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- HB 1635 General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; prohibits gifts made to legislators.
- HB 1641 Efficiency in Government Advisory Councils; established.
- HB 1720 Virginia Bicentennial of American War of 1812 Commission; extending time Commission may be funded.
- HB 1738 Conflicts of interests; expands period for former legislator, employees, etc. may not lobby.
- HB 1739 Ports, state; requires approval of Governor & General Assembly before change in ownership.
- HB 1893 Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program; may be used to cover costs of required fees.
- HB 1916 State song; designates Ol Virginia by Daniel K. Lawson to be adopted.
- HB 1952 Health Care, Joint Commission on; repeals provision sunsetting the Commission on July 1, 2012.
- HB 2134 State song; Virginia, Birth Place of Our Nation by Lorraine Neill & Lynn Czarny be adopted.
- HB 2234 State agencies; prohibit companies that have certain business operations in Sudan from bidding.
- HB 2278 Richlands Coal Miners' Memorial in Tazewell County; designating as official Coal Miners' Memorial.
- HB 2284 State song; designates 'Cradle of Liberty'.
- HB 2369 Prescription medication; Substance Abuse Services Council, to conduct 1 year study, report.
- HB 2370 Virginia's Future, Council on; assessment of the impact of prescription drug abuse.
- HB 2404 Virginia Universities Clean Energy Development and Economic Stimulus Foundation; created.
- HB 2433 Eastern Virginia Medical School; alters manner in which Board of Visitors is appointed.
- HB 2463 Government Efficiency Review Commission; established.
- HB 2546 Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; America's 400th Anniversary Commemoration, report.
- HB 2554 State song; designates The Banner Yet Wave written by Frank Pugh to be adopted.
- HB 2594 Vietnam Human Rights Day.
- HB 2617 Realignment Commission; created, report.
- HB 2671 Cabin Capital of Virginia; designating Page County thereas.
- HJ 621 Ethanol production; requests U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to grant temporary waiver.
- HJ 626 Motor fuel tax; joint subcommittee to study replacement with mileage-based fee.
- HJ 632 Human services & social policy; JLARC to study feasibility of adopting 'housing first' approach.
- HJ 635 Women's Heart Day; designating as May 17, 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 641 School choice programs; joint subcommittee to study programs for secondary school students.
- HJ 644 Kaine, Timothy M.; portrait to be painted, framed and placed in Capitol.
- HJ 653 PRODUCED in Virginia program; UVA School of Engineering & CVCC recognized for establishing.
- HJ 654 Higher Education, State Council of; to study establishing four year institution in Virginia Beach.
- HJ 658 Medical doctors; joint subcommittee to study current and impending severe shortage thereof.
- HJ 660 Career & technical education; joint subcommittee to study ways to increase in secondary schools.
- HJ 663 Windmill turbines; joint subcommittee to study efficacy of generating electricity therefrom.
- HJ 666 Adoptions, public agency; joint subcommittee to study.
- HJ 667 Infant mortality; joint subcommittee to study methods and practices for reducing in State.
- HJ 668 JLARC; directed to study legislative efficiency and recommend improvements.
- HJ 674 Older Virginians Mental Health Month; designating as September, 2009 and each year thereafter.
- HJ 675 Home energy consumption; Housing Commission directed to study.
- HJ 676 Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission; JLARC to conduct review.
- HJ 678 Classroom teachers; SCHEV Community College System to study shortage thereof.
- HJ 679 Children; joint subcommittee to study feasibility of establishing statewide minimum standards.
- HJ 680 Native Americans of Virginia; General Assembly to support establishment of commemorative commission.
- HJ 681 Corporate income tax system; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study.
- HJ 682 Residential electric consumption tax; Department of Taxation to examine implementation thereof.
- HJ 683 Retailers for Life Month; designating as April 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 684 Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week; designating as February 7-14, 2009, and each year.
- HJ 685 Commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.
- HJ 687 Highways; Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability to develop plan to toll certain.
- HJ 701 Government stores; ABC Board to study retail privatization thereof.
- HJ 702 Constitutional amendment; establishing Redistricting Commission (first reference).
- HJ 703 Waterfowl; joint subcommittee to study hunting in urban and suburban areas.
- HJ 704 Smart meter technologies; SCC to study advisability of increasing implementation in State.
- HJ 705 Higher education; joint subcommittee to study affordability in State.
- HJ 706 High school graduation; joint subcommittee to study ways to increase rate in State.
- HJ 707 Sheriffs' dispatchers offices; State Compensation Board to study pay grades to determine inequities.
- HJ 708 Pharmaceutical manufacturers; joint subcommittee to study feasibility of requiring gross receipts.
- HJ 711 Transportation Network of Hampton Roads, Joint Subcommittee studying; continued.
- HJ 712 Craney Island Eastward Expansion Project; U.S. Congress urged to appropriate its funds to construct.
- HJ 713 Compact fluorescent light bulb; Department of Environmental Quality to study impact of expanded use.
- HJ 714 Passenger and freight rail transportation programs; JLARC to study long-term funding needs of State.
- HJ 715 Disability History and Awareness Month; designating as October 2009, & each year therafter.
- HJ 716 Affordable housing; Department of Housing and Community Development and Taxation to jointly study.
- HJ 717 Native Americans; honoring their contributions to State, etc.
- HJ 718 Utility-scale energy; joint subcommittee to study generation from offshore winds and investment.
- HJ 719 Medicaid; joint subcommittee to study reducing costs by increasing efficiencies and reducing fraud.
