Virginia House Bill 1256 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Failed on March 12 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-12 - Failed to pass in House
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Advisory Commission; standards and criteria. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Advisory Commission (the Commission), a statutory legislative commission tasked with proposing districts for the United States House of Representatives and for the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly that adhere to certain constitutional and statutory criteria and that will be submitted for consideration and adoption by the General Assembly. The Commission will consist of eight legislative commissioners and eight citizen commissioners. The legislative commissioners consist of four members of the Senate of Virginia and four members of the House of Delegates, with equal representation given to the political parties having the highest and next highest number of members in their respective houses. The citizen commissioners are chosen by a selection committee consisting of five retired judges of the circuit courts of Virginia, from lists submitted to the selection committee by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, the leader in the House of Delegates of the political party having the next highest number of members in the House of Delegates, the President pro tempore of the Senate of Virginia, and the leader in the Senate of the political party having the next highest number of members in the Senate. The bill contains eligibility requirements for the citizen commissioners, including restrictions on holding or having held partisan national or state public office. As part of the application process for service on the Commission, the Division of Legislative Services acts as a repository for applications submitted by interested persons and is tasked with screening out applicants who are ineligible or submit incomplete applications. The applications of the citizen candidates selected by political leadership and submitted for consideration to the selection committee are public records.

Virginia Redistricting Advisory Commission; established.

Del. Marcia Price [D]

Del. Joesph Lindsey [D]

Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]

Del. Vivian Watts [D]

2020-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Defeated by Senate (17-Y 23-N) (Y: 17 N: 23 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-03-04 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-02 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N) (Y: 14 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-25 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (12-Y 3-N) (Y: 12 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N) (Y: 54 N: 45 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 9-N) (Y: 12 N: 9 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-06 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-12	House	Failed to pass in House
2020-03-12	House	No further action taken
2020-03-05	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-03-05	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2020-03-05	Senate	Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-03-05	Senate	Defeated by Senate (17-Y 23-N)
2020-03-05	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2020-03-05	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2020-03-05	Senate	Amendment by Senator Bell agreed to
2020-03-05	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2020-03-05	Senate	Amendment #2 by Senator Morrissey agreed to
2020-03-05	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2020-03-05	Senate	Amendment #1 by Senator Morrissey agreed to
2020-03-05	Senate	Reading of amendment waived
2020-03-05	Senate	Substitute by Senator Barker agreed to 20109602D-S2
2020-03-05	Senate	Passed by temporarily
2020-03-05	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-03-05	Senate	Committee substitute rejected 20109414D-S1
2020-03-05	Senate	Committee amendment rejected
2020-03-05	Senate	Read third time
2020-03-05	Senate	Floor substitute printed 20109602D-S2 (Barker)
2020-03-04	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-03-02	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20109414D-S1
2020-03-02	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (14-Y 0-N)
2020-02-25	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-02-25	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (12-Y 3-N)
2020-02-12	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-02-12	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-11	House	VOTE: Passage (54-Y 45-N)
2020-02-11	House	Read third time and passed House (54-Y 45-N)
2020-02-10	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB1256H1
2020-02-10	House	Emergency clause deleted
2020-02-10	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20107764D-H1
2020-02-10	House	Read second time
2020-02-09	House	Read first time
2020-02-07	House	Committee substitute printed 20107764D-H1
2020-02-07	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 9-N)
2020-02-06	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
2020-02-05	House	Assigned P & E sub: Redistricting
2020-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/08/20 20104115D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
24	2	304.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	304.3	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	306	(n/a)	See Bill Text
24	2	309.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB1256
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1256+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1256H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1256S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB1256S2+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H1805V0008+HB1256
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H18V0096+HB1256
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0823+HB1256
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S08V0158+HB1256
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0496+HB1256
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1529HB1256+HB1256
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1653HB1256+HB1256
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1654HB1256+HB1256