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VA HB 493

died on adjournment

Absentee voting; ballots received, marked, and cast electronically through the Internet.

Virginia · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Elections; absentee voting; accessibility; ballots received, marked, and cast electronically through the internet. Requires the Department of Elections to make available to all localities a tool to allow a voter with a visual impairment or print disability or a covered voter to receive, mark, and return his absentee ballot electronically through the internet. The bill makes the tool available through the internet in lieu of other currently available assistive technologies.

Introduced
2026-01-12
Status date
—
Latest action
2026-02-13 — Continued to next session in Privileges and Elections (Voice Vote)
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Patrick A. Hopeprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-01-12

    Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26104715D

    filing,introduction

  2. 2026-01-12

    Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-27

    Assigned HPE sub: Election Administration

    referral-committee

  4. 2026-01-27

    House subcommittee offered

  5. 2026-02-02

    Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB493)

  6. 2026-02-09

    Subcommittee recommends continuing to (Voice Vote)

  7. 2026-02-13

    Continued to next session in Privileges and Elections (Voice Vote)

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

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Official source

https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/HB493

Attribution

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