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2005 SESSION
Senator Mary Margaret Whipple (D) - Senate District 31
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 430
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: district31@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- 3556 North Valley Street
- Arlington, Virginia 22207-4445
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 1795 Menhaden fishery; Marine Resources Commission may adopt regulations governing.
- HB 1947 Agricultural Enterprise Act of 2005; created, reports.
- HB 1968 Parking; allows Fairfax County and towns within its boundaries to regulate.
- HB 2028 Mopeds; regulation by local ordinances.
- HB 2029 Nonindigenous aquatic nuisance species; prohibited without permit, penalty.
- HB 2030 Income tax, state; credit for stay-at-home parents.
- HB 2116 Human rights; prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in Fairfax County.
- HB 2230 Mopeds; regulation in Northern Virginia Planning District.
- HB 2635 Deferred real estate tax; allows locality to establish interest rate.
- HB 2636 Absentee ballots; no qualification for voters to use.
- HB 2637 Certificate for Driving; issuance to persons unable to establish legal presence.
- HB 2638 Wages; employer who fails or refuses to pay wages is guilty of embezzlement.
- HB 2674 Bad checks; payment of wages, penalty.
- HB 2677 Pedestrian and bicycle regional advisory committees; VDOT to establish program therefor.
- HB 2720 Manufactured homes; change in provisions that allow to be considered new.
- HB 2724 Prisoner visitation; requiring Dept. of Corrections to provide for child friendly visitors rooms.
- HB 2725 Jails; Sec. of Public Safety to establish system for coordinating offender transitional services
- HB 2726 Prisoners; required records to be provided to upon release.
- HB 2727 Campaign finance disclosure; record retention requirements and reviews thereof, report.
- HB 2758 Early voting; provides that any qualified registered voter may vote at specified times and places.
- 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.
- HB 2876 Address Confidentiality Program; established to protect victims of domestic violence.
- HB 2912 Teachers; school boards to provide sick leave for those w/debilitating or life-threatening illness.
- HJ 740 Commending the Arlington Community Action Program on its 40th anniversary.
- HJ 802 Celebrating the life of Charles Hardaway Marks.
- HJ 807 Commending Flora Davis Crittenden.
- HJ 820 Constitutional amendment; exempts dwellings designed for continuous habitation (first reference).
- HJ 836 Commending the James Madison University football team.
- HJ 848 On the death of Johnny Lane Oates.
- HJ 853 Commending the Virginia National Guard.
- HJ 867 Commending Celebrate 350: Jewish Life in America 1654-2004.
- HJ 894 Commending The Arlington Community Temporary Shelter.
- HJ 914 Commending Mary Taylor Christian, former member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
- HJ 918 Celebrating the life of Judge Thomas Randolph Monroe.
- HJ 926 Commending Caitlin Halpern.
- HJ 946 Celebrating the life of Chief Petty Officer Joel Egan Baldwin.
- HJ 950 Commending the Fairfax County Branch of the NAACP on the occasion of its 90th anniversary.
- HJ 961 Commending Walter L. Mess.
- HJ 964 Commending the Arlington Arts Center.
- HJ 985 On the death of James S. Elkin.
- HJ 988 Celebrating the life of Jay Evans Sears.
- HJ 996 Commending the Wakefield High School boys' basketball team.
- HJ 1011 Celebrating the life of Dorothy Budge Callahan.
- HJ 1017 Commending L. Karen Darner.
- HJ 1020 Commending Rotary International on the occasion of its centennial.
- SB 128 Unemployment compensation; eliminates offset for retirement benefits.
- SB 805 Prisoners; good conduct allowance, mandatory functional literacy requirement.
- SB 929 Blue Star Memorial Highway; designating as Route 1 in Fairfax County.
- SB 1074 County manager plan; adds items for which Arlington County may charge application processing fee.
- SB 1075 Zoning; transfer of development rights.
- SB 1078 Death penalty; restricted to those 18 years or age or older.
- SB 1105 Retail Sales & Use Tax; exemptions include certain nonprofit edu. institutions for purchase of ser.
- SB 1259 Midwifery; licensure.
- SB 1288 War Orphans Education Act; created.
- SB 1324 Commonwealth Transit Capital Fund; renamed Transit Partnership Fund.
- SJ 300 Commending the Virginia Tech football team.
- SJ 332 Rotary Day in Virginia.
- SJ 343 Clean Air Act; Dept. of Environmtl. Qual. to study effect of trees & forests on ambient ozone level.
- SJ 374 Commending the W. T. Woodson High School football team.
- SJ 398 Commending Frank Beamer.
- SJ 401 Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office.
- 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 464 Commending the Rotary Club of Alexandria on the occasion of its 77th anniversary.
- SJ 469 Celebrating the life of Captain Mark N. Stubenhofer.
- SJ 494 Celebrating the life of Dorothy Callahan.
- SJ 504 Celebrating the life of Verna M. Vance.
- SJ 505 Celebrating the life of Emma Jean Budd.
- SJ 506 Commending Alan E. Mayer.
- 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.