| SJR294 | Intro
Sine Die | Nonviolence. Encourages the public schools of Virginia to promote the ideals, heroes, and successes of nonviolence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR299 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study VDOT efficiency; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency of the Virginia Department of Transportation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR306 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study pilot program for improving third grade reading and math achievement; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to implement and study a two-year pilot program in selected public elementary schools to det...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR311 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; criminal history background checks and barrier crimes; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the Commonwealth's requirements related to criminal history background checks and barrier crimes and to make recommendations for changes t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR312 | Intro
Sine Die | Toll mitigation measures. Recognizes the need for mitigation measures for disadvantaged populations adversely affected by the imposition of tolls in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Incorporated by Rules (SR30-Lucas) by voice vote |
| SJR317 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; mitigation of the impact of tolls on Virginia's disadvantaged citizens; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study how Virginia can mitigate the impact of tolls on Virginia's disadvantaged citizens.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Incorporated by Rules (SR30-Lucas) by voice vote |
| SJR318 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee on state and local government; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study local and state government service responsibility and taxing authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR354 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognition of the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated. Recognizes the existence of United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR325 | Intro
Sine Die | United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. Memorializes the President of the United States and the United States Senate to not ratify the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR326 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognition of the Appalachian Cherokee Nation. Recognizes the existence of the Appalachian Cherokee Nation within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR331 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program; report. Directs the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to study the establishment of a mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program for the Commonwealth. The study will (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR338 | Intro
Sine Die | Environmental regulation; need for reducing burden of EPA regulations. Recognizes the need for regulatory agencies to use administrative discretion to reduce the burden placed upon the coal and electricity-generation industries by the regulations rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR366 | Intro
Sine Die | Area agencies on aging; Age Wave planning. Encourages the Virginia area agencies on aging and their public and private partners to conduct local and regional Age Wave planning in anticipation of the increasing numbers of older Virginians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR280 | Intro
Sine Die | Public education; problem of hunger in the classroom. Recognizes the need to tackle the problem of hunger in the classroom and requests the Superintendent of Public Instruction to communicate through a memorandum to all local school divisions the goa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR289 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee to study the scheduling of elections in Virginia; report. Establishes an eight-member joint committee to conduct a one-year study of the scheduling of elections in Virginia, evaluate the costs of annual statewide elections, and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR290 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study consolidation of law-enforcement agencies under the Virginia State Police; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study reorganizing all state law-enforcement agencies under the Virginia State Polic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-01
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR275 | 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] | 2013-02-01
Stricken from Senate calendar (36-Y 2-N) |
| SJR272 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax exemption for spouses of soldiers killed in action. Provides a real property tax exemption for the primary residence of surviving spouses of members of the military who are killed in acti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Finance with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SJR261 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); freedom of speech. Expands the freedom of speech provisions of the Constitution of Virginia to permit prayer and the recognition of religious beliefs, heritage, and traditions on public property, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-29
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SR33 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Rear Admiral DeWitt Leroy Freeman, USN (Ret.).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-29
Bill text as passed Senate (SR33ER) |
| SJR367 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); appointment of electoral boards and officers of election. Provides that appointments to local electoral boards and as officers of election shall be on a nonpartisan basis, eliminating current provisions fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (14-Y 0-N) |
| SJR292 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); selection and qualification of judges; pro tempore appointment by Governor. Prohibits the Governor from appointing any person to judicial office after such person failed in either the House of Delegates or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-29
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (6-Y 6-N 2-A) |
| SJR302 | 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] | 2013-01-28
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SJR293 | 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 are denied the right to wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-28
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SJR269 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Provides that no person convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote "unless he has served his full sentence and been released back to civil society." The proposed amendmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR321 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights. Provides for the automatic restoration of voting rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies (excepting felony drug and election fraud crimes) upon completion of senten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-22
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SR24 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Charles L. McGowan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR24ER) |
| SR22 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Staff Sergeant Guy Stanley Hagy, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-18
Bill text as passed Senate (SR22ER) |
| SR26 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR26ER) |
| SR27 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR27ER) |
| SR28 | Pass | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR28ER) |
| SR29 | Pass | Auditor of Public Accounts. Nominates person to be elected as the Auditor of Public Accounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-16
Bill text as passed Senate (SR29ER) |
| SJR332 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Chris Yung.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ332ER) |
| SR25 | Pass | Commending Tonya Mallory.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-15
Bill text as passed Senate (SR25ER) |
| SJR88 | 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] | 2013-01-15
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SR21 | Pass | Commending the 2013 inductees into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-01-11
Bill text as passed Senate (SR21ER) |
| SJR2 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR5 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR6 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency and effectiveness of the Composite Index of Local Abilit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR17 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR25 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR35 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR45 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; property tax relief for low-income property owners; report. Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study issues relating to property tax relief for low-income property owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR48 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; determination eligibility for disability claims under the Virginia Retirement System; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the system for determining eligibility for disability claims under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR57 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; property tax relief for low-income property owners; report. Requires the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study issues relating to property tax relief for low-income property owners.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR69 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; mandatory retirement of judges; report. Directs the State Crime Commission to study mandatory retirement of judges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR70 | 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-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR71 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Housing Commission; foreclosure procedures; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the foreclosure procedures of the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognition of the Appalachian Cherokee Nation. Recognizes the existence of Appalachian Cherokee Nation within the Commonwealth and grants the Appalachian Cherokee Nation, Incorporated, representation on the Virginia Council on Indians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
