| SJR331 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Richard D. Pillow.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR291 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorative commission; State Capitol; statue of Booker T. Washington. Expresses the General Assembly's support for and calls upon the Governor to establish a commemorative commission to honor Booker T. Washington with a statue in the State Capitol...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR372 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the Nation of Greece.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR515 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); right of parents. Adds to the Constitution of Virginia the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. The amendment prohibits the Commonwealth from infring...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR545 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; insurance coverage for infertility treatment and fertility preservation; report. Directs the Health Insurance Reform Commission to study mandating insurance coverage for infertility treatment including in vitro fertilization and standard ferti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HR239 | Intro
Sine Die | Police; affirming support. Expresses the sense of the House of Delegates in affirming its support and appreciation for the service and sacrifice of law-enforcement officers in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR543 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Social Services; ways to increase participation in national service; report. Requests the Department of Social Services to study ways to increase participation in national service. In conducting its study, the Department of Socia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR618 | Intro
Sine Die | Denouncing racism and racist ideologies. Condemns all forms of racism, hate, bigotry, and discrimination, including physical or verbal attacks that target people on the basis of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR541 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Secretary of Commerce and Trade; effects of daylight saving time on the Commonwealth; report. Requests the Secretary of Commerce and Trade to study the effects of the Commonwealth's continued observance of daylight saving time under the federa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR524 | Intro
Sine Die | Abolition Day. Designating December 6, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Abolition Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR564 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; charges for the production of public records; report. Directs the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council (FOIA Council) to study whether the provisions of the Virginia Freedom of Info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HR237 | Intro
Sine Die | Condemning the Chinese Communist Party; COVID-19 pandemic. Expresses the sense of the House of Delegates in condemning the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR548 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); education; public schools; standards of quality. Provides that it is the responsibility of the Commonwealth, rather than the General Assembly, to provide for a system of free public elementary and secondary...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR514 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); special sessions; required in certain states of emergency. Requires the Governor to convene a special session whenever declaring a state of emergency for a period that exceeds 90 days or whenever extending ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR558 | Intro
Sine Die | Baccalaureate public institutions of higher education; student meal donation programs; report. Requests that each baccalaureate public institution of higher education in the Commonwealth establish a student meal donation program by which any enrolled...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR511 | Intro
Sine Die | Gospel Music Heritage Month. Designates September, in 2021, and in each succeeding year, as Gospel Music Heritage Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR560 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Secretary of Health and Human Resources; pharmaceutical distribution payment system; report. Requests the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group to examine the pharmaceutical distribution payment system in the Commonwe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR561 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; efficacy of the Commonwealth's occupational licensing laws; construction trades; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to (i) determine whether more requirements are necessary to ensure all workers in relevant crafts are licensed, (ii) dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR568 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; prevention of girls who are victims of violence from entering the juvenile justice system; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study methods and solutions to prevent girls who are victims of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR559 | Intro
Sine Die | Recognizing that global warming caused by human activity has resulted in a climate and ecological emergency. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly in recognizing that global warming caused by human activity that increases emissions of greenhous...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR556 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); environmental justice. Establishes that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to follow the principles of environmental justice in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR536 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; remote sales and use tax distribution to localities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the distribution of remote sales and use taxes to localities. JLARC shall determine whether current ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR529 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Labor and Industry; apprenticeship programs; report. Requests the Department of Labor and Industry to study the need for apprenticeship training programs in Virginia, including (i) the future workforce needs of the construction i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR577 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee; Study; joint subcommittee; oversight of Medicaid managed care organizations and provider networks in the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study oversight of Medicaid managed care organizations and p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR614 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); real property tax exemption; surviving spouses of service members who died while serving or from a service-connected injury or illness. Provides that the General Assembly may by general law exempt from taxa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HR227 | Intro
Sine Die | Racism; public health crisis. Recognizes that racism is a public health crisis in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR569 | Intro
Sine Die | Department of Forestry; stakeholder advisory group to study and evaluate enabling statutes for local ordinances related to the preservation, planting, and replacement of trees during the land development process; report. Requests the Department of Fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR616 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); real property tax exemption; affordable housing. Provides that the General Assembly may authorize a locality to fully or partially exempt affordable housing, as such term may be defined by statute, from loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR513 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); executive power; state of emergency; special session. Limits the authority of the Governor to issue an executive order declaring a state of emergency that restricts, limits, or prohibits otherwise lawful ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR523 | Intro
Sine Die | Voting Rights for Women Month. Designates November, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Voting Rights for Women Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR550 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; Glass-Steagall Act; infrastructure bank. Urges the Congress of the United States to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act and develop an infrastructure bank.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR566 | Intro
Sine Die | Republic of India; Citizenship Amendment Act. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to call on the Republic of India to repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act, to stop expansion of the National Register of Citizens, and to become a signatory t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HR225 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; H.R. 6422; National Infrastructure Bank. Urges the Congress of the United States to pass H.R. 6422 and create a National Infrastructure Bank to finance urgently needed infrastructure projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR552 | Intro
Sine Die | Study: joint subcommittee to study recurrent inland and urban flooding across the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a two-year joint subcommittee, consisting of eight legislative members and five nonlegislative citizen members, to study the developme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR626 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarence Clemons Day. Designates January 11, in 2022 and in each succeeding year, as Clarence Clemons Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR551 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); qualifications of voters; 16-year-olds permitted to vote. Provides that, notwithstanding the requirement that a voter shall be 18 years of age, any person who is 16 years of age or older and is otherwise qu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR607 | Intro
Sine Die | Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. Designates May, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR530 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; alternative approaches to the Commonwealth's enforcement scheme for the possession of controlled substances, including decriminalization; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the proprie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR516 | 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 that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR528 | Intro
Sine Die | Uyghur American Friendship Day. Designates November 12, in 2021 and in each succeeding year, as Uyghur American Friendship Day in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR531 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Commission on Health Care; advisability of the Commonwealth's joining the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the advisability of the Commonwealth's joining the Interstate Me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR573 | Intro
Sine Die | COVID-19 vaccination; voluntary. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that any vaccination for the COVID-19 virus shall be voluntary within the Commonwealth of Virginia and that it fully supports the practice of medical informed consent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-05
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR274 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); immunity of legislators. Limits the immunity of legislators by allowing the arrest of a member of the General Assembly during the sessions of the respective houses upon issuance of process for arrest by a j...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (9-Y 6-N) |
| HJR546 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); franchise and officers; felon disenfranchisement; automatic restoration of political rights. Provides that no person who has been convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote until the completion of his...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-03
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HJR539 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); marriage; repeal of same-sex marriage prohibition; recognition of same-sex marriages. Repeals the constitutional provision defining marriage as only a union between one man and one woman, as well as the rel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-03
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| HJR557 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); 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 a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-02-03
Incorporated by Privileges and Elections |
| SJR309 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); 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 conse...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-29
Passed by indefinitely in Rules (15-Y 0-N) |
| SJR297 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first reference); authority of General Assembly to exempt property owned by certain veterans' and service members' services organizations from taxation. Provides that the General Assembly may by general law exempt from taxat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-27
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (14-Y 2-N) |
| SJR317 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Walter Lowrie Martin III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-01-21
Passed by for the day |
| HJR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of voters; 16-year-olds permitted to vote. Provides that, notwithstanding the requirement that a voter shall be 18 years of age, any person who is 16 years of age or older and is otherwise q...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-12-04
To House Rules Committee |
