| SR92 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Charles L. Moseley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SJR373 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Apheresis Associates of Northern Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SJR254 | Intro
Sine Die | Clean Water Act; opposition. Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to recognize the Commonwealth of Virginia's opposition to the proposed rule regarding the Clean Water Act definition of "waters of the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR286 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin Butler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR294 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of emissions from existing power plants; withdrawal of proposed federal guidelines. Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposed emissions guidelines for the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR227 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Congress of the United States to transfer the title of public lands to the western states. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that Congress should engage in good faith communication, cooperation, and consultation to coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR308 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of counsel to challenge federal rules establishing carbon emission guidelines for existing electric utility generating units. Requests the Joint Rules Committee to employ legal counsel to represent the Commonwealth in litigation challengin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR302 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); general warrants of search or seizure prohibited. Clarifies that the right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, businesses, lands, papers, and eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR290 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Expresses support for the establishment of the Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Hampton Roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR279 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee; dangers of Tannerite; report. Establishes a nine-member joint subcommittee to study the dangers of Tannerite and, if necessary, identify the potential need to (i) restrict the amounts of Tannerite that can be purchased lega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR240 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JCHC; older Virginians' access to oral health care; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study older Virginians' access to oral health care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR317 | Intro
Sine Die | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility; environmental impact statement. Encourages the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct an environmental impact study related to landing commercial booster rockets and spacecraft at NASA's Wallops Fligh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-06
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR298 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; partisan balance. Requires electoral districts to be drawn to reflect the voting patterns of the Commonwealth with, to the extent practicable, half of the districts more favorable than state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 3-N) |
| SJR293 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies who have completed service of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-03
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| SJR241 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; early childhood development programs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study specific early childhood development programs, prenatal to age five, in the Commonwealth in order for the General Assembly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-29
Incorporates SJ287 |
| SJR300 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Commission on Electric Utility Regulation; regulation of the rates of municipal electric utilities; report. Directs the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to study whether the State Corporation Commission should have the authority to re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR244 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; long-term impact of biosolids and industrial waste; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to study the long-term effects of the storage and land application of industrial wastes and sewage sludge on public health, residential...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR277 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; SCHEV; Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; report. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the feasibility of implementing a "Pay It Forward, Pay It Back" higher education tuition financing model to increase access to educ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR262 | Intro
Sine Die | Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization; signage. Encourages the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization to allocate funds to enhance interstate signage in the City of Hampton to increase awareness of landmarks and points of int...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR239 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; early childhood practitioner professional development; report. Requesting the Department of Education and the Department of Social Services in cooperation with the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation to convene a work group to study and develo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR283 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR213 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR276 | Intro
Sine Die | Opposing federal requirement of a law mandating a six-month driver's license suspension upon conviction of a drug offense. Expresses the opposition of the General Assembly to the enactment or enforcement of a law requiring a six-month revocation or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR234 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; purchase of the Dulles Greenway; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of purchasing the Dulles Greenway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR264 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to acquire farm-produced food. Provides that people have the right to acquire, for their own consumption, farm-produced food directly at the farm with agreement from the farmer who produced it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Stricken at request of Patron in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR282 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Sex Offender Registry; report. Requests the Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to study the effectiveness of sex offender registry requirements on public safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR287 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; early childhood development programs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study specific early childhood development programs, prenatal to age five, in the Commonwealth in order for the General Assembly ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR214 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 7-N) |
| SJR255 | 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] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR224 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; redistricting criteria and process. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission which will conduct the decennial reapportionment of the election districts for the H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR219 | 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] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR215 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor first elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-01-20
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; staffing Department of Corrections; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study staffing levels and employment conditions at the Department of Corrections. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR65 | 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] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR72 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study equity of transportation funding; report. Directs JLARC to review the equity of transportation funding in light of new revenues and because such a study has not been conducted in 30 years....
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR84 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing the training of nineteenth-century physicians in Richmond. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR1 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR74 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); nomination of candidates for elective office. Provides for the right of a political party to determine the method by which it nominates candidates for state, county, city, and district office, so long as t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SR38 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; safety of Route 13; report. Directs the Senate Committee on Local Government to study the safety of Route 13 in Northampton and Accomack Counties and to report on safety improvement recommendations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR80 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; brain injury services; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the progress made by the Commonwealth in expanding access to brain injury services. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR36 | 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 consolidation of all state law-enforcement agencies under the Virginia State P...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Advanced Composites Initiative. Encourages the development of the Advanced Composites Initiative at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's historic Langley Research Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR66 | 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 subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR30 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee to study options for reducing the number of Standards of Learning assessments; report. Establishes a joint committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to gather information and...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; construction of I-73; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to conduct a two-year study to promote the construction of I-73 in Virginia. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR56 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; Virginia Preschool Initiative; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study and identify policy and funding options to expand the Virginia Preschool Initiative. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Ses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR55 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; staffing Department of Corrections; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study staffing levels and employment conditions at the Department of Corrections. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR5 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage. Proposes the repeal of the constitutional amendment dealing with marriage that was approved by referendum at the November 2006 election. That amendment to the Bill of Rights (i) defines marriage ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2014-12-04
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
