Virginia Senate Bill 203 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Failed on March 12 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-12 - Failed to pass in Senate
Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission; standards and criteria. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission (the Commission) pursuant to Article II, Sections 6 and 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia. The 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, 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.

Redistricting; Virginia Redistricting Commission established.

Sen. Louise Lucas [D]	Sen. Mamie Locke [D]	Sen. Jennifer Boysko [D]	Sen. Barbara Favola [D]
Sen. Joseph Morrissey [D]

2020-03-07 - Senate - Senate: Senate requested second conference committee (33-Y 5-N) (Y: 33 N: 5 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-04 - Senate - Senate: Senate acceded to request (25-Y 15-N) (Y: 25 N: 15 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-02 - Senate - Senate: House amendment rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N) (Y: 0 N: 40 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-26 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (86-Y 13-N) (Y: 86 N: 13 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-21 - House - House: Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (16-Y 3-N) (Y: 16 N: 3 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate (20-Y 20-N) (Y: 20 N: 20 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Committee substitute agreed to (21-Y 19-N) (Y: 21 N: 19 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Committee substitute reconsidered (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-11 - Senate - Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-10 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N) (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-06 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N) (Y: 15 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-04 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (13-Y 2-N) (Y: 13 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-12	Senate	Failed to pass in Senate
2020-03-12	Senate	No further action taken
2020-03-08	House	House acceded to request for second conference committee
2020-03-07	Senate	Senate requested second conference committee (33-Y 5-N)
2020-03-05	House	Delegates: Simon, VanValkenburg, Price
2020-03-05	House	Conferees appointed by House
2020-03-04	Senate	Senators: Lucas, Barker, Ruff
2020-03-04	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2020-03-04	Senate	Senate acceded to request (25-Y 15-N)
2020-03-03	House	House requested conference committee
2020-03-03	House	House insisted on amendment
2020-03-02	Senate	House amendment rejected by Senate (0-Y 40-N)
2020-02-28	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-02-26	House	VOTE: Passage (86-Y 13-N)
2020-02-26	House	Passed House with amendment (86-Y 13-N)
2020-02-26	House	Engrossed by House as amended
2020-02-26	House	Committee amendment agreed to
2020-02-26	House	Read third time
2020-02-25	House	Read second time
2020-02-21	House	Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (16-Y 3-N)
2020-02-18	House	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2020-02-18	House	Read first time
2020-02-18	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-02-11	Senate	Chair votes Yes
2020-02-11	Senate	Passed Senate (20-Y 20-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB203S1
2020-02-11	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20107237D-S1 (21-Y 19-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Floor substitute printed 20108171D-S2 ( Vogel and Hanger)
2020-02-11	Senate	Committee substitute reconsidered (40-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-02-11	Senate	Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB203S1
2020-02-11	Senate	Committee substitute agreed to 20107237D-S1
2020-02-11	Senate	Reading of substitute waived
2020-02-11	Senate	Read second time
2020-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (36-Y 0-N)
2020-02-06	Senate	Reported from Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 1-N)
2020-02-04	Senate	Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
2020-02-04	Senate	Committee substitute printed 20107237D-S1
2020-02-04	Senate	Reported from Privileges and Elections with substitute (13-Y 2-N)
2019-12-30	Senate	Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
2019-12-30	Senate	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20102515D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute 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+SB203
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB203+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB203S1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+SB203S2+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S08V0100+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S05V0268+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0457SB0203+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0536SB0203+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0537SB0203+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0538SB0203+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0539SB0203+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV0540SB0203+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H18V0134+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1507+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1335SB0203+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1508SB0203+SB0203
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1843SB0203+SB0203