| HJR967 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Maria J. K. Everett.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| HJR981 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of William Henry Anderson, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| SJR388 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Kenneth Mason Easley, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HJR646 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable Johnny S. Joannou.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| HJR911 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Broad Run High School DECA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| HJR912 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Stone Bridge High School DECA.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| HR387 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Autry O. V. DeBusk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in House |
| SJR270 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Salem High School football team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR128 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Amherst Fire Department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-25
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SR139 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Mathomank Village Tribe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SR131 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Virginia Department of Forestry. Commends the Virginia Department of Forestry for its excellence in wildfire prevention and suppression. This bill is identical to SB 869.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR392 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR380 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Stefanie Fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-16
Stricken from Senate calendar |
| HJR694 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR635 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); top two primary election. Provides for a top two primary election for the nomination of candidates for the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General. All candidates for each office sha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR577 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax; assessed value. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize any locality to reduce the assessed value of real property, until the property is sold or the owner dies, whose fair mark...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR651 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Nonpartisan Redistricting Commission created. Provides for a temporary Virginia Nonpartisan Redistricting Commission (the Commission) to prepare redistricting plans in 2021 and each tenth year the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR706 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); tangible personal property tax; exemption. Provides that any locality may, by ordinance, exempt from taxation the first $5,000 of value of tangible personal property used in a business.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR581 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; criteria for electoral districts. Provides the criteria for electoral districts drawn by the General Assembly. The amendment directs that electoral districts are (i) to be composed of contig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR634 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); authority of elected school boards to impose taxes. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize any elected school board to impose real property taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR707 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor; 2018-2020 proposed budget; access to full array of programs, services, and benefits available under Medicaid. Encourages the Governor to include in his 2018-2020 proposed budget such language and amounts necessary to ensure access to the fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR696 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; certain prohibitions for electoral districts; scope of legislative privilege. Prohibits electoral districts from being drawn for the purpose of (i) favoring or disfavoring any political part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR542 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualification of voters and executive clemency. Provides that no person convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote unless his civil rights have been restored. The General Assembly shall prescribe by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR697 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); real property tax; exemption for surviving spouse of a disabled veteran. Provides that the real property tax exemption for the principal residence of the surviving spouse of a disabled military veteran app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR232 | 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 a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the United States C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR699 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR622 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR650 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR628 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR609 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualification of voters. Provides that the circuit courts are an "other appropriate authority" for purposes of who may restore the civil rights of a person convicted of a felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR312 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR641 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR540 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote. Removes the disqualification from voting of persons convicted of felonies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR543 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); failure to pass an appropriation act. Provides that if an appropriation act has not been adopted 30 days prior to the expiration of the current appropriation act, a joint session of the General Assembly sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR541 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); top two open primary election. Provides for a top two open primary election to be conducted to select the candidates for the offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or Attorney General, of the House ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR305 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending August Wallmeyer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR629 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority, subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR552 | 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 is re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR763 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; political considerations prohibited. Prohibits any electoral district from being drawn in order to favor or disfavor any political party, incumbent legislator, member of Congress, or other i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR764 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); enactment of laws at special sessions. Requires an affirmative vote of at least four-fifths of the members elected to each house in order to pass a bill at a special session that is convened after a genera...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR538 | 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] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR710 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor; enter into agreements regarding Medicaid services, benefits, and programs. Encourages the Governor to enter into an agreement with the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services to extend to all eligible residents of the Commonwealth the f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR749 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 of the United ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-08
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR587 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; prosecution of mother not allowed for self-abortion. Recognizes that Virginia law has never permitted the prosecution of the mother of an aborted child for performing an abortion on herself.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR589 | Intro
Sine Die | Unborn children; abortion law and personhood. Recognizes that Virginia law consistently acknowledged that an unborn child was a person prior to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade regardless of how abortion was punished under the law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR586 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; prosecution of mother not allowed. Recognizes that Virginia law has never permitted the prosecution of the mother of an aborted child for seeking or consenting to an abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR588 | Intro
Sine Die | Abortion; use of contraception not prosecuted. Recognizes that Virginia law has never permitted the prosecution of an individual for abortion for using legal contraception.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-07
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR299 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; DMV; funding and customer service; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to study its funding models to ensure continuing superior customer service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR233 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Department of Transportation; noise abatement remedies. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to develop, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, procedures to measure and assess the noise impact on neighb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR234 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study spay-neuter programs in the Commonwealth; report. Requests the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to study the availability and effectiveness of spay-neuter program...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2017-02-02
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
