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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1744: Candidates for office; persons entitled to have name printed on ballot; required campaign finance reports.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1744 is a bill introduced in the Virginia House on January 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Candidates for office; persons entitled to have name printed on ballot; required campaign finance reports. Primary sponsor: Vivian Watts (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (February 11, 2025): Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Candidates for office; persons entitled to have name printed on ballot; required campaign finance reports. 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.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Vivian WattsPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse14

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 8-N)
  2. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1744)
  3. Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
  4. Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
  5. Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
  6. Read second time and engrossed
  7. Passed by for the day
  8. Read first time
  9. Reported from Privileges and Elections (22-Y 0-N)
  10. Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
  11. Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25102676D

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source