Virginia Senate Bill 1455 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-24 - Left in Appropriations
Pending: House Appropriations Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Commonwealth of Virginia Veterans Bond Act of 2015. Authorizes the issuance of Commonwealth of Virginia General Obligation Bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (b) of the Constitution of Virginia in an amount not exceeding $67 million, subject to approval by a majority of the qualified voters of the Commonwealth voting thereon at the November 3, 2015 general election. The purpose of the bonds is to provide funds for the Commonwealth's share of the costs for the construction of veterans care centers in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads. The full faith and credit of the Commonwealth is pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds and any bond anticipation notes or refunding bonds. The bill shall not become effective, and no bonds shall be issued, unless and until vote approval is obtained.

Commonwealth of Virginia Veterans Bond Act of 2015; created.

Sen. John Watkins [R]

2015-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-05 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-24	House	Left in Appropriations
2015-02-13	House	Assigned App. sub: General Government & Capital Outlay
2015-02-10	House	Referred to Committee on Appropriations
2015-02-10	House	Read first time
2015-02-10	House	Placed on Calendar
2015-02-06	Senate	Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)
2015-02-06	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-06	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1455S1
2015-02-06	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 15104640D-S1
2015-02-06	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2015-02-06	Senate	Read second time
2015-02-05	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-02-04	Senate	Committee substitute printed 15104640D-S1
2015-02-04	Senate	Reported from Finance with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2015-01-23	Senate	Referred to Committee on Finance
2015-01-23	Senate	Presented and ordered printed 15104193D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB1455
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1455+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB1455S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S05V0156+SB1455
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0281SB1455+SB1455
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0307SB1455+SB1455
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0308SB1455+SB1455