| HJR112 | Intro
Sine Die | Early childhood education. Recognizes the inestimable value of early childhood education to children and sets a goal of extending the availability of early childhood education so that the Virginia Preschool Initiative and Head Start together serve 5...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR146 | Intro
Sine Die | High capacity transit. Requests the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make high capacity transit a priority for funding by the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-20
To House Appropriations Committee |
| HJR110 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; efficiency of the regionalization of school divisions and the consolidation of administrative personnel between school divisions and local governing bodies; report. Requests the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the effic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR104 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; feasibility of creating a museum honoring great Americans; report. Requests that the Department of Historic Resources study and report on the feasibility and impact of establishing a museum in Northern Virginia honoring great Americans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR125 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies who have completed service of their sentence inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR95 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study feasibility for community colleges to offer selected baccalaureate degrees; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility and implications of the option for community colleges to offer selected b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR116 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission to redraw congressional and General Assembly district boundaries after each decennial census. Appointments to the 13-mem...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR88 | Intro
Sine Die | Resolution; food deserts; report. Requests the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to explore and recommend strategies to eliminate food deserts to make healthy and affordable food products available and accessible to low-income and poor citizens...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR87 | Intro
Sine Die | Prostate cancer screening; report. Requests the State Health Commissioner to promote and emphasize prostate cancer screening as an effective tool in prostate cancer prevention. The State Health Commissioner shall submit a report of his progress in me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR90 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR86 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR71 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR314 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending the work of the Fort Monroe Authority, Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park, Hampton City Council, Governor of Virginia, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and National Park Service for their work in establishing the Fort M...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House General Laws Committee |
| HJR231 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits a Governor elected in 2017 and thereafter to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two four-year terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR229 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Virginia Congressional Delegation. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly in urging the Virginia Congressional Delegation to oppose the enactment of a 401(k)-style defined contribution pension for the members of the United Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR27 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program; report. Directs the Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to study the establishment of a mandatory renewable energy portfolio standard program for the Commonwealth. The study will (i)...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR228 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Congress of the United States. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the Congress be requested to report to the states on all pending applications submitted by the states to call a convention to amend the United States C...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR23 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment First initiative; report. Requests the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to develop and implement an Employment First initiative for the Commonwealth to increase opportunities for meaningful employment in integrated community settin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR19 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; options for an opt-out program for organ, eye, and tissue donation; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study options for establishing an opt-out program for organ, eye, and tissue donation in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR18 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; community-based mental health services for individuals transitioning from state hospitals; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study the availability of community-based mental health services for individuals transitioning f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR17 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by general law for the restoration of civil rights for persons convicted of felonies who have completed service of their sentence inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR13 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Crime Commission; ignition interlock for DUI first offender; report. Requires the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the feasibility of requiring installation of an ignition interlock for a DUI first offender along with the issuance of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR12 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; whether to establish a bank operated by the Commonwealth; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study whether to establish a bank operated by the Commonwealth. The study shall consider recommendations for legislation to establish a publi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR9 | Intro
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 nonprof...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR7 | Intro
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] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR172 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study the horse racing industry in the Commonwealth; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to study the horse racing industry in the Commonwealth and report its findings by November 30, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR4 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; local license tax business classifications and tax rates; report. Directs the Department of Taxation to study the local license tax business classifications and tax rates. The Department is to complete its work by November 30, 2012.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR171 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; reduce Medicaid costs using telemedicine; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study reducing Medicaid costs by using telemedicine. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) examine the current use of telemedicine in the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR2 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission; taxation of local government property that is physically located in a different county, city, or town; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the local fiscal i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR147 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; expedited partner therapy; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study options and develop recommendations for implementing expedited partner therapy in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR141 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; unfunded federal mandates; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the impact of unfunded federal mandates in the Commonwealth. The Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission shall report its findin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR51 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; options for accepting military training and experience as satisfying requirements for licensure, certification, or registration as a health care provider; report. Requests the Department of Health Professions to study options for accepting mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR52 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; reforming Virginia's state and local tax structure; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study reforming Virginia's tax structure, including the feasibility of adopting a flat tax or a fair tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR140 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; revenue impact to Virginia of legalizing the sale of marijuana under conditions and restrictions; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the potential revenue impact on the Commonwealth of legalizing the sale and use of marijuana, w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR62 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission to study regulation of sale of methamphetamine precursors; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the effectiveness of the current regulatory scheme for the sale of the methamphetamine prec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR63 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the efficiency and effectiveness of the Composite Index of Local Ability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR66 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study suspension and expulsion practices in public schools; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review and consider school discipline practices and effective alternatives to suspension and expulsion an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR137 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; land-disturbing activities; report. Requests the Secretary of Natural Resources to study the possibility that regulatory requirements may be modified to alleviate the cost and time required to pursue land-disturbing activities in Virginia, su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR84 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; severe shortage of medical doctors; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the current and impending severe shortage of medical doctors in Virginia. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) determine whether a shor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR136 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; determination eligibility for disability claims under the Virginia Retirement System; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC) to study the system for determining eligibility for disability claims under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR89 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study suspension and expulsion practices in public schools; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review and consider school discipline practices and effective alternatives to suspension and expulsion an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR134 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC to study economic impact of proposed Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Parkway; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the potential economic impact of the proposed Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Park...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR133 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; operation and performance of the Commonwealth's system of child protective services; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the operation and performance of the Commonwealth's system of child protective ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR121 | Intro
Sine Die | Designating Horse Month in Virginia. Designates the month of May, in 2012 and in each succeeding year, as Horse Month in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR101 | Intro
Sine Die | Meetings between the United States Senate members of the Virginia Congressional Delegation and members of the Virginia General Assembly. Invites the United States Senate members of the Virginia Congressional Delegation to address the Virginia General...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR129 | Intro
Sine Die | Resolution; requesting the Attorney General to explore a challenge to the constitutionality of federal TMDL regulations; report. Requests the Attorney General of Virginia to explore a challenge to the constitutionality of certain Total Maximum Daily ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee |
| HJR102 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; amendment. Makes application to the United States Congress to call an amendment convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment that provides limits on terms of service in the Congress.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR127 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Crime Commission; determining best use of resources for helping released nonviolent offenders; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the creation of a rating mechanism to determine which nonviolent felony offenders would...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR126 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; solitary confinement; JLARC; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the use of solitary confinement by the Department of Corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR123 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; chronic school absenteeism; report. Requests the Board of Education to study the causes of chronic school absenteeism and the efficacy of establishing uniform requirements for maximum absences from school attendance. In conducting its study, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-02-14
To House Rules Committee |
