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SR15Intro

Sine Die
Celebrating the life of Kathleen Flanagan McManus.
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate
SR21Intro

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Commending Colonel Wesley L. Fox, USMC, Ret.
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate
SR24Intro

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Rules of the Senate; news media.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR184Intro

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Commending the Virginia Urological Society.
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2016-03-11
To Senate Rules Committee
SR19Intro

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Celebrating the life of Vincent Johns Thomas.
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate
SR79Intro

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Nominating a person to be elected as a justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate
SR17Intro

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Commending Frank Beamer.
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2016-03-11
Failed to pass in Senate
SJR42Intro

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United States Constitution; amendment. Makes application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution that pertains to the subject of balancing the feder...
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2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR121Intro

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Public charter schools.
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2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR94Intro

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Opposing federal requirement of a law mandating a six-month driver's license suspension upon conviction of a marijuana offense. Expresses the opposition of the General Assembly to the enactment or enforcement of a law requiring a six-month revocation...
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2016-02-17
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR24Intro

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Human trafficking of minors. Establishes a work group to study safe harbor policy for minor victims of human trafficking.
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2016-02-11
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote
SJR84Intro

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Study; Department of Rail and Public Transportation; improved transportation services; report. Requests that the Department of Rail and Public Transportation (the Department) evaluate the level of study necessary to identify and advance potential pub...
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2016-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR86Intro

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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...
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2016-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR38Intro

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Study; juvenile records; employment; report. Directs the Commission on Youth to study expungement of juvenile court records.
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2016-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote
SJR57Intro

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Study; joint subcommittee on the death penalty in Virginia; report. Establishes a seven-member legislative joint subcommittee to study the death penalty in Virginia. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall, among other things, (i) provi...
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2016-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote
SJR75Intro

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Study; Virginia Housing Commission; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the impact of a tenant's delinquency in paying separately metered utilities pursuant to a rental agreement on landlords in the Commonwealth.
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2016-02-05
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote
SJR107Intro

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Cross-jurisdictional transportation for persons with disabilities. Urges localities to make a collaborative effort to provide affordable cross-jurisdictional public transportation to persons with disabilities by modifying and expanding current transp...
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2016-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
SJR37Intro

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Resolution; encouraging employers in the Commonwealth to pay their employees a living wage. Encourages employers in the Commonwealth to pay their employees a living wage. The resolution notes that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has set up ...
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2016-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
SJR59Intro

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Study; JLARC; consolidation of law-enforcement agencies under the Department of State Police; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study consolidation of all state law-enforcement agencies under the Department of State...
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2016-02-05
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote
SJR81Intro

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Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; teacher salary compression; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study compression in the teacher salary scale in local school divisions, analyze the effect of comp...
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2016-02-05
To Senate Rules Committee
SJR120Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of Governor; residency requirement. Increases from five to eight the number of years a person must have been a resident of and a registered voter in the Commonwealth in order to be eligible ...
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2016-02-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR113Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three full terms (12 years) and members of the House of Delegates to six full terms (12 years). The limitations apply to service for both cons...
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2016-02-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR119Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. The Commissio...
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2016-02-02
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR60Intro

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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...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR32Intro

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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 ...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR7Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax exemption. Provides that the General Assembly may provide a local option for the real property tax exemption for the primary residence of any law-enforcement officer, firefighter, search ...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR9Intro

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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 ...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR68Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; partisan balance of districts. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission, an eight-member commission tasked with establishing the districts for the United States ...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR2Intro

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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 ...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR50Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2021 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR47Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); exemption from taxation of certain motor vehicles. Exempts privately owned motor vehicles used for nonbusiness purposes from property taxes.
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR12Intro

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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 nonviolent felonies who have completed se...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR11Intro

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United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains ...
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2016-01-19
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections
SJR4Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2021 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR34Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2021 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
SJR79Intro

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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. The Commissio...
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2016-01-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
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