| SJR281 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; long-term economic viability of working waterfronts; report. Requests the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to study the long-term economic viability of working waterfronts, including a projection of the economic viability of preservin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR829 | Pass | Commending the James Madison University football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ829ER) |
| SR122 | Pass | Commending Raleigh H. Isaacs, Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Bill text as passed Senate (SR122ER) |
| SJR291 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; decrease in driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated convictions; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the causes of the decrease in convictions for driving a motor vehicle while intoxi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR247 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to review total compensation to employees of the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Legislative and Audit Review Commission to study the total value of all forms of compensation provided to state employees, including cash compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR254 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; applied baccalaureate degrees at comprehensive community colleges; report. Requests that the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia study the feasibility and benefits of comprehensive com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR274 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; Department of Elections; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the Department of Elections. In conducting its study, JLARC is directed to (i) review the Department's operations and expenditur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR263 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging the Governor and all agencies of the Commonwealth to recognize best practices to reduce the negative consequences of adverse childhood experiences in developing policies of the Commonwealth. Encourages the Governor and all agencies of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR255 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the feasibility and costs of establishing a comprehensive indigent defense system at the appellate level in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR292 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; SCHEV; financial reserves; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the practice of maintaining financial reserves at baccalaureate public universities of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR321 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR242 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; free community college; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the feasibility of providing Virginians the opportunity to attend comprehensive community college without paying tuition or fees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR257 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Commission on Health Care to study options for increasing the use of telemental health services in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study options for increasing the use of telemental health service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR296 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Commission on Health Care; needs of older adults who are incarcerated or are being released from prison; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to (i) study the unique needs of older adults who are incarcerated within Virgin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR289 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council; local government officers and employees; report. Directs the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council to study the procedures for the filing and review of disclosure f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR248 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study feasibility of allocating a larger portion of Virginia Lottery prize money to localities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the feasibility of allocating a larger portion of Virgi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HR329 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Karen S. Whetzel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-01
Introduced bill reprinted 17103618D |
| SJR319 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of voters and the right to vote. Establishes that the sole qualifications to vote in the Commonwealth are United States citizenship, being at least 18 years of age, residency in the Commonwe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR280 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; political considerations prohibited. Prohibits electoral districts from being drawn for the purpose of favoring or disfavoring any political party, incumbent legislator or member of Congress...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR260 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR269 | 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] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR224 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (11-Y 3-N) |
| SJR243 | 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. The amendment retains the right...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR225 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (13-Y 1-N) |
| HJR705 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging localities to develop a more uniform and streamlined permitting process. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that localities be encouraged to develop a more uniform and streamlined permitting process. Such an effort would benefit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR253 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of voters and executive clemency. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the automatic restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have comple...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Privileges and Elections (7-Y 7-N) |
| SJR335 | Pass | Commending the Student Government Association of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ335ER) |
| SJR325 | Pass | Commending the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ325ER) |
| SJR272 | 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 any person who has been convicted of a felony not designated b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HJR652 | Intro
Sine Die | Encouraging the Governor to recognize best practices to reduce the negative consequences of adverse childhood experiences in developing policies of the Commonwealth. Encourages the Governor to recognize best practices to reduce the negative consequen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR222 | 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 nonviolent felonies who have completed se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HJR791 | Intro
Sine Die | Early childhood education. Recognizes the importance of early childhood brain development and the early childhood profession and recognizes and encourages, among other things, the ongoing efforts of the Virginia Department of Social Services, the Vir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR216 | 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] | 2017-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections with letter (8-Y 6-N) |
| SJR311 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); legislative review of administrative rules. Grants to the General Assembly the authority to review any administrative rule to ensure it is consistent with the legislative intent of the statute that the rul...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR227 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR226 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); registration of voters. Permits the General Assembly to provide by law for the use of a portion of an applicant's social security number on the voter registration application. Currently, an applicant must ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| SJR217 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (8-Y 6-N) |
| HJR712 | Intro
Sine Die | Supporting legislation regarding the Equal Rights Amendment. Expresses the General Assembly's support of legislation to remove the deadline for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. The resolution would be transmitted to the Virginia Congre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR551 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states; balancing the federal budget. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HR303 | Intro
Sine Die | Denouncing the intimidation of the Commonwealth's residents, affirming the commitment to diversity, and safeguarding the civil rights and dignity of all Virginians. Denounces the intimidation of Virginia's residents, affirms the state's commitment to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR230 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; criteria for legislative and congressional districts. Establishes the seven-member Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) to redraw congressional and General ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HJR701 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states; free and fair elections. Makes application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States Consti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR547 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states. Makes application to Congress to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the United States Constitution to restrain the abuse of power by the federal government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR220 | 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] | 2017-01-31
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HJR685 | Intro
Sine Die | Speaker of the House; legal counsel. Authorizes the Speaker of the House of Delegates to employ legal counsel to represent the General Assembly in instituting legal action against any federal authority if the federal authority unconstitutionally viol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR569 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognition as genocide; atrocities committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant against religious and ethnic minorities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR642 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; reinstatement of Glass-Steagall Act. Memorializes Congress to enact legislation reinstating the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that was in effect under the Glass-Steagall Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR686 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Congress of the United States to allow states and communities to expedite permitting for bridge safety. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly in urging the Congress of the United States to change its laws and impact associated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-31
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HR318 | Pass | Commending the Lebanon High School softball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
Bill text as passed House (HR318ER) |
| SJR337 | Pass | Celebrating the life of Colonel John Betts, USAF, Ret.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-01-30
Bill text as passed Senate and House (SJ337ER) |
