Virginia Senate Joint Resolution 280 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on December 15 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-08 - Senate: Left in Privileges and Elections
Pending: Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

United States Constitution; amendment. Makes application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment that permits the repeal of any federal law or regulation by the vote of two-thirds of the state legislatures. The resolution states that the application would be revoked and withdrawn if the convention acts to amend the Constitution for any purpose other than an amendment to permit such repeal of a federal law or regulation.

U.S. Constitution; application to U.S. Congress to call convention to propose an amendment.

Sen. Ryan McDougle [R]

Sen. Frederick Quayle [R]

Sen. Jill Vogel [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-08		Senate: Left in Privileges and Elections
2011-01-14		Senate: Assigned to P&E sub: Constitutional Amendments, Reapportionment, Referenda
2010-12-15		Senate: Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2010-12-15		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/11 11102634D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+sum+SJ280
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+SJ280+hil