SEARCH SITE
VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL
- Code of Virginia
- Virginia Administrative Code
- Constitution of Virginia
- Charters
- Authorities
- Compacts
- Uncodified Acts
- RIS Users (account required)
SEARCHABLE DATABASES
- Bills & Resolutions
session legislation - Bill Summaries
session summaries - Reports to the General Assembly
House and Senate documents - Legislative Liaisons
State agency contacts
ACROSS SESSIONS
- Subject Index: Since 1995
- Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
- Summaries: Since 1994
Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.
2004 SESSION
HJ 142 Norfolk and Portsmouth Cities; joint subcommittee to study consolidation.
Introduced by: Johnny S. Joannou | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Study; consolidation of the Cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility of the consolidation of the Cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee shall (i) review other models whereby localities were consolidated into a single city that operates under the strong mayor/council form of government; (ii) determine whether such a system, with a directly elected mayor, would be feasible in the two cities, to be phased in over a period of 10 to 20 years; (iii) examine the feasibility of permitting the consolidation of a particular city only upon a favorable vote by referendum in each such city; (iv) examine the feasibility of allowing the constitutional officers of each of the consolidating cities to retain their individual positions during an interim period of time or until the retirement of such an officer; and (v) explore an efficient method of eventually transferring the duties of such constitutional officers to a single office for the consolidated city.
Other issues to be examined by the joint subcommittee shall include (i) whether an amendment to the Constitution of Virginia will be required in order to implement a proposed consolidation; (ii) the means by which utility systems within the consolidating cities may be efficiently combined or coordinated so as to provide cost-effective and uninterrupted service to the region; (iii) the feasibility of phasing in a consolidated school system under the leadership of a single school board with each city being a separate school district; (iv) the feasibility of providing for oversight by an outside entity of new local debt of the consolidating cities during the transition period between the time of voter approval of the consolidation and the actual consolidation; and (v) the method by which the individual debts and obligations of the consolidating cities shall become the debts and obligations of the consolidated city.
FULL TEXT
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/04 044854352 pdf
- 02/16/04 House: Committee substitute printed 044875352-H1 pdf
- 03/10/04 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ142ER) pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/14/04 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/13/04 044854352
- 01/14/04 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/14/04 House: Reported from Rules with substitute (16-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/04 House: Committee substitute printed 044875352-H1
- 02/17/04 House: Taken up
- 02/17/04 House: Committee substitute agreed to 044875352-H1
- 02/17/04 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HJ142H1
- 02/17/04 House: Agreed to by House (80-Y 18-N)
- 02/17/04 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (80-Y 18-N)
- 02/17/04 House: Communicated to Senate
- 02/18/04 Senate: Reading waived
- 02/18/04 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 03/08/04 Senate: Reported from Rules with amendment by voice vote
- 03/09/04 Senate: Reading waived (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/09/04 Senate: VOTE: WAIVE READING (40-Y 0-N)
- 03/09/04 Senate: Read third time
- 03/09/04 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 03/09/04 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 03/09/04 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 03/09/04 Senate: Agreed to by Senate with amendment by voice vote
- 03/09/04 House: Placed on Calendar
- 03/10/04 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (88-Y 5-N)
- 03/10/04 House: VOTE: ADOPTION (88-Y 5-N)
- 03/10/04 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ142ER)