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- HB 4 Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee; removes cap on reappointments for nonlegislative citizens.
- HB 42 Transportation programs; JLARC to administer a performance audit, report.
- HB 193 Aerospace Advisory Council; removes July 1, 2010, sunset provision.
- HB 199 MEI Project Approval Commission; expands scope of incentive packages to be reviewed.
- HB 428 Legislative bills; repeals provisions requiring certain bills to be filed on first day of session.
- HB 589 Code Commission; expands membership.
- HB 604 Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership.
- HB 655 Conflicts of Interests Act; revisions applicable to House and Senate Ethics Advisory Panels.
- HB 664 Commissioner of accounts; prohibiting General Assembly members from serving.
- HB 676 Aerospace Advisory Council; adds five members, powers and duties.
- HB 740 General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure of salary.
- HB 933 General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disposition of cases.
- HB 1227 Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program; those awarded may be used to cover certain costs.
- HJ 25 Virginia Rail Heritage Region; designating various counties, cities, and towns to be included.
- HJ 27 Health care, indigent; Joint Commission on Health Care to study.
- HJ 32 Nottoway Indian Tribe; State extends recognition and grants representation on VCI.
- HJ 50 Textile Heritage Week; designating as first week of September 2010, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 52 Hurricane Awareness and Preparedness Week; designating as last week of May 2010.
- HJ 56 Virginia Cancer Plan Action Coalition; requested to report changes to Governor, etc.
- HJ 60 School divisions; JLARC to study those contracting collectively in certain areas of procurement.
- HJ 82 Health care homes, chronic; Joint Commission on Health Care to study feasibility of developing.
- HJ 90 Nursing homes; DHP to study advisability of permitting use of medication aides.
- HJ 95 Virginia Farm-to-School Week; designating as second full week of November 2010.
- HJ 97 Children; Crime Commission to study penalties for taking indecent liberties involving minors.
- HJ 99 Health insurance coverage, catastrophic; Joint Commission on Health Care to study options.
- HJ 101 Virginia Workplace Readiness Skills and test; Board of Education to approve revised version, report.
- HJ 121 Gas & Oil Act; Coal & Energy Commission to study ownership rights of coalbed methane & natural gas.
- HJ 126 Interstate safety rest areas; Virginia Transportation Research Council to study.
- HJ 127 Medicaid; JLARC to study program to identify opportunity to reduce waste, etc.
- HJ 130 Standard software package; Sec. of Tech. to study feasibility of developing for local governments.
- HJ 132 Senior citizens; SHHR to establish mechanism to facilitate coordination & access to service thereto.
- HJ 133 Mammograms, yearly; Health Commissioner to promote as an effective tool in breast cancer prevention.
- HJ 134 Transportation Network of Hampton Roads, Joint Subcommittee Studying; continued.
- HJ 135 Development and Land Use Tools in State's Localities, Joint Subcommittee Studying; continued.
- HJ 136 Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day; designating as March 30, 2010, & each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 137 Honor and Remember Flag; State's emblem of service and sacrifice by members of U.S. Armed Forces.
- HJ 138 Lumpkin's Slave Jail and Slave Burial Ground for Negroes; encourages preservation of historic site.
- HJ 150 Patawomeck Indian Tribe; General Assembly to extend state recognition & representation on VCI.
- HJ 156 National Earned Income Tax Credit Awareness Day; designating as January 29, 2010.
- HJ 161 Nonprofit employment service organizations; recognizing services thereof vended through DRS.
- HJ 171 Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe; General Assembly to extend state recognition thereto, etc.
- HJ 182 Philanthropy and private foundations; recognizing and encouraging formation & creation of entities.
- HJ 190 Teen Organ Donation Awareness Day; designating as April 9, 2010, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 195 Lupus Awareness Month; designating as May 2010, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 198 Youth Fitness Day; designating as April 25, 2010, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 203 Joint Rules Committee and Speaker of House of Delegates; confirming appointments.
