2025 SESSION

INTRODUCED

25103884D

HOUSE BILL NO. 2607

Offered January 13, 2025

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 24.2-947.4:2, relating to campaign finance; prohibited contributions to candidates; Phase I Utility and Phase II Utility.

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Patron—Ware

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Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 24.2-947.4:2 as follows:

§ 24.2-947.4:2. Prohibited contributions to candidates; public utility.

No candidate, campaign committee, or political committee shall solicit or accept a contribution from any public utility, nor shall a public utility or political committee established by such public utility make any such contribution.

For the purposes of this section, "public utility" means any Phase I Utility or Phase II Utility as those terms are defined in subdivision A 1 of § 56-585.1 and includes any subsidiary or parent company of such a public utility.