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2007 SESSION
Called to order at 12 m. by Lt. Governor William T. Bolling
Prayer offered by The Reverend Earnie R. Taylor, Union Chapel Baptist Church, Clarksville, Virginia
ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS: quorum present
Motion of Senator O'Brien dispensed with reading of Journal (39-Y 0-N)
COMMUNICATION FROM HOUSE (HN10122): reading waived (39-Y 0-N)
House bills passed: HB 1623, 1645, 1689, 1720, 1722, 1729, 1755, 1758, 1765, 1782, 1823, 1834, 1930, 1936, 1978, 2001, 2012, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2027, 2040, 2051, 2065, 2066, 2099, 2103, 2105, 2142, 2180, 2214, 2294, 2308, 2309, 2313, 2339, 2394, 2396, 2408, 2483, 2536, 2538, 2540, 2541, 2631, 2893, 3005
House joint resolution agreed to: HJR 730
House bills referred and joint resolution Laid on Clerk's Desk: see January 24 Senate Calendar
BILLS REPORTED
From Commerce and Labor: SB 745A, 897, 1014A, 1113, 1140S, 1152, 1285A, 1286A, 1303, 1317; HB 1657
From Finance: SB 813, 826, 850, 965, 975, 977, 1057, 1087, 1105, 1174S, 1175, 1265S
BILL REREFERRED
From Commerce and Labor: SB 1302 rereferred to Finance
MESSAGE FROM HOUSE: House agreed to HJR 795 (Election of a Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, Court of Appeals Judges, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, Members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission)
SJR 450 - offered by Senator Houck
Joint resolution laid on Clerk’s Desk under Senate Rules 11(b), (26)g and HJR 113: see January 24 Senate Calendar
On motion of Senator Stolle, the Senate recessed at 12:15 p.m. to reconvene at 12:17 p.m.
The Senate reconvened at 12:17 p.m.
HJR 795 - Rules suspended, taken up for immediate consideration (39-Y 0-N), reading waived, Stolle floor amendment agreed to, engrossed, agreed to (40-Y 0-N), House informed
SR 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46 offered by Senator Stolle
Resolutions presented, ordered printed and referred under Senate Rules 11(b)
MESSAGE FROM HOUSE: House agreed to Senate amendment to HJR 795
Joint Order pursuant to HJR 795
SR 41 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40-Y 0-N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 42 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40-Y 0-N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 43 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40-Y 0-N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 44 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40-Y 0-N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 45 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40-Y 0-N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 46 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40-Y 0-N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
House informed that nominations have been made pursuant to HJR 795
MESSAGE FROM HOUSE: Nominations have been made pursuant to HJR 795
ELECTION OF A JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF VIRGINIA , COURT OF APPEALS JUDGES, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES, GENERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIAL INQUIRY AND REVIEW COMMISSION
Supreme Court Justice (40-Y 0-N)
Lawrence L. Koontz Jr.
Court of Appeals Judges (40-Y 0-N)
Larry G. Elder
Robert P. Frank
Circuit Court Judges (40-Y 0-N)
First Judicial Circuit: Bruce H. Kushner
Second Judicial Circuit: Frederick B. Lowe
Third Judicial Circuit: Johnny E. Morrison
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit: Horace A. Revercomb III
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit: Marcus D. Williams
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit: R. Terrence Ney
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit: Charles J. Maxfield
Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit: J. Michael Gamble
Twenty-sixth Judicial Circuit: John E. Wetsel, Jr.
Thirtieth Judicial Circuit: Joseph R. Carico
Thirty-first Judicial Circuit: Richard B. Potter
General District Court Judges (40-Y 0-N)
Fourth Judicial District: Louis A. Sherman
Fourth Judicial District: Ray W. Dezern, Jr.
Fifth Judicial District: James A. Moore
Sixth Judicial District: Theodore J. Burr, Jr.
Sixth Judicial District: Kenneth W. Nye
Sixth Judicial District: Gammiel G. Poindexter
Tenth Judicial District: Robert G. Woodson, Jr.
Thirteenth Judicial District: Barbara J. Gaden
Fourteenth Judicial District: Archer L. Yeatts III
Sixteenth Judicial District: Robert H. Downer, Jr.
Seventeenth Judicial District: Karen A. Henenberg
Seventeenth Judicial District: Thomas J. Kelley, Jr.
Seventeenth Judicial District: Richard J. McCue
Twenty-first Judicial District: R. Morgan Armstrong
Twenty-fourth Judicial District: R. Edwin Burnette, Jr.
