Virginia House Joint Resolution 615 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: Passed on March 26 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-26 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Constitutional amendment (first resolution); apportionment; Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission, a 16-member Commission tasked with establishing districts for the United States House of Representatives and for the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly. The Commission consists of eight legislative members and eight citizen members. The legislative members 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 members are selected 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 Commission is required to submit to the General Assembly plans of districts for the Senate and the House of Delegates of the General Assembly no later than 45 days following the receipt of census data and plans of districts for the United States House of Representatives no later than 60 days following the receipt of census data, or July 1 of that year, whichever occurs later. The measure requires certain vote thresholds for plans, depending on the type of district, in order to be submitted to the General Assembly. No amendments may be made to a plan by the General Assembly or the Governor. The measure requires additional plans to be submitted, or additional time to be given to submit a plan, in certain circumstances, and further provides that districts will be drawn by the Supreme Court of Virginia if such efforts fail.

Constitutional amendment; Virginia Redistricting Commission (first reference).

Del. Mark Cole [R]	Del. Timothy Hugo [R]	Del. Kaye Kory [D]	Del. James Leftwich [R]
Sen. John McGuire [R]	Del. Robert Orrock [R]	Del. Margaret Ransone [R]	Del. Christopher Stolle [R]

2019-02-23 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (83-Y 15-N) (Y: 83 N: 15 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-23 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-20 - Senate - Senate: Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-19 - House - House: VOTE: REJECTED (47-Y 52-N) (Y: 47 N: 52 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2019-02-18 - Senate - Senate: Agreed to by Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-12 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (11-Y 0-N 1-A) (Y: 11 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-02-04 - House - House: VOTE: ADOPTION (51-Y 48-N) (Y: 51 N: 48 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-02-01 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 10-N) (Y: 12 N: 10 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-01-28 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-26		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0821)
2019-03-26	House	Assigned Chapter 821 (effective 7/1/19)
2019-03-09	Senate	Signed by President
2019-03-07	House	Signed by Speaker
2019-03-07	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ615ER)
2019-03-07	House	Enrolled
2019-02-23	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-23	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (83-Y 15-N)
2019-02-23	House	Conference report agreed to by House (83-Y 15-N)
2019-02-23	House	Pending question ordered
2019-02-23	House	Conference substitute printed 19107738D-H3
2019-02-23		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2019-02-21	Senate	Senators: Barker, Vogel, Cosgrove
2019-02-21	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2019-02-21	House	Delegates: Cole, Rush, Leftwich, Krizek
2019-02-21	House	Conferees appointed by House
2019-02-21	House	House acceded to request
2019-02-20	Senate	Senate requested conference committee
2019-02-20	Senate	Senate insisted on substitute (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-19	House	VOTE: REJECTED (47-Y 52-N)
2019-02-19	House	Senate substitute rejected by House 19106768D-S1 (47-Y 52-N)
2019-02-19	House	Placed on Calendar
2019-02-18	Senate	Agreed to by Senate with substitute (40-Y 0-N)
2019-02-18	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute HJ615S1
2019-02-18	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 19106768D-S1
2019-02-18	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2019-02-18	Senate	Read third time
2019-02-15	Senate	Passed by for the day
2019-02-14	Senate	Read second time
2019-02-12	Senate	Committee substitute printed 19106768D-S1
2019-02-12	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (11-Y 0-N 1-A)
2019-02-05	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2019-02-05	Senate	Reading waived
2019-02-04	House	VOTE: ADOPTION (51-Y 48-N)
2019-02-04	House	Agreed to by House (51-Y 48-N)
2019-02-04	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HJ615H1
2019-02-04	House	Committee substitute agreed to 19105844D-H1
2019-02-04	House	Substitute by Delegate Sickles ruled out of order 19106417D-H2
2019-02-04	House	Taken up
2019-02-04	House	Floor substitute printed 19106417D-H2 (Sickles)
2019-02-01	House	Committee substitute printed 19105844D-H1
2019-02-01	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
2019-01-28	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
2019-01-12	House	Assigned P & E sub: Subcommittee #4
2019-01-01	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2019-01-01	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101058D

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Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+sum+HJ615
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HJ615+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HJ615H1+hil
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Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+HJ615ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+ful+CHAP0821+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?191+vot+H1804V0004+HJ0615
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