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2009 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Rules

Chairman: Mary Margaret Whipple

Clerk: Susan Clarke Schaar/Patty Lung
Staff: Cheryl Jackson, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: February 6, 2009
Time and Place: 10:00 a.m. -- Senate Room A

S.B. 863

Patron: Edwards

TransDominion Express Commission.  Establishes the TransDominion Express Commission, to be responsible, within the TransDominion Corridor, for identifying needed construction, reconstruction, improvements of or repairs to railroads and their facilities and equipment to provide enhanced passenger rail service coordinated with freight rail opportunities within the corridor.

Impact Statements

S.B. 980

Patron: Wagner

Manufacturing Development Commission; sunset date.  Repeals the July 1, 2009, sunset date for the Manufacturing Development Commission. 

The bill would not affect a provision in the legislation that created the Commission that provides that the Commission will expire on July 1 of any fiscal year for which the Commission has not been funded through a separate appropriation in the Appropriation Act.

S.B. 981

Patron: Wagner

Manufacturing Development Commission.  Increases the size of the Commission to 14 members by adding a representative of Norfolk State University or Virginia State University as a member of the Commission.

S.B. 1016

Patron: Edwards

P-16 Education Council.  Makes the Governor's P-16 Education Council a permanent advisory council within the executive branch.

Impact Statements

S.B. 1036

Patron: Hanger

Rappahannock River Basin Commission; membership.  Removes the requirement that nonlegislative citizen members that serve as directors on the Rappahannock River Basin Commission are elected members of the local governing bodies or the Soil and Water Conservation Districts. The change would allow an individual who was appointed to a position with the local governing body or Soil and Water Conservation District to serve as a director on the Rappahannock River Basin Commission.

S.B. 1060

Patron: Puller

Joint Commission on Health Care.  Repeals provision sunsetting the Commission on July 1, 2010.

Impact Statements

S.B. 1249

Patron: Northam

Eastern Virginia Medical School. Alters the manner in which the Board of Visitors of the Eastern Virginia Medical School is appointed. Additional appointment power is granted to the Governor, the Speaker of the House, and the Senate Rules Committee.

Impact Statements

S.B. 1272

Patron: Vogel

Tax and fee legislation; sunset dates.  Requires a sunset date on all bills that add new taxes or fees or increase the rate of existing taxes or fees. The sunset dates would be required for both state and local tax or fee bills.

Impact Statements

S.B. 1399

Patron: Norment

The Virginia Commission for Allocating Funds to Nonstate Agencies.  Creates a commission in the legislative branch of government to apportion or allocate lump sum appropriations for nonstate entities among specific nonstate entities. The Commission would consist of three members of the Senate appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules, three members of the House of Delegates appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the Secretaries of Education, Health and Human Services, and Natural Resources, who would serve ex officio with voting privileges.

The bill would also provide that beginning January 1, 2010, all appropriations for nonstate entities would be made in a lump sum amount with no specific dollar amount of funding dedicated or otherwise allocated to any nonstate entity. The Commission would be responsible for apportioning the lump sum appropriation among nonstate entities.

Impact Statements

S.B. 1401

Patron: Norment

General Assembly; Budget Bill(s).  Requires the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee to issue reports concurrently with the budget conference report that specifically identify (i) any nonstate appropriation, (ii) any item in the conference report that was not included in the Budget Bill(s) as passed by either the House or the Senate, and (iii) any item that represents a piece of legislation that failed during that session in either house. 

Impact Statements

S.B. 1403

Patron: Norment

General Assembly; compensation during regular session extension.  Specifies that members of the General Assembly receive neither per diem allowance nor mileage reimbursement if the session is extended past the date scheduled for adjournment sine die.

S.B. 1453

Patron: Petersen

Commission on Civics Education.  Adds one nonlegislative citizen member, who must be a student that has successfully completed the Civics curriculum in his school division, to the membership of the Commission. This bill also extends the Commission to 2015. Currently, there are no student members serving on the Commission and the Commission expires on July 1, 2010.

Impact Statements

S.B. 1485

Patron: Wampler

Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission.  Provides that five of the ex officio members of the Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage Commission shall have voting privileges.  Currently, the Chairman of The Crooked Road, the Chairman of Round the Mountain; the Director of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, the Director of the Virginia Tourism Corporation, and the Executive Director of the Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, or their designees, serve on the Commission without voting privileges.

Impact Statements

S.J.R. 292

Patron: Martin

Study; funding of state cancer centers; report.  Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the benefits to the Commonwealth of appropriating additional funds for cancer research. The joint subcommittee shall (i) examine the sufficiency of current funding sources for both the Massey Cancer Center and the University of Virginia Cancer Center; (ii) review history and successes of cancer research at each center; (iii) explore benefits to the Commonwealth of expanding state support of both centers; and (iv) research additional funding opportunities for both centers.

S.J.R. 322

Patron: Puller

Study; waterfowl hunting; report. Establishes a six-member legislative subcommittee to study waterfowl hunting in urban and suburban areas.

