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Virginia
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Ballot measure · CertifiedQuestion 1: Fundamental right to reproductive freedom
This would add a new state constitutional right to reproductive freedom. It would cover decisions about pregnancy-related care, including contraception, abortion, miscarriage management, prenatal care, childbirth, and postpartum care.
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Question 1: Fundamental right to reproductive freedom
This would add a new state constitutional right to reproductive freedom. It would cover decisions about pregnancy-related care, including contraception, abortion, miscarriage management, prenatal care, childbirth, and postpartum care.
Official ballot wording
Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to establish that every individual has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which means the right to make and effectuate one’s own decisions about all matters related to one’s pregnancy, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, abortion, miscarriage management, prenatal care, childbirth, and postpartum care?
A YES vote would add the proposed reproductive-freedom right to the Virginia Constitution, with the limits and exceptions described in the amendment.
A NO vote would not add the proposed reproductive-freedom right to the Virginia Constitution.
Financial impact
The official sources I found do not give a single statewide dollar estimate in the ballot text pages I reviewed. The legislative summary says the amendment was paired with follow-on bills and a ballot referendum for November 3, 2026.
Supporters’ strongest case
Supporters’ strongest official case is that the amendment would protect a fundamental right to make pregnancy-related medical decisions and would protect patients and medical professionals from punishment for those decisions, while still allowing some state regulation in the third trimester in the situations described in the amendment. The legislative summary says the law provides a referendum to approve or reject an amendment relating to the right to make one’s own decisions related to reproductive health care, including access to abortion, and says it protects patients and their doctors and nurses from being punished for making such decisions. The summary also says it allows the state to place restrictions on access to abortion during the third trimester except when the patient’s life or physical or mental health is at risk or the pregnancy cannot survive.
Opponents’ strongest case
Opponents’ strongest official case, from the text of the amendment itself, is that the proposal would create a new constitutional right and limit the Commonwealth’s ability to regulate pregnancy-related care except as allowed in the amendment’s own exceptions. That means a later legislature would have less room to change policy without another constitutional amendment.
Key facts
- The Virginia Department of Elections has an official proposed-constitutional-amendment page for the November 3, 2026 general election.
- The Division of Legislative Services summary says HB 781/SB 449 provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2026 election on reproductive freedom.
- The amendment language says the Commonwealth may regulate abortion care in the third trimester, but not in circumstances involving the patient’s life or physical or mental health, or when the fetus is not viable.
- The official legislative summary says the amendment would protect patients and medical professionals from punishment for those decisions.
- The official sources reviewed did not provide a separate statewide fiscal estimate for the ballot measure itself.
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OfficialVirginia Department of Elections: Proposed Amendment for April 2026 Special Election↗OfficialVirginia Division of Legislative Services, 2026 Session Summary↗OfficialVirginia Department of Elections: Upcoming Elections↗Ballot measure · CertifiedQuestion 2: Qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote
This would add a fundamental right to vote, restore voting rights automatically when a person is released from incarceration after a felony conviction, and change the mental-incompetency voting rule to a capacity-to-understand-the-act-of-voting standard.
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Question 2: Qualifications of voters; right to vote; persons not entitled to vote
This would add a fundamental right to vote, restore voting rights automatically when a person is released from incarceration after a felony conviction, and change the mental-incompetency voting rule to a capacity-to-understand-the-act-of-voting standard.
Official ballot wording
Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to (i) establish a fundamental right to vote in the Commonwealth, (ii) revise voter qualifications so that a person convicted of a felony is not entitled to vote during his period of incarceration but is automatically invested with the right to vote upon release from incarceration, and (iii) update the existing prohibition on voting by persons found mentally incompetent so that it instead applies to persons found to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting?
A YES vote would add the proposed voting-rights amendment to the Virginia Constitution.
A NO vote would leave the current constitutional rules in place.
Financial impact
The official legislative summary says the amendment was paired with follow-on bills that would take effect January 1, 2027, only if the constitutional amendments are approved at the November 3, 2026 general election. The official sources reviewed do not give a single statewide dollar estimate in the ballot text pages I reviewed.
Supporters’ strongest case
Supporters’ strongest official case is that the amendment would create a fundamental right to vote, automatically restore voting rights on release from incarceration, and update the mental-competency language to focus on whether a person can understand the act of voting. The legislative summary says SB 162/HB 964 provides that a person who loses political rights because of a felony conviction would regain those rights upon release from incarceration and would be entitled to register to vote. It also says the bill changes the mental-competency wording so that a person found to lack the capacity to understand voting would not be entitled to vote until that capacity is restored.
Opponents’ strongest case
Opponents’ strongest official case, from the amendment’s text, is that it would change the Constitution and automatically restore voting rights on release from incarceration, which would reduce the Commonwealth’s current discretion over how those rules work. It also would write a new fundamental-right-to-vote rule into the Constitution.
Key facts
- The Virginia Department of Elections page for Proposed Constitutional Amendment, Question 3, is an official state source for the November 3, 2026 general election ballot text.
- The official Department of Elections text asks whether the Constitution should be amended to create a fundamental right to vote, restore voting rights on release from incarceration, and update the mental-incompetency rule.
- The Division of Legislative Services summary says the law provides for a referendum at the November 3, 2026 general election on this amendment.
- The summary says the companion bill SB 162/HB 964 would become effective January 1, 2027 if the amendments are approved.
- The official sources reviewed did not provide a separate statewide fiscal estimate for the ballot measure itself.
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OfficialVirginia Department of Elections: Proposed Constitutional Amendment, Question 3↗OfficialVirginia Division of Legislative Services, 2026 Session Summary↗OfficialVirginia Department of Elections: Upcoming Elections↗Last checked September 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM. AI-drafted from official election sources. Always confirm your sample ballot with your state or local election office.