| SJR522 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the UCI World Road Cycling Championship on the occasion of the 2015 Championship to be held in Richmond, Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-24
Senate: Stricken from Senate calendar by voice vote |
| SJR321 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw Congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR344 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); personal property tax exemption on boats and watercrafts. Allows the General Assembly to enact a general law allowing a locality to have the option to provide for a partial exemption for boats and watercra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
House: VOTE: REJECTED (19-Y 78-N) |
| SJR371 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); contributions to defined benefit retirement plans maintained for employees. Requires that contributions to defined benefit retirement plans that are maintained for state employees and employees of particip...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR300 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); electoral boards and general registrars. Permits the General Assembly to provide by law that two or more counties and cities may share one electoral board and general registrar if a majority of the voters ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR357 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. This joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remain...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SR29 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress regarding greenhouse gas emissions regulation. Urges the United States Congress to address the proposed regulations of the Environmental Protection Agency in regards to greenhouse gas emissions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR349 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; transfer on death deeds. Requests the Virginia Bar Association to study the merits of legislation authorizing transfer on death deeds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR294 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Commission on Health Care to study eating disorders in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study eating disorders in the Commonwealth. In conducting its study, the Joint Commission on Health Care shal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| SR28 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Congress of the United States to honor the natural right of an individual to privately exercise his or her own judgment free from coercion or intimidation when making decisions that affect his or her life, liberty and pursuit of hap...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR323 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to work. Provides that any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization shall be denied the right ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR346 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; recycling education in public schools; report. Requests the Department of Education to study recycling education in the public schools. In conducting its study, the Department of Education shall (i) evaluate the feasibility of requiring or pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR353 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR360 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR361 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); limitation on debt. Provides that in any ten fiscal year period beginning with fiscal years of the Commonwealth starting on or after July 1, 2012, no more than the amount computed by first multiplying each...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR280 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR301 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); the right to a secret ballot. Adds a provision to the Bill of Rights to preserve and protect the right to a secret ballot in elections for office, votes on ballot measures, and votes to designate or author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR307 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); taking of private property for public uses. Limits the exercise of eminent domain for the purpose of public use and specifies that, with the exception of property taken for public service corporations, pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
Senate: Motion to suspend the rules rejected (18-Y 22-N) |
| SJR401 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); sessions of the General Assembly. Provides that the General Assembly sessions convened in odd-numbered years shall be long sessions and sessions convened in even-numbered years shall be short sessions, rev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-08
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR399 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress to amend the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-191). Urges Congress to restore in loco parentis at institutions of higher...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR400 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Bureau of Financial Institutions to study development loan defaults; report. Requests the Bureau of Financial Institutions of the State Corporation Commission to convene members of the financial services, homebuilding, and commercial developm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-04
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR396 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); limitation on debt. Provides that in any 10-fiscal-year period beginning with fiscal years of the Commonwealth starting on or after July 1, 2012, no more than five percent of projected blended revenues app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-01
Senate: Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR359 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study method of selecting Auditor of Public Accounts; report. Establishes a five-member joint subcommittee to recommend the best method for selecting the Auditor of Public Accounts. This is a one-year study.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-28
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR306 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of civil rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of sentence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-01-25
Senate: Incorporated by Privileges and Elections (SJ284-Miller, Y.B.) (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); electoral boards and general registrars. Permits the General Assembly to provide by law that two or more counties and cities may share one electoral board and general registrar if a majority of the voters ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR24 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly powers; regulations. Provides that the General Assembly may suspend or nullify any or all portions of any administrative rule or regulation by joint resolution agreed to by a majority of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR25 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second resolution); property exempt from taxation. Authorizes the General Assembly to enact laws to permit localities to exempt from property taxes, any property, including real or personal property, equipment, facilities, o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR27 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); taking of private property for public uses. Limits the exercise of eminent domain for the purpose of public use and specifies that, with the exception of property taken for public service corporations, pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR52 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; SCC; management of continuing care retirement communities and the need for resident representation in management and governance; report. Requests the State Corporation Commission to study the management of continuing care retirement communiti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed service of their sentences...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR68 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; voter registration and election system. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the structure and operation of the registration and election processes. The joint subcommittee is to examine (i) measures that might be necessary or desirable in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR69 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property taxes; relief for certain businesses. Allows the General Assembly to authorize localities to exempt in whole or in part from property taxes (i) the property of a business that is new to the Common...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR88 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study local government reorganization; report. Establishes a nine-member joint subcommittee to recommend methods for modernizing local government structure and organization, including the potential benefits of regional so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR92 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional Amendment (first resolution); conference committee report for general appropriation bills. Provides that if no conference committee report for the general appropriation bill is agreed to by April 1 in an odd-numbered year or by May 1 i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR100 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR137 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR95 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property exempt from taxation. Amends the Constitution of Virginia to allow the General Assembly to authorize localities to exempt or partially exempt from taxation forest harvesting and silvicultural acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR145 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Appalachian Power; report. Directs the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to study alternatives to the monopoly service provided by Appalachian Power, which is the existing investor-owned electric utility serving portions of Southwest a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
