Jennifer Boysko
- Democratic
- Senator
- District 38
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. 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.
Continued to 2025 in Appropriations
Referred to Committee on Appropriations
Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N)
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
Placed on Calendar
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
Read first time
Read third time and passed Senate (35-Y 4-N)
Read second time
Committee amendments rejected
Engrossed by Senate
Passed by for the day
Passed by temporarily
Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
Impact statement from DPB (SB377)
Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendments (13-Y 1-N)
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
Impact statement from VCSC (SB377)
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104850D
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Fiscal Impact Statement: SB377F122.PDF | |
Fiscal Impact Statement: SB377F160.PDF | |
Amendment: SB377ASR | HTML |
Amendment: SB377AS | HTML |
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