United States Government
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Dulles Access Highway; memorializing Congress to take legislative action necessary to impose tolls. [HJR-84]
Memorializing Congress; tolls on Dulles Access Highway. Memorializes Congress to impose and collect tolls for use of the Dulles Access Highway in order to limit toll increases for use of the Dulles Toll Road used to finance the rail-to-Dulles project.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dave LaRock
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/31/2014
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Federal government's domestic surveillance programs; joint subcommittee to study. [HJR-4]
Study; Fourth Amendment implications of the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance programs; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance and data collection programs and whether such programs comport with the protections against unreasonable searches and seizures required by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 10 of the Constitution of Virginia.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Marshall
Left In Rules on 02/12/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
United States Constitution; memorializing Va. Congressional Delegation to propose an amendment. [HJR-27]
Memorializing Congress to propose an amendment to Article V of the United States Constitution. Expresses the General Assembly's support for an amendment to modify the process for proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution by the calling of an amendment convention of the several states.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Bell
Passed By Indefinitely In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/21/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Amendment convention; proposing amendment to United States Constitution, federal budget. [HJR-23]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. James LeMunyon
Taken Up on 02/10/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2013; Congress of United States urged to pass. [HJR-205]
Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2013; United States Congress. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to pass
Sponsored by: Rep. Christopher Stolle
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/31/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
United States Constitution; memorializing Congress of U. S. to propose Regulation Freedom Amendment. [HJR-177]
Regulation Freedom Amendment. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to propose the Regulation Freedom Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Wilt
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/31/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
United States Constitution; General Assembly to ratify and affirm Equal Rights Amendment. [HJR-12]
United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. This joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains viable and may be ratified notwithstanding the expiration of the 10-year ratification period set out in the resolving clause, as amended, in the proposal adopted by Congress.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jennifer McClellan
Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/12/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Federal government; allows Governor to declare state of emergency in response to a shutdown, etc. [HB-90]
Federal government shutdown; creditor process; utility service. Allows the Governor to declare a state of emergency in response to a federal government shutdown, which is defined as a partial or total discontinuance of federal governmental services due to a failure by the President and Congress to approve the necessary funding for the operations of the federal government. During the period that the state of emergency is in effect, no public utility shall terminate a customer's service for nonpayment if the State Corporation Commission determines
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Marshall
Left In Courts Of Justice on 02/12/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Charitable gaming; VDACS may issue permit while tax-exempt status is pending approval by IRS. [HB-616]
Charitable gaming; interim certification of tax-exempt status. Removes the authority of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to issue interim certificates of tax-exempt status to charitable organizations that seek a permit to conduct charitable gaming and that have an application pending before the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The Department may, however, issue a charitable gaming permit while the permittee's tax-exempt status is pending approval by the Internal Revenue Service. The bill updates the reference to the reporting requirements
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Albo
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0208) on 03/07/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Federal parks in Virginia; provision of temporary funding. [HB-529]
Federal parks in Virginia; provision of temporary funding. Authorizes the Governor to provide funding and execute necessary agreements to allow the temporary operation of any Virginia property controlled by the National Park Service in the event of a federal government shutdown. The funds may come from the State Park Conservation Resources Fund, voluntary donations, funds allocated to the Department of Conservation and Recreation, or other sources.
Sponsored by: Rep. Brenda Pogge
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/31/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Student information; release to federal government agencies or authorized representative of agency. [HB-449]
Student information; release to federal government agencies. Prohibits a member or employee of a local school board or the Department of Education from transmitting personally identifiable information from a student's record to a federal government agency or an authorized representative of such agency, except as required by federal law or regulation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0322) on 03/27/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Federal firearms laws; enforcement. [HB-43]
Federal firearms laws; enforcement. Provides that agencies and political subdivisions of the Commonwealth, and employees thereof, shall not knowingly aid any employee or entity of the federal government (i) in the enforcement of federal firearms laws that take effect on or after December 1, 2013, or (ii) in the conduct or enforcement of a criminal background check related to any intrastate sale, loan, gift, or other transfer of a firearm between citizens of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Marshall
Left In Appropriations on 02/12/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Health benefit exchange; plan management functions. [HB-338]
Health benefit exchange; plan management functions. Prohibits the State Corporation Commission from contracting or entering into a memorandum of understanding to carry out its plan management functions with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or any other federal agency. The measure provides that the Commission's duty to certify plans for participation in the health benefit exchange is subject to the provision of federal funding sufficient to pay the operating expenses necessary to carry out the plan management functions. The measure
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Berg
Continued To 2015 In Commerce And Labor By Voice Vote on 01/28/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Student information; release to federal government agencies. [HB-200]
Student information; release to federal government agencies. Prohibits a member or employee of a local school board or the Board of Education from transmitting personally identifiable information from a student's record to a federal government agency or an authorized representative of such agency for purposes permitted by local, state, or federal law unless the member or employee first notifies the student's parent and provides the parent with the opportunity to opt out of the transmission.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Bell
Stricken From Docket By Education By Voice Vote on 01/20/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Detention and removal of U.S. citizen from State; SPS shall request notification within 24 hours. [HB-1256]
Detention and removal of a citizen from the Commonwealth by the federal government. Provides that the Secretary of Public Safety shall request from the U.S. Secretary of Defense that, when an agency of the federal government detains any United States citizen pursuant to 50 U.S.C. § 1541 et seq. as provided by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (P.L. 112-81, § 1021 [providing for detention of any person "who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored those
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Sponsored by: Rep. Benjamin Cline
Passed By Indefinitely In Courts Of Justice (9-y 4-n) on 02/26/2014
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Check cashers; recordkeeping requirements, civil penalty. [HB-1026]
Check cashers; recordkeeping requirements; civil penalty. Requires each registered check casher to make copies of, or maintain a record of information from, each item cashed and the customer's identification document prior to cashing the item. Records for each transaction are required to be retained for six months. A violation of these requirements is punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $100. The measure does not apply to registered check cashers that are principally engaged in the bona fide retail sale of goods or services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Riley Ingram
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0768) on 04/07/2014
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Religious freedom; supporting those suffering religious persecution and discrimination. [SR-17]
Religious freedom. Memorializes the Secretary of State of the United States of America to support those suffering religious persecution and discrimination in countries that do not recognize religious freedom.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Left In Rules on 11/30/2012
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
United States Constitution; General Assembly recognizes 2nd Amendment protects right to bear arms. [SJR-368]
Recognizing that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms. Recognizes that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms.
Sponsored by: Sen. Bryce Reeves
Bill Text As Passed Senate And House (sj368er) on 03/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
United Nations Arms Trade Treaty; memorializes President of U.S. and U.S. Senate to not ratify. [SJR-325]
United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. Memorializes the President of the United States and the United States Senate to not ratify the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Martin
Passed By Indefinitely In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Banking legislation; memorializing Congress to enact legislation to reinstate certain functions. [SJR-273]
Banking legislation. Memorializes the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that would reinstate the separation of commercial and investment banking functions that were in effect under the Glass-Steagall Act (Banking Act of 1933). Legislation enacted should be modeled on H.R. 1489 of the 112th Congress.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Black
Passed By Indefinitely In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/01/2013