| SJR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Interstate conventions; selection of commissioners and committee procedures. Adopts procedures for selecting and replacing commissioners to represent the Virginia General Assembly at interstate conventions. The procedures clarify the scope of authori...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee; the future of public elementary and secondary education in the Commonwealth; report. Continues for one additional year the Joint Committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR65 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Corrections; solitary confinement; report. Requests the Department of Corrections, in consultation with the Department of Criminal Justice Services, to study the use of solitary confinement, including segregation and other forms ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR40 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; aviation and aerospace certification of teachers and curriculum; report. Establishes a 13-member joint committee of the Senate Committee on Education and Health and the House Committee on Education to study how Virginia can meet the future wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR57 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; balance billing by out-of-network health care providers; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study balance billing by out-of-network health care providers. The resolution directs JLARC to (i) exa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR41 | Intro
Sine Die | Airport development; environmental approvals. Encourages the Federal Aviation Administration to delegate to the Virginia Secretary of Transportation and the Virginia Department of Aviation the administration of environmental approvals needed to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR32 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Department of Transportation; feasibility of eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Charlottesville; report. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of an eastern bypass for U.S. Route 29 around Ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR11 | 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 pursuant to Article V of the United States Constitution for the purp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR14 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; alternative models of emergency custody and temporary detention; report. Directs the Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the Twenty-First Century to study alternative models of emergency custody and tempor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint committee to study the 2016 conditional rezoning proffer reform bill; report. Establishes a joint committee of the Senate Committee on Local Government and the House Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns to study the 2016 conditional r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Failed to report (defeated) in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR58 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; use and impact of law clerks on judicial workload and work product; report. Requests the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia to study the use and impact of law clerks on judicial workload and work product, includ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR26 | 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 pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States for t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR28 | 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 over the past five years in convictions for driving a m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| SJR16 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Indian Americans in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR59 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; identification of and interventions for dyslexia; report. Establishes a one-year joint subcommittee consisting of seven members of the House Committee on Education and six members of the Senate to study the identification of and interventions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Incorporated by Rules |
| SJR80 | Intro
Sine Die | World Hypnotism Day. Designates January 4, in 2019 and in each succeeding year, as World Hypnotism Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR56 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; costs of education; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the true cost of education in the Commonwealth and provide an accurate assessment of the costs to implement the Standards of Quality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR7 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; impact of state-owned ports on local governments; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review and update its 1999 study entitled "Review of the Impact of State-Owned Ports on Local Governments."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR54 | Intro
Sine Die | Study, Joint Commission on Health Care; access to Medicare supplement insurance policies for individuals under age 65; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study access to Medicare supplement insurance policies for individuals under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR55 | Intro
Sine Die | Working waterfronts in Virginia. Recognizing the importance of working waterfronts in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR15 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Pakistani Americans in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR33 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; VDOT; Route 60 Corridor; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to review and update its 1999 study entitled "Route 60 Corridor Study: Amherst, Nelson, Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland, and Powhatan Counties."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR73 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the anniversaries of the Hungarian Revolution and the establishment of the Third Republic of Hungary and recognizing the contributions of Hungarian Americans in the Commonwealth. Commemorates two key events in the history of modern Hung...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR6 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Education to study teacher licensing process; report. Requests to study the teacher licensure process and the assessment requirements therein for any inherent biases that may prevent minority teacher candidates from entering the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR30 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR52 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing need for four lanes of traffic on U.S. Route 220 through Botetourt and Alleghany Counties to connect Interstate 81 and Interstate 64. Expresses the support of the General Assembly in creating four lanes of traffic on U.S. Route 220 throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR29 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; costs of education; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the true cost of education in the Commonwealth and provide an accurate assessment of the costs to implement the Standards of Quality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SR8 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Green v. County School Board of New Kent County. The resolution is a recommendation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Stricken at request of Patron in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR49 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Commission on Health Care; rising health insurance premiums; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to identify options to address rising premiums for health benefit plans sold in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-09
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR35 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
Stricken at request of Patron in Finance (16-Y 0-N) |
| SJR69 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (second 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 ru...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections with letter (13-Y 0-N) |
| SR3 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the W.T Woodson High School boys' basketball team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken from Senate calendar |
| SR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Westfield High School field hockey team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-18
Stricken from Senate calendar |
| SJR51 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR9 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR39 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Literary Fund; proceeds from forfeited property for drug offenses distributed for the purpose of promoting law enforcement. Specifies that, regarding the current provision that proceeds from the sale of fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR68 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of Governor and Lieutenant Governor; residency requirement. Increases from five to eight the number of years a person must have been a resident of and registered voter in the Commonwealth in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR27 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualification of voters; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for any person who has been convicted of a felony not des...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR25 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR12 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR3 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR34 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR8 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR5 | 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] | 2018-01-16
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SR7 | Intro
Sine Die | 2018 Operating Resolution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
Agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) |
