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- HB 51 Immigration laws; immunity to State agencies and employees, etc. for authorized enforcement.
- HB 55 English; designating as official language of State.
- HB 1238 Realignment Commission; created, report.
- HB 1558 Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence of contractors for employment.
- HB 1641 Efficiency in Government Advisory Councils; established.
- HB 1739 Ports, state; requires approval of Governor & General Assembly before change in ownership.
- HB 1916 State song; designates Ol Virginia by Daniel K. Lawson to be adopted.
- 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 2284 State song; designates 'Cradle of Liberty'.
- HB 2370 Virginia's Future, Council on; assessment of the impact of prescription drug abuse.
- HB 2554 State song; designates The Banner Yet Wave written by Frank Pugh to be adopted.
- HB 2617 Realignment Commission; created, report.
- 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 641 School choice programs; joint subcommittee to study programs for secondary school students.
- 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 675 Home energy consumption; Housing Commission directed to study.
- HJ 676 Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission; JLARC to conduct review.
- HJ 679 Children; joint subcommittee to study feasibility of establishing statewide minimum standards.
- HJ 682 Residential electric consumption tax; Department of Taxation to examine implementation thereof.
- 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 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 712 Craney Island Eastward Expansion Project; U.S. Congress urged to appropriate its funds to construct.
- HJ 714 Passenger and freight rail transportation programs; JLARC to study long-term funding needs of State.
- 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 727 Veterans; JLARC to study ways to reduce homelessness among those in State.
- HJ 742 Poverty; joint subcommittee to study methods of reducing.
- HJ 770 Virginia's Transportation Needs, Commission on; created, report.
- HJ 790 Inspector general, office of; joint subcommittee study need to establish to investigate fraud, etc.
- 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 768 Conditional zoning; replaces cash proffer system with system of impact fees.
- SB 925 Grievance procedure; permits grievant to have a witness present during all stages.
- 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 313 Public schools; JLARC to study ways to promote and ensure early reading proficiency.
- SJ 316 Surgeon General, State; Joint Commission on Health Care to study feasibility, etc. of establishing.
- SJ 319 Home energy consumption; Housing Commission to study.
- 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 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 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 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 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 431 Lawyer Professionalism Day; designating as April 13, 2009.