Virginia Senate Bill 785 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: Engrossed on January 29 2015 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-24 - Left in General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Nondiscrimination in public employment. Prohibits discrimination in public employment based on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, as defined in the bill. The bill also codifies for state and local government employment the current prohibitions on discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, age, marital status, disability, or status as a special disabled veteran or other veteran.

Public employment; prohibits discrimination based on basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Sen. Kenneth Alexander [D]	Sen. Rosalyn Dance [D]	Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]	Sen. Lynwood Lewis [D]
Sen. George Barker [D]	Sen. Charles Colgan [D]	Sen. John Edwards [D]	Sen. Janet Howell [D]
Sen. Mamie Locke [D]	Sen. Louise Lucas [D]	Sen. Donald McEachin [D]	Sen. John Miller [D]
Sen. Barbara Favola [D]	Sen. Jennifer Wexton [D]

2015-02-03 - Senate - Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (19-Y 19-N) (Y: 19 N: 19 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2015-01-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N) (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2015-01-26 - Senate - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (8-Y 7-N) (Y: 8 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-24	House	Left in General Laws
2015-02-12	House	Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely by voice vote
2015-02-11	House	Assigned GL sub: Subcommittee #4
2015-02-06	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2015-02-06	House	Read first time
2015-02-06	House	Placed on Calendar
2015-02-03	Senate	Chair votes yes
2015-02-03	Senate	Read third time and passed Senate (19-Y 19-N)
2015-02-02	Senate	Passed by for the day
2015-01-30	Senate	Passed by for the day
2015-01-29	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB785S1
2015-01-29	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 15104375D-S1
2015-01-29	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2015-01-29	Senate	Read second time
2015-01-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (38-Y 0-N)
2015-01-27	Senate	Incorporates SB1181
2015-01-26	Senate	Committee substitute printed 15104375D-S1
2015-01-26	Senate	Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (8-Y 7-N)
2014-12-31	Senate	Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2014-12-31	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15103001D

SB1181 (Similar To) 2015-01-19 - Incorporated by General Laws and Technology

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
15	2	1500.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	1507	(n/a)	See Bill Text
15	2	1604	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	2901.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
2	2	3004	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	295.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text
22	1	306	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+sum+SB785
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB785+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+ful+SB785S1+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+S12V0025+SB0785
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0150SB0785+SB0785
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?151+vot+SV0207SB0785+SB0785