(CNN) Virginia's House of Delegates passed a bill on Tuesday that would award the state's electoral votes to the national winner of the presidential popular vote.

The measure, HB 177 , would look to incorporate Virginia into the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact , an agreement established by each participating state's laws to put its electoral votes toward the winner of the national popular vote, instead of the state's own popular vote.

"This idea that some American citizens should have more power than other American citizens to choose the president of the United States, I, frankly, find profoundly offensive," Del. Mark Levine, the sponsor of the bill, told CNN over the phone.

Levine noted that presidential candidates tend to campaign only in a handful of bellwether states rather than visiting all of them -- a strategy that tends to slight heavily Republican and Democratic states, whose votes are less likely to be up for grabs.

Levine hopes that such a bill will bring out voters who feel they are ignored in major election cycles and improve Election Day turnout.