S.J.R. 328

Patron: Herring

Study; establishing a joint subcommittee to study postelection audits of voting equipment; report.  Provides for an 11-member joint subcommittee to conduct a two-year study of the various forms of postelection audits and their costs and requirements.

S.J.R. 329

Patron: Herring

Study; GMU campus in Loudoun County; report.  Requests George Mason University, Loudon County, and the Town of Leesburg to study the feasibility of establishing a permanent campus of George Mason University in Loudon County. In conducting their study, they shall, in coordination with one another, (i) solicit proposals from interested parties to develop a permanent campus of George Mason University in Loudoun County based on the criteria established in the report "Planning for Enhanced Public Higher Education in Loudoun County" and (ii) evaluate all such proposals with input from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.

S.J.R. 337

Patron: Deeds

Resolution; federal grant funding.  Encourages the Commonwealth to seek additional federal grant funding for Virginia, and the assistance of the Department of Planning and Budget in helping state and local entities maximize federal grant funding opportunities.

S.J.R. 338

Patron: Barker

Study; state assistance for public school construction and renovation; report.  Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the level of state assistance to localities to assist with financing land acquisition, and the construction and renovation of school facilities. In conducting its study, the joint subcommittee must ascertain alternative methods of financing the construction and renovation of public school facilities in Virginia, including the feasibility of public-private partnerships. The joint subcommittee must report its findings and recommendations to the 2010 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

S.J.R. 341

Patron: Deeds

Study; establishing a joint subcommittee to study the conduct of certain public officials; report.  Establishes an 11-member joint subcommittee to evaluate the behavior of officials of the legislative and executive branches of state government and the related rules governing conflicts of interests, campaign finance, lobbying, and general rules of conduct.

S.J.R. 342

Patron: Marsh

Commemorating the Centennial of the NAACP.  Commemorates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's oldest civil rights organization.

S.J.R. 343

Patron: Marsh

Commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.  Commemorates the 200th anniversary of the birth of President Abraham Lincoln, and encourages the participation of the Commonwealth in the national and statewide commemorative programs and events. This resolution is a recommendation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission.

S.J.R. 345

Patron: Vogel

Resolution; encouraging the increased usage of recycling receptacles.  Encourages state and local governmental entities to increase the usage of recycling receptacles at public places and governmental facilities.

S.J.R. 346

Patron: Vogel

Study; joint subcommittee to study local government reorganization; report. Establishes a 15-member joint subcommittee to recommend methods for modernizing local government structure and organization. This is a two-year study.

S.J.R. 348

Patron: Obenshain

Study; reporting and remittance requirements for abandoned property; report.  Directs the Department of the Treasury to study the reporting and remittance requirements upon holders of property that is presumed abandoned. The Department is to complete its work by November 30, 2009.

S.J.R. 353

Patron: McEachin

Study; distribution of taxes to local governments; report.  Establishes a joint subcommittee to study the processes and the accuracy of the distribution of local taxes and state taxes collected by state entities for local governments.

S.J.R. 356

Patrons: Smith, Barker

Study; teenage driving; report.  Establishes a joint subcommittee to study teenage driving and ways to help teenagers become safer drivers.

S.J.R. 360

Patron: Stolle

Study; Use of judicial personnel; Report. Establishes a joint committee of the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice and the House Committee for Courts of Justice to study regular assignment of judicial personnel outside of established circuit boundaries.

S.J.R. 363

Patron: Martin

Study; Crime Commission; report.  Directs the Crime Commission to study criminal justice issues regarding the manufacture and use of false identification cards.

S.J.R. 387

Patron: Barker

Resolution; HOT lane contracts.  Expresses the sense of the General Assembly concerning contracts for the construction and operation of high-occupancy toll lane facilities.

S.J.R. 396

Patron: Obenshain

Recognizing the need to utilize scientific principles to address global warming and energy problems.  Recognizes the need to use scientific principles in developing a plan to remedy global warming and energy problems, and requests that the General Assembly use such principles when considering energy and environmental legislation.

S.J.R. 397

Patron: Northam

Virginia Marine Resources Commission; comprehensive registry of saltwater anglers; report.  Requests the Virginia Marine Resources Commission to examine the creation of a comprehensive registry of saltwater anglers in the Commonwealth and to determine whether changes must be made to the Commonwealth's saltwater recreational fishing license program to conform to the National Angler Registry requirements.

S.J.R. 411

Patron: Stuart

Supporting introduction of non-native oyster; resolution.  Encourages the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to support the introduction of genetically sterile non-native oysters as part of its management scheme.

S.J.R. 412

Patron: Newman

Resolution; Denouncing human trafficking.  Notes the General Assembly's concern regarding and repudiation of human trafficking in the Commonwealth, and requests the Governor to call upon local governments, law enforcement, and the people of the Commonwealth, through appropriate awareness programs and efforts, to work cooperatively to eradicate human trafficking in Virginia.

S.R. 20

Patron: Norment

Senate; Budget conference report.  Encourages timely communication and reports in the Senate of Virginia from any conference on the Budget Bill(s).