| SR92 | Intro
Sine Die | Celebrating the life of Charles L. Moseley.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| SJR373 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Apheresis Associates of Northern Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-27
Failed to pass in Senate |
| HR242 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize clinical trials; cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil. Expresses the sense of the House of Delegates that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration be urged to authorize clinical trials to determi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR808 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to authorize clinical trials; cannabidiol oil and THC-A oil. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration be urged to authorize clinical trials to determine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-20
Tabled in Rules by voice vote |
| HJR699 | Intro
Sine Die | Commending Arthur A. Kirk, M.D.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-13
Agreed to by House by voice vote |
| SJR254 | Intro
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] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR286 | Intro
Sine Die | Commemorating the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin Butler.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR294 | Intro
Sine Die | Regulation of emissions from existing power plants; withdrawal of proposed federal guidelines. Urges the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposed emissions guidelines for the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR227 | Intro
Sine Die | Memorializing the Congress of the United States to transfer the title of public lands to the western states. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that Congress should engage in good faith communication, cooperation, and consultation to coordin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR308 | Intro
Sine Die | Employment of counsel to challenge federal rules establishing carbon emission guidelines for existing electric utility generating units. Requests the Joint Rules Committee to employ legal counsel to represent the Commonwealth in litigation challengin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR302 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); general warrants of search or seizure prohibited. Clarifies that the right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, businesses, lands, papers, and eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee |
| SJR290 | Intro
Sine Die | Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Expresses support for the establishment of the Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Hampton Roads.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| SJR279 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; joint subcommittee; dangers of Tannerite; report. Establishes a nine-member joint subcommittee to study the dangers of Tannerite and, if necessary, identify the potential need to (i) restrict the amounts of Tannerite that can be purchased lega...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee |
| SJR240 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JCHC; older Virginians' access to oral health care; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care to study older Virginians' access to oral health care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-11
To Senate Rules Committee |
| HJR622 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; diversion programs for certain drug offenders; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study alternative sentencing for possession of certain drugs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR616 | Intro
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 for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR583 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; creation of model local government charter; report. Establishes a 10-member joint subcommittee to study creation of a model local government charter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR706 | Intro
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] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR686 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three full terms (12 years) and members of the House of Delegates to six full terms (12 years). The limitations apply to service for both cons...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR546 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; gender-specific references; Bostic v. Rainey; report. Requests the Boyd-Graves Conference and the Virginia Criminal Justice Conference to study how to revise relevant gender-specific references in the Code of Virginia in light of the 2014 Bost...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR502 | 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] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR628 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of civil rights. Provides that no person convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote unless he has served his full sentence and been released back to civil society. The proposed amendment ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR648 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Virginia Housing Commission; discriminatory practices; report. Directs the Virginia Housing Commission to study the prevalence in the Commonwealth of housing discrimination based on sexual orientation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR547 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); establish uniform schedule for general elections. Establishes a uniform schedule for general elections of state and local officers to coincide with federal elections held in November of even-numbered years...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR596 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JCHC to study resources for health care for unserved and underserved populations; report. Directs the Joint Commission on Health Care (JCHC) to study resources for health care for unserved and underserved populations in the Commonwealth. In co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR542 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; burial sites of enslaved persons; report. Requests the Department of Historic Resources to study the issues related to the identification, preservation, and maintenance of sites where enslaved persons are buried.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR551 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications of voters; residency requirements. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law a method of voting for those voters who are registered to vote in a district but offer to vote at an inco...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR519 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); right to acquire farm-produced food. Provides that people have the right to acquire, for their own consumption, farm-produced food directly at the farm with agreement from the farmer who produced it.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR491 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); qualifications to vote; executive clemency; restoration of right to vote. Provides that no person convicted of a felony shall be qualified to vote unless he has completed service of his sentence, including...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR636 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Criminal Justice Services; the sufficiency of funding for training law-enforcement officers, including crisis intervention training; report. Requests the Department of Criminal Justice Services to study the sufficiency of funding...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR516 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; DEQ; long-term impact of biosolids and industrial waste; report. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality to study the long-term effects of the storage and land application of industrial wastes and sewage sludge on public health, reside...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR536 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Lottery Proceeds Fund. Allows lottery proceeds to be appropriated from the Lottery Proceeds Fund to public institutions of higher education for purposes of providing education and employment training for v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HR214 | Intro
Sine Die | Beginning of life. Recognizes and finds that the life of the human person commences at conception, also known as fertilization, and that the United States Supreme Court 1973 Roe and Doe decisions striking down state laws criminalizing abortion, which...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| HJR655 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security; Virginia Cyber Protection Teams; Report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR633 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Board of Education; power to establish, operate, maintain, or supervise schools. Permits the General Assembly to grant to the Board of Education the power and duty to assume the operation or supervision of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR563 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to update its 2004 study of replacing individual income tax revenues with sales and use tax revenues; report. Directs JLARC to update its 2004 study of replacing individual income tax revenues with...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR601 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; equity of funding for transportation programs; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the adequacy and equity of funding for transportation programs in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR499 | Intro
Sine Die | United States Constitution; amendment. Makes application to the United States Congress to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing a constitutional amendment that pertains to the subject of balancing the federal budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR585 | Intro
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] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR578 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); general warrants of search or seizure prohibited. Clarifies that the right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, businesses, lands, papers, and eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR619 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; Department of Rail and Public Transportation to study Metrorail extension; report. Requests the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to study the efficacy and desirability of extending the Metrorail in Virginia and to report on its fin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR500 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); failure to pass an appropriation act. Provides that if an appropriation act has not been adopted 30 days prior to the expiration of the current appropriation act, a joint session of the General Assembly sh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR505 | 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] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR522 | Intro
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 for persons convicted of nonviolent felonies who have completed se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR646 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); indirect initiative. Establishes a procedure by which the people may propose laws to the General Assembly and adopt or reject the same laws at the polls. The measure requires that the number of signatures ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR520 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property tax exemption for nonprofit medical clinics serving the indigent. Exempts from taxation property owned by nonprofit medical clinics organized to provide health care services without charge to the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR627 | 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] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
| HJR528 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; militarization of police; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the militarization of law-enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR501 | Intro
Sine Die | Study; JLARC; reorganization of law-enforcement agencies; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study reorganizing all or some state law-enforcement functions under the Department of State Police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Rules Committee |
| HJR584 | Intro
Sine Die | Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Virginia Redistricting Commission; redistricting criteria and process. Establishes the Virginia Redistricting Commission which will conduct the decennial reapportionment of the election districts for the H...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2015-02-10
To House Privileges and Elections Committee |
