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2005 SESSION
Senator John S. Edwards (D) - Senate District 21
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 309
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-7521
- email: district21@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 1179
- Roanoke, Virginia 24006-1179
- (540) 985-8690
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- HB 1515 Transient occupancy tax; imposition in Craig County.
- HB 1667 Highway vehicles; definition.
- HB 1668 Game wardens; abolishes payment of salaries by Dickenson and Buchanan Counties.
- HB 1669 Deer; abolishes rifle hunting in Essex County.
- HB 1670 Hunting; abolishes unlawful rifles in Buckingham County.
- HB 1671 Firearms; prohibits person carrying on any part of highway.
- HB 1899 Charter; Town of New Castle.
- HB 2361 Nursing homes; guidelines for staffing.
- HB 2599 Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemptions include public transportation services.
- HB 2640 General Provisions of Code, and Boundaries, Jurisdiction and Emblems of State; recodification.
- HB 2850 Veterans' Care Center; Governor to request federal funds to expand capacity of beds.
- HB 2851 Veterans; Commiss. of Dept. of Veterans Serv. to appoint personnel to process benefit claims weekly.
- HJ 527 Constitutional amendment; Highway and Transportation Trust Funds continued (first reference).
- HJ 708 No Child Left Behind; memorializing Congress to amend to include waiver about school accountability.
- HJ 802 Celebrating the life of Charles Hardaway Marks.
- HJ 807 Commending Flora Davis Crittenden.
- HJ 821 General Assembly; requesting 2006 Inaugural Ceremonies be held in Williamsburg.
- HJ 836 Commending the James Madison University football team.
- HJ 842 On the death of Archibald A. Campbell.
- HJ 853 Commending the Virginia National Guard.
- HJ 876 Commending the Texas Tavern on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.
- HJ 910 Commending Claudia A. Whitworth.
- HJ 914 Commending Mary Taylor Christian, former member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
- HJ 917 Celebrating the life of Charles Ray Hill, Sr.
- HJ 926 Commending Caitlin Halpern.
- HJ 988 Celebrating the life of Jay Evans Sears.
- HJ 991 Celebrating the life of Grace Meredyth Lovegrove.
- HJ 1011 Celebrating the life of Dorothy Budge Callahan.
- HJ 1020 Commending Rotary International on the occasion of its centennial.
- SB 128 Unemployment compensation; eliminates offset for retirement benefits.
- SB 456 Abortion; contraception not to constitute.
- SB 701 Pearl Harbor Memorial Flyway; designating portion of Route 95 in Fairfax County.
- SB 778 Interstate Route 81 Corridor Multistate Transportation Planning Initiative; created.
- SB 1023 Persons with mental illness, mental retardation or substance abuse; recodification of Title 37.1.
- SB 1191 Indoor Clean Air Act; smoking restrictions, civil penalty.
- SB 1202 Master Settlement Agreement; release of escrow funds to certain cigarette manufacturers.
- SB 1257 Tuition; restricted annual increase for resident students.
- SB 1285 Teachers; salary to equal or surpass nat'l. average for those in public schools, annual evaluation.
- SB 1288 War Orphans Education Act; created.
- SB 1324 Commonwealth Transit Capital Fund; renamed Transit Partnership Fund.
- SB 1338 Health insurance; coverage for certain persons.
- SJ 332 Rotary Day in Virginia.
- SJ 351 Celebrating the life of William Brockenbrough Graham.
- SJ 353 Celebrating the life of Louise B. Carter.
- SJ 354 Celebrating the life of Monroe Everett Harris, Sr.
- SJ 355 Celebrating the life of Jona Winfield Harris McKee.
- SJ 356 Celebrating the life of Herbert Hoover Robinson.
- SJ 372 Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Virginians with Disabilities Act.
- SJ 388 Code Commission; reorganizing and renumbering of 1950 Code and publication.
- SJ 402 Public schools; Dept. of Education to study best educational practices and programs for use therein.
- SJ 435 On the death of Jonah T. Shropshire.
- SJ 445 On the death of William M. Hutchens, Jr.
- SJ 452 Celebrating the life of Bronwyn Hughes Lambelet.
- SJ 453 Commending Ted Keller.
- SJ 469 Celebrating the life of Captain Mark N. Stubenhofer.
- SJ 470 Celebrating the life of Martha Brown DeBord.
- SJ 494 Celebrating the life of Dorothy Callahan.
- SJ 507 Commending Brigadier General Walter L. Davis.
- SJ 509 Celebrating the life of Hunter Booker Andrews.
- SJ 511 Memorial resolution; Dr. Edgar Allen Toppin.
- SJ 513 Resolution; celebrating the life of United States Army Private First Class Leslie D. Jackson.
- SJ 514 Resolution; commending Virginia's student winners of the National Education Association and Virginia
- SJ 524 Celebrating the life of Corporal Jonathan Williams Bowling.
- SR 38 Celebrating the life of Robert J. Zangas.
- SR 41 On the death of Judge Robert R. Merhige, Jr.
- SR 42 Resolution; commending the plaintiffs, attorneys, and other civil rights giants who pioneered effort
- SR 45 Commending Dr. Edward L. Kelly.