- HJ 259 American Heart Month; designating as February 2010, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 275 Virginia Confederate soldiers; memorial at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.
- HJ 341 Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week; designating as second week of March 2010, & each year thereafter.
- SB 23 Aerospace Advisory Council; powers and duties, membership.
- SB 101 Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission; DLS shall provide legal and research services.
- SB 118 Conflict of interest disclosure forms; shall be posted on website of clerk for five years.
- SB 184 MEI Project Approval Commission; shall review financing for individual incentive packages, etc.
- SB 186 General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; House or Senate Ethics Advisory Panel investigations.
- SB 201 JLARC; shall administer an operational/programmatic performance audit on transportation programs.
- SB 241 Open Education Curriculum Board; established.
- SB 267 Energy and Environment, Commission on; responsibility to review, etc., impacts of energy production.
- SB 317 Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee; removes cap on reappointments for nonlegislative citizens.
- SB 350 Centennial of Woodrow Wilson's Presidency, Virginia Commission on; established.
- SB 469 P-16 Education Council; established, reports.
- SB 473 Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership.
- SB 512 General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure of salary.
- SB 515 Budget bill; required reports from House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees.
- SB 516 Electric Utility Regulation, Commission on; extends sunset provision.
- SB 553 Increase transit use strategies; Secretary of Transportation to report annually to General Assembly.
- SB 707 Autism Advisory Council; created, report.
- SJ 11 Commemorative commission; established to recommend monument to honor contributions of women.
- SJ 12 Nottoway Indian Tribe; extending state recognition thereto and grants representation on VCI.
- SJ 21 Tax preferences; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study effectiveness.
- SJ 23 Professional Social Work Month; designating as March 2010, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 26 Public schools and families; joint subcommittee to study effects of economic recession in State.
- SJ 31 Public schools; JLARC to study reading proficiency among third graders.
- SJ 32 Community colleges & higher educational institution, etc.; JLARC to study role of SOE in improving.
- SJ 35 Tidal shoreline management; Virginia Institute of Marine Science to study.
- SJ 42 Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day; designating as March 30, 2010, & each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 45 Adults and children with disabilities; DSS to conduct program on identifying abuse, neglect, etc.
- SJ 50 Virginia Workplace Readiness Skills and test; Board of Education to approve revised version, report.
- SJ 63 DRPT; study funding of high-speed and intercity passenger rail operations in State.
- SJ 65 Youth Art Month; designating as March 2010, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 73 Strategy & Model for Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment, Joint Subcommittee Studying; continued.
- SJ 74 Substance abuse treatment services; Bureau of Insurance of SCC to collect data, etc., on, report.
- SJ 75 Prescription Monitoring Program; DHP to collect data about utilization by prescribers & dispensers.
- SJ 80 Nursing homes; DHP to study advisability of permitting use of medication aides.
- SJ 85 Childhood obesity; encouraging physical activity in public schools to reduce.
- SJ 87 Kindergarteners; Department of Education to study dyslexia screening therefor.
- SJ 89 Development and Land Use Tools in State's Localities, Joint Subcommittee Studying; continued.
- SJ 94 Motor fuels tax; Virginia Transportation Research Council to study desirability, etc., of replacing.
- SJ 98 Regional rapid transit network; continues mandate of study.
- SJ 99 Interstate safety rest areas; Virginia Transportation Research Council to study public funding.
- SJ 124 Healthy Youth Day; designating as January 20, 2010.
- SJ 127 Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe; extending state recognition thereto, representation on VCI.
- SJ 147 General Assembly; joint committee of Senate and House to be established to study ethic issues.
- SJ 149 General Assembly; support revocation of State's consent to transfer of Jens Soering.
- SJ 164 Philanthropy and private foundations; recognizing and encouraging formation & creation of entities.
- SJ 205 Senate Committee on Rules; confirming appointments.
- SR 10 Investment portfolio managed by Retirement System; Senate Committee on Finance to study.