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2009 SESSION
Senator J. Chapman Petersen (D) - Senate District 34
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 323
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- (804) 698-7534
- email: district34@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 1066
- Fairfax, Virginia 22038
- (703) 349-3361
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 1727 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; created, report.
- HB 1856 Residential Property Disclosure Act; disclosure of stormwater detention facilities.
- HB 1858 Retirement System; locality may increase retirement allowance for its employees.
- HB 1859 Elected or appointed officials; limit attorney-issued subpoenas unless subject matter is unrelated.
- HB 1860 Impoundment of motor vehicle; provides if person driving without license was previously convicted.
- HB 1895 Estate tax; reinstates federal credit amount State would receive payments from deaths.
- HB 1990 George Mason University; board of visitors to enter in memorandum of agreement with Fairfax.
- HB 1993 Highway maintenance funds; requirements for Commonwealth Transportation Board in allocating.
- HB 1995 Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; adds Cities of Alexandria, etc., to use % of revenues.
- HB 2000 Electric utility rate structures; advancing conservation and efficiency.
- HB 2016 Abduction and kidnapping; definition.
- HB 2171 Agricultural waste; excludes any farm, etc., that owns & operates facilities within State.
- HB 2192 Virginia War Memorial; term killed in action to include any deployed active duty military personnel.
- HB 2195 Income tax; in-home health care tax credit.
- HB 2230 Highway construction allocations; Transportation Board allocate projects in Northern Virginia, etc.
- HB 2234 State agencies; prohibit companies that have certain business operations in Sudan from bidding.
- HB 2385 Discrimination; prohibited in public employment based on race, color, religion, etc.
- HB 2414 Military Family Relief Fund; provides calculating taxable income for individuals receiving benefits.
- HB 2433 Eastern Virginia Medical School; alters manner in which Board of Visitors is appointed.
- HJ 648 Constitutional amendment; property tax exemption for certain veterans (first reference).
- HJ 803 Commending the Friends of Vale Schoolhouse, Inc., on the occasion of its 75th anniversary.
- HJ 892 Celebrating the life of Thomas Vander Woude.
- HJ 898 Commending the Camelot Neighborhood Watch Program on the occasion of its 30th anniversary.
- HJ 926 Celebrating the life of Albert J. Boudreau.
- HJ 933 Commending Maud Robinson.
- HJ 974 Commending Robert S. Bowers, Jr.
- HJ 990 Commending Saint Mary of Sorrows Church on the occasion of its 150th anniversary
- HJ 994 Commending Equality Virginia on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
- HJ 1028 Commending the Vietnamese-American Voters Association, Inc.
- HJ 1029 Commending Gerry Connolly.
- HJ 1034 Celebrating the life of Flora M. Crater.
- SB 848 Elections; clarifications and revisions to registration and election processes.
- SB 936 Auditor of Public Accounts; duties, standard vendor accounting information to include certain info.
- SB 1054 License plates, special; issuance to supporters of Washington Capitals hockey team.
- SB 1058 Green roofs; authorizes counties, cities, and towns, by ordinance, to grant incentives, etc.
- SB 1097 Income tax, state; tax credit to employers for expenses incurred in allowing employees to telework.
- SB 1146 Biodiesel & green diesel; requires state public bodies to procure only diesel fuel containing 2%.
- SB 1295 Silvicultural activities; State Forester to inspect land to determine if activity causing pollution.
- SB 1338 Science and technology development and commercialization; promotion thereof in State.
- SB 1368 Highway systems; allocation of maintenance funds.
- SB 1496 Sentence credits; rate at which may be earned, prerequisites.
- SB 1501 Mental Retardation Medicaid Waiver, etc.; elimination of waiting lists.
- SJ 319 Home energy consumption; Housing Commission to study.
- 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 357 Rapid transit service network; continues mandate of study.
- SJ 389 Celebrating the life of William E. Fears.
- SJ 391 Celebrating the life of Leslie Funk Herdegen Rohrer.
- SJ 398 Celebrating the life of Joseph V. Gartlan, Jr.
- SJ 403 Celebrating the life of Ashley McIntosh.
- SJ 405 Commending the Virginia Tech football team as the Atlantic Coast Conference Champions.
- SJ 411 Oysters; sterile non-native; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to support responsible cultivation.
- SJ 427 Celebrating the life of Alvin P. Anderson.
- SJ 437 Commending Bruce Smith.
- SJ 440 Commending the Tuskegee Airmen.
- SJ 448 Commending the Virginia Economic Bridge on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
- SJ 455 Celebrating the accomplishments of the Virginia National Guard and Virginia Defense Force in 2008.
- SJ 478 Celebrating the life of William Edward Lavery.