Virginia Senate Bill 56 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-02-15 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Prayer at public events. Provides that whenever an individual is requested to provide prayer, invocation, or benediction at a public event that is sanctioned by a governmental agency, such governmental agency shall have no authority to regulate how that individual refers to God in prayer or to prohibit the religious content of the individual's prayer, invocation, or benediction, provided such prayer, invocation, or benediction is not used to advance a particular religion or to disparage another faith or belief.

Prayer at public events; governmental agency to have no authority to regulate.

Sen. Stephen Martin [R]

Sen. Richard Stuart [R]

2010-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2010-01-20 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-15		Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
2010-01-20		Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice
2010-01-20		Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N)
2010-01-04		Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
2010-01-04		Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10100562D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+SB56
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+SB56+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+vot+S12V0037+SB0056
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+vot+S03V0140+SB0056