| HJR506 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; short- and long-term impact of biosolids and industrial waste; report. Requests the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and the Department of Mines, Minerals, and Energy's Division of Geology and Mineral Resources' Virginia geological survey,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in House |
| HJR598 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; driver's license suspension for unpaid court fines and costs; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to study the use of driver's license suspension as a collection method for unpaid court fines and costs and make recommendations for improvement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SJR271 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; long-term impact of biosolids and industrial waste; report. Requests the Secretary of Natural Resources, the Secretary of Health and Human Resources, and the Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry to convene a joint task force to review and eva...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HR297 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to circuit court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
VOTE: ADOPTION (98-Y 0-N 1-A) |
| HR299 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to juvenile and domestic relations district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
VOTE: ADOPTION (99-Y 0-N) |
| HR298 | Engross
Sine Die | Nominating persons to be elected to general district court judgeships.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-25
Introduced bill reprinted 15105424D |
| HJR515 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); powers of General Assembly; 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 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| HJR719 | Engross
Sine Die | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility; environmental impact statement. Encourages the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to conduct an environmental impact study related to landing commercial booster rockets and spacecraft at NASA's Wallops Fligh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR285 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; feasibility of expanding family and medical leave in the state to complement existing federal requirements; report. Establishes an 11-member joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of expanding family and medical leave in the state to comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR281 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; urban schools; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the unique and specific challenges facing urban school divisions. The provisions of the resolution are contingent on funding in a 2015 general appropriation act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Appropriations Committee |
| SJR216 | Engross
Sine Die | United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. The joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| SJR263 | Engross
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] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR707 | Engross
Sine Die | Opposition to federal Postsecondary Institution Ratings System. Recognizes the quality and value of diversity and innovation in the institutions of higher education in the United States and strongly disagrees with the proposal of the President of the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR603 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Virginia State Crime Commission; prevention of sexual violence on the campuses of public and private institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth; report. Directs the Virginia State Crime Commission to study the prevention of sexual vi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR284 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission which will conduct the decennial reapportionment of the election districts for the House of Representatives and the Gene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR537 | Engross
Sine Die | Drug trafficking; interstate cooperation. Requests the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia to initiate a memorandum of agreement with the Governor of Maryland pertaining to the enforcement of laws involving the illegal trafficking of controlled ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR666 | Engross
Sine Die | Clean Water Act; opposition. Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to recognize the Commonwealth of Virginia's opposition to the proposed rule regarding the Clean Water Act definition of "waters of the Un...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR238 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; restoration of civil rights. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights to persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR608 | Engross
Sine Die | Environmental Protection Agency emissions guidelines; opposition. Recognizes the Commonwealth's opposition to proposed Environmental Protection Agency emissions guidelines for the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants unde...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-24
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR577 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); charter schools. Grants the Board of Education authority, subject to criteria and conditions prescribed by the General Assembly, to establish charter schools within the school divisions of the Commonwealth...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-23
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SJR220 | Engross
Sine Die | Appalachian Cherokee Nation Tribe. Extends state recognition to the Appalachian Cherokee Nation Tribe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR292 | Engross
Sine Die | Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia. Extends state recognition to the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR237 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; DHCD; Virginia Homeless Solutions Program $500 asset cap; report. Requests the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) to study the Virginia Homeless Solutions Program $500 asset cap for individuals transitioning from shelters t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR280 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; consolidation of law-enforcement agencies under the Department of State Police; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study consolidation of all state law-enforcement agencies in the executive branch under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR299 | Engross
Sine Die | Virginia Housing Commission; affordable housing; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study opportunities for and barriers to safe and affordable housing for people reentering society from Virginia's jails and prisons and to provide a r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR236 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services; auxiliary grant program; report. Requests the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to study the auxiliary grant program. In conducting its study, the Department is directed to (i) e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| SJR288 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Department of Education; effect of local use value assessment of certain real estate on the Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; report. Requests the Department of Education to (i) determine, for each of the 95 localities that have adopted...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR743 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Eugene Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR727 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Nelson County Future Farmers of America Farm Business Management team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR720 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Carl Michael Ross.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| HJR721 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Circle Sales Incorporated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR741 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR728 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Nelson County Middle School Future Farmers of America Agronomy team.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR744 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Lorraine Payne Williams.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR752 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Tim Webb.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR730 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Mt. Tabor Ruritan Club.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR724 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Pat Manuel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR740 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of the Honorable James Brady Murray.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| HJR731 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR749 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Sterling N. Ransone, Jr., M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR738 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Rotary Club of Lunenburg.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR742 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending Donna Shaunesey.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR732 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending New River Community Action.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR722 | Engross
Sine Die | Commending the Courier-Record.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate by voice vote |
| HJR746 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Paul Gagnon.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| HJR751 | Engross
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Brock Anthony Michael Funk.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-12
Agreed to by Senate |
| SJR252 | Engross
Sine Die | United States Congress; application to call a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution to provide for a balanced budget requirement. Initiates the process to call a convention to amend the United States Constitution to add a balanced budget amendmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR305 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); powers of General Assembly; 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 o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| SJR291 | Engross
Sine Die | Study; Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; report. Requests the Department of Environmental Quality to study the potential for the establishment of a funding source to localities in coastal Virginia for flood resilience that could result by including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-09
Requires 2/3 of members voting for passage |
| SJR233 | Engross
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); congressional and state legislative districts. Provides criteria for the General Assembly to observe in drawing districts, including respect for existing political boundaries, equal population, racial and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-05
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