- HJ 721 Waterfowl; joint subcommittee to study hunting in urban and suburban areas.
- HJ 722 Lyndhurst Station; recognized for its distinctive and historic place in State history.
- HJ 723 No Child Left Behind; Division of Legislative Services to collect data and information on impact.
- HJ 724 Constitutional amendment; limits appropriations in fiscal year to preceding year's (1st reference).
- HJ 727 Veterans; JLARC to study ways to reduce homelessness among those in State.
- HJ 730 Large animal veterinarians; Va.-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Med. to study shortage of.
- HJ 742 Poverty; joint subcommittee to study methods of reducing.
- HJ 754 Virginia Caregivers Week; designating as November 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 755 Will F. Jenkins Day; designating as June 27, 2009.
- HJ 770 Virginia's Transportation Needs, Commission on; created, report.
- HJ 771 Patient Advocate Day; designating as April 4, 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 783 Virginia's Rail Heritage Region; established to promote and encourage rail tourism.
- HJ 788 Day of Remembrance; designating April 21, 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 790 Inspector general, office of; joint subcommittee study need to establish to investigate fraud, etc.
- HJ 792 Assisted Living Awareness Day; designating September 15, 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 793 Deep Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month; designating March 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 823 Adolescent Well Health visit; recognizing importance thereof for health and well-being.
- HR 38 Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America; Congress urged to withdraw U.S. therefrom.
- HR 41 Adolescent well health visit; recognizing importance thereof for health and well-being.
- HR 61 State sovereignty; urging Congress to honor under tenth amendment of U. S. Constitution.
- SB 925 Grievance procedure; permits grievant to have a witness present during all stages.
- SB 980 Manufacturing Development Commission; repeals July 1, 2009, sunset date.
- SB 981 Manufacturing Development Commission; increases size to 14 members by adding a representative.
- SB 1036 Rappahannock River Basin Commission; membership.
- SB 1060 Health Care, Joint Commission on; shall expire on July 1, 2012.
- SB 1249 Eastern Virginia Medical School; alters manner in which Board of Visitors is appointed.
- SB 1485 Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission; provides that 5 ex officio members shall vote.
- SB 1504 Eastern Box Turtle; designating as official state reptile.
- SJ 274 Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week; designating as third week of September 2009.
- SJ 276 Medicine, Board of; JLARC to review effectiveness thereof in regulating practice of medicine.
- SJ 277 Tort claims brought against entities; JLARC to study costs incurred by State or its localities.
- SJ 292 Cancer research; joint subcommittee to study benefits to State of appropriating additional funds.
- SJ 303 Year of Astronomy; designating as year 2009.
- SJ 305 Steamboat Era Day; designating as Sept. 14, 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 313 Public schools; JLARC to study ways to promote and ensure early reading proficiency.
- SJ 314 Virginia's Rail Heritage Region; established to promote and encourage rail tourism.
- SJ 316 Surgeon General, State; Joint Commission on Health Care to study feasibility, etc. of establishing.
- SJ 318 Strategies & Models for Subtance Abuse Prevention & Treatment; Joint Subcommittee Studying.
- SJ 319 Home energy consumption; Housing Commission to study.
- SJ 321 Disability History and Awareness Month, designating as October 2009, and each succeeding year.
- SJ 322 Waterfowl; joint subcommittee to study hunting in urban and suburban areas.
- SJ 324 Multistate service corporations; joint committee of Senate and House Committees on Finance to study.
- SJ 325 Chronic diseases; Joint Commission on Health Care to study opportunities for early identification.
- SJ 328 Voting equipment; joint subcommittee to study postelection audits.
- SJ 329 George Mason University; GMU, Loudoun County and Town of Leesburg to study permanent campus.
- SJ 330 State Employee Total Compensation, Review of; joint subcommittee study findings prepared by JLARC.
- SJ 337 Federal grants; Department of Planning and Budget, etc., to advise State agencies thereof.
- SJ 338 Public schools; state assistance for construction and renovation, report.
- SJ 339 Individuals with life-threatening conditions; Joint Commission on Health Care to study.
- SJ 341 Public officials; joint subcommittee to study conduct of state legislative and executive branches.
- SJ 342 Commemorating the Centennial of the NAACP.
- SJ 343 Commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.
- SJ 345 Recycling receptacles; state and local governmental entities to increase usage thereof.
- SJ 346 Local government; joint subcommittee to study organization thereof.
- SJ 353 Local government; distribution of state and local taxes therefor.
- SJ 356 Teenage driving; joint subcommittee to study.
- SJ 357 Rapid transit service network; continues mandate of study.
- SJ 358 Hospital emergency rooms; Crime Commission to study issues of public safety.
- SJ 359 Operations of Circuit Court Clerks' Offices, Joint Subcommittee Studying; continued.
- SJ 360 Judicial personnel; joint committee of Senate and House Committee for Courts of Justice to study.
- SJ 362 Restorative justice; Crime Commission shall investigate legal and practical issues surrounding.
- SJ 363 False Identification cards; Crime Commission to study issues regarding apprehension and prosecution.
- SJ 373 American Cancer Society Day; designating as February 5, 2009, and each succeeding year.
- SJ 379 Hurricane Camille; designating as August 20, 2009, and day of remembrance of the 40th anniversary.
- SJ 392 National School Breakfast Week; designating as week of first Sunday in March 2009, and each year.
- SJ 401 Law Day; designating as May 1, 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 412 Human trafficking; notes General Assembly's concern regarding and repudiation thereof in State.
- SJ 431 Lawyer Professionalism Day; designating as April 13, 2009.