| SJR266 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights. Provides that a person convicted of a nonviolent felony who has completed service of his sentence and paid in full any restitution, fines, costs, and fees assessed against him...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR327 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); statewide school division for schools denied accreditation. Authorizes the General Assembly to establish a statewide school division to supervise and administer schools that have been denied accreditation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HJR910 | Engross
Sine Die | Richmond Ballet; Leap Week. Designates the third full week in March, in 2013 and in each succeeding year, as Richmond Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia, Leap Week in Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-23
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR909 | 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] | 2013-02-21
Rejected by Senate (15-Y 24-N) |
| HR220 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating a person to be elected as a member of the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-20
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| HJR590 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of a metallic-based monetary unit; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study whether the Commonwealth should adopt a metallic-based monetary unit to serve as a contingency currency for the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
Rejected by Senate |
| HJR693 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); statewide school division for schools denied accreditation. Authorizes the General Assembly to establish a statewide school division to supervise and administer schools that have been denied accreditation ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-19
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR611 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); the right to a secret ballot. Adds a provision to the Bill of Rights to preserve and protect the right to a secret ballot in elections for office, votes on ballot measures, and votes to designate or author...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Rejected by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| HJR536 | 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 are denied the right to wo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-15
Rejected by Senate (18-Y 22-N) |
| HJR802 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the voters of Goochland County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR755 | Engross
Sine Die | Tax restructuring; report. Requests the Virginia Municipal League, Virginia Association of Counties, Virginia Small Business Commission, and Virginia Manufacturing Development Commission to evaluate and develop a plan for implementing tax restructuri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| HJR607 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; parental rights and third-party custody and visitation awards; report. Requests the Virginia Bar Association to study Virginia's current law regarding the ability of third parties to seek custody of and visitation rights with other parents' ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules with letter by voice vote |
| HJR645 | Engross
Sine Die | Alcohol and substance abuse on college campuses. Encourages the institutions of higher education in Virginia to heighten awareness of the perils of alcohol and substance abuse on college campuses. The resolution notes that parents and college officia...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR653 | Engross
Sine Die | Tenth amendment of the United States Constitution. Reaffirms Virginia's rights and the rights of its citizens under the 10th amendment of the United States Constitution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR654 | Engross
Sine Die | Opposing United Nations Agenda 21. Recognizes the need to oppose United Nations Agenda 21 due to its radical plan of purported "sustainable development." The resolution states that the General Assembly recognizes the policy's infringement on the Amer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR744 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognition of the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated. Recognizes the existence of the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated, within the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR690 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal ethanol mandates for gasoline. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to repeal federal laws and regulations mandating that gasoline sold in the United States contain ethanol.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR586 | Engross
Sine Die | Weight limits on interstate highways. Memorializes the Virginia Congressional Delegation to support efforts to allow states to authorize higher weight limits for commercial motor vehicles carrying agricultural and forestry products on interstate high...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR732 | Engross
Sine Die | Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to encourage the U.S. General Services Administration to consider Virginia as the site for the new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-14
Passed by indefinitely in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR300 | Engross
Sine Die | Recognition of the Appalachian Cherokee Nation. Recognizes the existence within the Commonwealth of the Appalachian Cherokee Nation of Virginia and the United Cherokee Indian Tribe of Virginia, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR622 | 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] | 2013-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 3-N) |
| HJR594 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); limit on appropriations. Limits total appropriations in a year to the preceding year's total appropriations plus a percentage equal to the sum of the percentage increase in the rate of inflation plus the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-12
Passed by indefinitely in Privileges and Elections (12-Y 3-N) |
| SJR287 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); free exercise of religion. Adds to the present constitutional provision on freedom of religion and provides that the right to worship includes prayer in private or public settings, on government premises, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2013-02-06
To Senate Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR91 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress. Memorializes Congress to support the establishment of a National Women's History Museum in Washington, D.C.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR92 | 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] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR94 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing Congress; voluntary school prayer and prayer in public meetings. Memorializes the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to allow for voluntary public school prayer and public prayer.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR97 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia; management and structure of higher education centers; report. Requests the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to study the management and structure of the Commonwealth's four regiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR124 | Engross
Sine Die | Governor; Virginia's Public Safety Memorial. Requests the Governor to include in the Commonwealth Public Safety Memorial the names of state and local probation and parole officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR148 | Engross
Sine Die | Encourage the Government of Turkey to grant certain rights to the Ecumenical Patriarch. Encourages the Government of Turkey to grant the Ecumenical Patriarch appropriate international recognition, ecclesiastical succession, and the right to train cle...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR226 | Engross
Sine Die | Town of Chincoteague. Memorializes the U.S. Department of the Interior to oppose the federal purchase of land within the Town of Chincoteague.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR227 | Engross
Sine Die | Memorializing the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States to adopt a national energy policy. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the President and the Congress adopt a national energy policy that supports the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR362 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending CACI International Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2012-11-30
To Senate Rules Committee |
