaign finance; prohibited personal use of campaignfunds; complaints, hearings, civil penalty, and advisory opinions.Prohibits any person from converting contributions to a candidate or hiscampaign committee to personal use. Current law only prohibits such conversionof contributions with regard to disbursement of surplus funds at thedissolution of a campaign or political committee. The bill provides that acontribution is considered to have been converted to personal use if thecontribution, 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 forthe ordinary and accepted expenses related to campaigning for or holdingelective office, including the use of campaign funds to pay for the candidate'schild 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 requestan advisory opinion from the State Board of Elections on such matters. The billdirects the State Board of Elections to adopt emergency regulations similar tothose promulgated by the Federal Election Commission to implement theprovisions of the bill and to publish an updated summary of Virginia campaignfinance law that reflects the State Board of Elections' and Attorney General'sguidance on the provisions of such law that prohibit the personal use ofcampaign funds and any new regulations promulgated by the State Board ofElections.

Bill Sponsors (35)

Votes


Actions


Feb 13, 2024

House

Left in Appropriations

Jan 30, 2024

House

Motion to refer to committee agreed to

House

Referred to Committee on Appropriations

Jan 26, 2024

House

Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment(s) (21-Y 0-N)

Jan 24, 2024

House

Fiscal impact review from JLARC (HB40)

Jan 23, 2024

House

Impact statement from DPB (HB40)

Jan 17, 2024

House

Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations

House

House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered

House

Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (8-Y 0-N)

Jan 16, 2024

House

Assigned P & E sub: Campaign Finance

Dec 21, 2023

House

Impact statement from VCSC (HB40)

Dec 20, 2023

House

Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100671D

House

Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

Bill Text

Bill Text Versions Format
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24100671D PDF HTML

Related Documents

Document Format
Fiscal Impact Statement: HB40F122.PDF PDF
Fiscal Impact Statement: HB40F160.PDF PDF
Amendment: HB40AH HTML

Sources

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