SB 350 Virginia 2027 session
Absentee voting; counting ballots prior to the close of polls.
Elections; absentee voting; counting ballots prior to the close of polls. Allows officers of election at a central absentee precinct to begin ascertaining and recording the number of votes cast by absentee ballots at any time after noon on the day of the election. Under current law, absentee ballots that are counted by hand may be tallied, but not counted, at any time after noon on the day of the election, and no ballot totals for any absentee ballots shall be ascertained until after polls close. The bill also clarifies that vote totals for absentee ballots cast in person on voting systems cannot be determined until the day of the election. The bill also requires that general registrars begin processing absentee ballots on the fourteenth day prior to the day of the election. Under current law such processing is not required until the seventh day prior to the day of the election.
Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Floor vote
- Passed
- Enacted
Passed one chamber — last recorded action July 21, 2026
Continued from last session
Passage likelihood
95% Higher than most bills at this stage
This is an estimate, not a guarantee. It is computed from the signals listed below and nothing else. It does not account for leadership priorities, floor scheduling, or negotiations that are not in the public record.
What the estimate is based on
- Historical base rate About 20% of introduced state bills are enacted.
- Current stage Passed one chamber.
- Cosponsors 2 cosponsors.
State-level impact
State-level impact data is not available for this bill. The source text does not contain a per-state funding formula or scored breakdown, so no figures are shown.
Official actions
- Continued from last session
- Continued to next session in Privileges and Elections (Voice Vote)
- House committee offered
- Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- Read first time
- Placed on Calendar
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB350)
- Read third time and passed Senate (23-Y 17-N 0-A)
- Engrossed by Senate (Voice Vote)
- Senator Roem Substitute agreed to
- Reading of substitute waived (Voice Vote)
- Floor offered Senator Roem Substitute
- Read second time
- Passed by for the day
- Read second time
- Passed by for the day
- Read second time
- Read second time
- Passed by for the day
- Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- Rules suspended
- Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB350)
- Reported from Privileges and Elections (9-Y 5-N)
- Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
- Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102138D