| HJR852 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress to adopt legislation requiring a balanced federal budget and to call a convention to amend to the Constitution of the United States to require a balanced federal budget. Expresses the General Assembly's support for a balanced f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR511 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-27
House: Failed to pass in House |
| SJR363 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-27
Senate: Failed to pass in Senate |
| HJR983 | Engross
Sine Die | Election of a Supreme Court of Virginia Justice.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-26
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR500 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to work. Provides that any agreement or combination between any employer and any labor union or labor organization whereby persons not members of such union or organization shall be denied the right ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR539 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); imposition of taxes and fees. Requires that any bill or ordinance passed by the General Assembly or a local governing body creating, imposing, or increasing a tax, license, fee, or any other charge pass by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR542 | Engross
Sine Die | United States Constitution; amendment. Makes application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment that permits the repeal of any federal law or regulation by the vote of two-thirds o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR593 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); free exercise of religion. Amends current free exercise of religion provisions of the Virginia Constitution to permit prayer and the recognition of religious beliefs, heritage, and traditions on public pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR284 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed service of their sentences...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR614 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); aid for nonpublic higher education; religious or theological education for military chaplains. Allows the General Assembly to provide for loans to, and grants to or on behalf of, students attending nonpro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR687 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly powers; limitations. Provides that the General Assembly may suspend or nullify any or all portions of any administrative rule or regulation by joint resolution agreed to by a majority of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-22
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR733 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress to amend the federal to amend the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 (P.L. 104-191). Urges Congress to restore in loco parentis at i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR320 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; establishing a joint subcommittee to study the academic achievement of Virginia school children compared with that of students internationally; report. Directs the Commission on Youth to study how Virginia school children compare academically...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR328 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; replacement of the state motor fuel tax; report. Requests the Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research to study the desirability and feasibility of replacing the state motor fuel tax with alternatives including a mileage-base...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR350 | Engross
Sine Die | Joint Subcommittee to Study Strategies and Models for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment; report. Continues the Joint Subcommittee to Study Strategies and Models for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment for one additional year, through 201...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| SJR354 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study state employee compensation; report. Provides for the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the salary structure and pay of state employees compared with similarly situat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR624 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing resolution. Memorializes the United States Food and Drug Administration and the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference to work collaboratively with the shellfish industry and state regulators to improve shellfish safety.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR642 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing the members of the Virginia delegation of the Congress of the United States; value-added tax. Urges the Virginia delegation of Congress to oppose any legislation that would levy a value-added tax (VAT) on the consumption of goods.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR577 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializes Congress to recognize the importance of unfettered access to the Internet. Urges Congress to limit the Federal Communications Commission's authority over regulation of the Internet.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR578 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress regarding the expansion of the Federal Trade Commission's rulemaking authority. Urges Congress to recognize the separation of powers principles established in the United States Constitution, acknowledges the importance of the F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR315 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; E-ZPass; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the policies and procedures of other states participating in the E-ZPass program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR615 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restriction on contents of a law that appropriates funds. Prohibits the enactment of any law that appropriates funds containing (i) any provision that imposes, continues, increases, or revives any tax, fe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance (8-Y 7-N) |
| SJR341 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Directing the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency and effectiveness of the Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay. In conducting the study, the Joint Legislati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-21
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR635 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; insurance provisions of PPACA; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the implementation of the insurance provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The joint subcommittee is directed to monitor the wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-18
Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR355 | Engross
Sine Die | Requesting the Governor to consider zero-based budgeting. Requests that the Governor, through the Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring, consider the cost savings that may be achieved through zero-based budgeting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2011-02-17
House: Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR124 | Engross
Sine Die | Directing the Joint Commission on Health Care to study access to medical care in rural Southwest Virginia; report. In conducting the study, the Joint Commission on Health Care shall examine (i) the feasibility and effectiveness of a pilot program nar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2010-12-02
To Senate Rules Committee |
