Virginia House Bill 1547 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-3)
Status: Passed on March 3 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-03 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Historical African American cemeteries and graves. Directs the distribution of funds appropriated for such purpose to qualifying charitable organizations that preserve historical African American cemeteries established before 1900. The funding formula is $5, or the average actual cost of routine maintenance, multiplied by the number of graves, monuments, and markers of African Americans who lived at any time between 1800 and 1900 and are interred in the cemetery. The bill lists two cemeteries, East End Cemetery in Henrico County and Evergreen Cemetery in the City of Richmond, that are to receive any funds appropriated for a total of 6,975 gravesites.

Historical African American cemeteries/graves; disbursement of funds appropriated for preservation.

Del. Delores McQuinn [D]	Sen. Lashrecse Aird [D]	Sen. Lamont Bagby [D]	Del. Betsy Carr [D]
Del. Eileen Filler-Corn [D]	Del. Charniele Herring [D]	Del. Daun Hester [D]	Del. Matthew James [D]
Del. Mark Keam [D]	Del. Paul Krizek [D]	Del. Jackson Miller [R]	Del. Kathleen Murphy [D]
Del. Christopher Peace [R]	Del. Kenneth Plum [D]	Del. Marcia Price [D]	Del. Sam Rasoul [D]
Del. Richard Sullivan [D]	Del. Luke Torian [D]	Del. Jeion Ward [D]	Del. Lee Ware [R]

2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-16 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N) (Y: 97 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-03 - House - House: Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N) (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-02-01 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N) (Y: 7 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-25 - House - House: Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N) (Y: 22 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2017-01-18 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N) (Y: 9 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-03		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0270)
2017-03-03		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 270 (effective 7/1/17)
2017-02-21		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 27, 2017
2017-02-21	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/21/17
2017-02-21	Senate	Signed by President
2017-02-20	House	Signed by Speaker
2017-02-20	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1547ER)
2017-02-20	House	Enrolled
2017-02-16	Senate	Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2017-02-16	Senate	Read third time
2017-02-15	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2017-02-13	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology (14-Y 0-N)
2017-02-08	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2017-02-08	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2017-02-07	House	VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (97-Y 0-N)
2017-02-07	House	Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (97-Y 0-N)
2017-02-06	House	Read second time and engrossed
2017-02-04	House	Read first time
2017-02-03	House	Reported from Appropriations (20-Y 0-N)
2017-02-01	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
2017-01-25	House	Assigned App. sub: Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Technology
2017-01-25	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2017-01-25	House	Reported from Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources (22-Y 0-N)
2017-01-18	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting (9-Y 0-N)
2017-01-12	House	Assigned ACNR sub: Natural Resources
2016-12-29	House	Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
2016-12-29	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/17 17101511D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
10	1	2211.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	1505	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+sum+HB1547
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1547+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+HB1547ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+ful+CHAP0270+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H0102V0002+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H01V0026+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H0203V0007+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+H02V0049+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+HV1982+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+S12V0134+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0554HB1547+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0597HB1547+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0598HB1547+HB1547
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?171+vot+SV0599HB1547+HB1547