Twenty-fifth Judicial District: J. Gregory Mooney
Twenty-ninth Judicial District: Patrick R. Johnson
Thirtieth Judicial District: Chadwick S. Dotson
Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges (40-Y 0-N)
First Judicial District: Eileen A. Olds
Second Judicial District: Randall M. Blow
Third Judicial District: Alotha C. Willis
Eighth Judicial District: Jay E. Dugger
Eighth Judicial District: Robert B. Wilson V
Ninth Judicial District: Richard Y. AtLee
Twelfth Judicial District: Lynn S. Brice
Thirteenth Judicial District: J. Stephen Buis
Fifteenth Judicial District: J. Maston Davis
Sixteenth Judicial District: Dwight D. Johnson
Nineteenth Judicial District: Kimberly J. Daniel
Nineteenth Judicial District: Helen Leiner
Twentieth Judicial District: Avelina S. Jacob
Twenty-first Judicial District: Susan N. Deatherage
Twenty-third Judicial District: Joseph M. Clarke II
Twenty-fourth Judicial District: A. Ellen White
Twenty-fifth Judicial District: Anita D. Filson
Twenty-sixth Judicial District: William W. Sharp
Thirtieth Judicial District: Elizabeth S. Wills
Thirty-first Judicial District: Mary Grace O'Brien
Members of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission (40-Y 0-N)
Virginia L. Cochran
Martin A. Thomas
Larry D. Willis, Sr.
NOMINATED BUT NOT ELECTED
Circuit Court Judges (40-Y 0-N)
Eighth Judicial Circuit: William C. Andrews III
CALENDAR
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - SENATE
SJR 180 - passed by for the day
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING
Read third time
SB 735 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 740 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 755 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 815S - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 842S - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 856A - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 894 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 906 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 968 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 971 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 992 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1046 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1075 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1078 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1090 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1108 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1112 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1123 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1148 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1162 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1177 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1180S - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1184A - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1185 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1187 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1193S - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1211 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1225A - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1228 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1240 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1278 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1279 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1282 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1284 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1309 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1318 - passed block vote (40-Y 0-N)
SB 1053 - out of block, passed (37-Y 3-N)
SB 1138 - out of block, passed (39-Y 1-N)
SB 1280 - out of block, passed by for the day
SB 1281 - out of block, passed (39-Y 1-N)
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING
Read third time
SB 936 - passed (31-Y 9-N)
Reading of report waived (38-Y 1-N)
CALENDAR (continued)
SB 760A - rereferred to Finance
SB 1116S - passed (30-Y 10-N)
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON SECOND READING
Read second time
SB 790S - committee substitute agreed to, engrossed
SB 806S - Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources substitute rejected, Rehabilitation and Social Services substitute agreed to, engrossed
SB 887 - engrossed
SB 924 - engrossed
SB 953A - committee amendment(s) agreed to, engrossed
SB 984 - engrossed
SB 993S - committee substitute agreed to, engrossed
SB 1000 - engrossed
SB 1016S - committee substitute agreed to, engrossed
SB 1059 - engrossed
SB 1089 - engrossed
SB 1092A - committee amendment(s) agreed to, engrossed
SB 1153A - committee amendment(s) agreed to, engrossed
SB 1194 - engrossed
SB 1195 - engrossed
SB 1199 - engrossed
SB 1200 - engrossed
SB 1289S - committee substitute agreed to, engrossed
SB 1295A - committee amendment(s) agreed to, engrossed
SB 1312S - committee substitute agreed to, engrossed
SB 1330A - committee amendment(s) agreed to, engrossed
SB 961SA - Quayle floor substitute agreed to, out of block, Quayle floor amendment(s) agreed to, engrossed
SB 969 - out of block, passed by for the day
SB 1101S - out of block, passed by for the day
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE BILL ON SECOND READING
Read second time
SB 985 - engrossed
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON FIRST READING
SB 797 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 798S - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 882 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 943 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 997A - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1115 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1117S - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1233S - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1236 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1239 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1241A - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1300S - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1301S - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1313S - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1314 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1319 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1333S - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
SB 1339S - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N), passed by for day
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS ON THIRD READING
Read third time
SJR 352 - agreed to (22-Y 18-N)
SJR 307 - passed by for the day
SB 1422 - offered by Senator Lucas (unanimous consent to introduce by voice vote)
SB 1423 - offered by Senator Lucas (unanimous consent to introduce by voice vote)
SJR 451 - offered by Senator Bell
SJR 452 - offered by Senator Saslaw
Bills presented, ordered printed and referred/joint resolutions laid on Clerk’s Desk under Senate Rules 11(b), (26)g and HJR 113: see January 24 Senate Calendar
On motion of Senator Chichester, the Senate adjourned at 2:14 p.m. to convene Wednesday, January 24, 2007, at 12m.
KEY: A = AMENDMENT(S); S = SUBSTITUTE; SA = SUBSTITUTE WITH AMENDMENT(S)