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Senate Committee on Rules
Subcommittee #1

Edwards (Chairman), Puckett, Quayle

Clerk: Susan Clarke Schaar/Patty Lung
Staff: Cheryl Jackson, Brenda Edwards
Date of Meeting: March 2, 2010
Time and Place: 10:00 a.m. 4th Floor East

H.B. 4

Patron: Wright

Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee. Removes the cap on reappointments for nonlegislative citizen members of the Roanoke River Basin Advisory Committee. Currently, nonlegislative citizen members may only be reappointed to three consecutive two-year terms.

H.B. 122

Patron: Purkey

Conflicts of interests; "revolving door" prohibitions. Expands the period during which a former legislator or certain former state and local government officers and employees may not lobby from one to two years.

H.B. 193

Patron: Cosgrove

Aerospace Advisory Council.  Removes the sunset provision, thereby making the Aerospace Advisory Council a permanent council.

H.B. 428

Patron: Griffith

Bills required to be introduced by first day of a session. Repeals the provisions requiring the following types of bills to be filed no later than the first day of a legislative session: charter, claims, optional county form of government, corrections impact, local fiscal impact, sales tax exemption, and Virginia Retirement System.

H.B. 524

Patron: Nixon

Secretary of the Commonwealth; lobbyist disclosure.  Redesigns the Lobbyist’s Disclosure Statement to clarify information requested and increase compliance. Among other things, the redesigned form requires a lobbyist to include a list of all House of Delegates or Senate bills for which he has lobbied and changes the manner in which entertainment and gift expenses are reported. The bill also provides that a lobbyist who files the statement electronically is not required to provide a paper copy. In addition, the bill provides that the Secretary of the Commonwealth shall review the lobbyist disclosure statements for completeness and accuracy and if a statement is not properly completed, the entire filing will be rejected and returned to the lobbyist. The lobbyist must submit a revised statement within 30 days from receipt of the returned statement.

H.B. 589

Patron: Landes

Virginia Code Commission.  Expands the Commission membership by one or two optional nonlegislative citizens, as may be recommended by the Commission. Those members must have demonstrated legal knowledge in the codification of session laws and the recodification of statutes. Both are to receive the same compensation and privileges as other members of the Commission.

H.B. 604

Patron: Merricks

Center for Rural Virginia Board of Trustees; membership. Adds the Lieutenant Governor and the Secretary of Commerce and Trade or their designees to the membership of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Rural Virginia.

H.B. 617

Patron: Lohr

House and Senate Ethics Advisory Panels; proceedings. Provides that once the House or Senate Ethics Advisory Panel has initiated an investigation into the conduct of a legislator, it must complete its inquiry, report its findings, and dispose of the matter as provided by law, notwithstanding the resignation of the legislator from the General Assembly, or the completion of such legislator's term,during the course of the Panel's work. This bill incorporates HB 330 (Plum), HB 643 (Armstrong), and HB 816 (Abbott).

H.B. 655

Patron: Armstrong

General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; House and Senate Ethics Advisory Panels. Revises the process for the appointment of House Panel members and provides for public hearings during an ethics investigation if the Panel determines the complaint is credible and for public access to House Panel proceedings. The bill makes other revisions applicable to both Panels. This bill incorporates HB 644 (Armstrong), HB 657 (Armstrong), and HB 814 (Abbott).

H.B. 676

Patron: May

Aerospace Advisory Council. Removes the sunset on the Aerospace Advisory Council and adds three nonlegislative citizen members to the Council. In addition to advising the Governor, the Council shall advise the Joint Commission on Technology and Science, and the Secretaries of Technology, Commerce and Trade, and Education, on policy and funding priorities with respect to aerospace development, workforce training, and educational programs and curriculum. Nonlegislative citizen members are to serve without compensation or reimbursement for travel expenses.

H.B. 740

Patron: Janis

General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disclosure of salary.  Requires a member of the General Assembly to disclose in his annual disclosure of personal interests any salary and wages in excess of $10,000 paid to him or his immediate family for employment with a state or local government or advisory agency, except for his salary received as a member of the General Assembly.

H.B. 778

Patron: LeMunyon

Publication of House and Senate voting records. Provides that, beginning with the 2011 Regular Session of the General Assembly, the Legislative Support Commission, through the Division of Legislative Automated Systems, from information and data provided by the Clerk of the House and the Clerk of the Senate, must post on the legislative electronic information system (LIS) the recorded committee, subcommittee, and floor votes of each member of the General Assembly on legislation acted upon in each house. The information pertaining to the voting records of legislative members must be electronically accessible to state agencies, political subdivisions, and the public.

H.B. 933

Patron: Bell, Robert B.

General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; disposition of cases.  Provides that if the Senate or House Ethics Advisory Panel refers a case to the member's respective house based on the conclusion that the member has violated § 30-108 (failing to disqualify himself from taking part in an official action of the General Assembly on a matter in which he has a personal interest) or subsection C of § 30-110 (failing to disclose such personal interest), and the respective house determines that such a violation was made knowingly, the house shall refer the matter to the Attorney General for possible prosecution. Currently, the house may refer the matter to the Attorney General, but is not required to do so.

H.B. 1023

Patron: Hugo

Telecommuting; employees of agencies within the legislative branch of state government.  Requires the head of each agency within the legislative branch of state government to adopt a telecommuting and alternative work schedule policy for eligible employees. The policy shall authorize voluntary participation in telecommuting and alternative work schedule programs for up to eight days per month, provided such participation does not diminish employee performance or service delivery. The head of each legislative agency may authorize participation for more than eight days per month. No policy adopted pursuant to this Act shall authorize participation in either program during any session or special session of the General Assembly. The Capitol Police are exempt from the requirements of this Act.

H.B. 1053

Patron: Armstrong

Staffing for certain legislative study commissions.  Provides that staffing support for the Virginia State Crime Commission, the Joint Commission on Health Care, the Virginia Commission on Youth, and the Virginia Housing Commission will be provided by the Division of Legislative Services and Clerks Offices of the General Assembly.

H.B. 1227

Patron: Dance

Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program.  Provides that scholarships awarded through the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Program may be used to cover the costs of professional degree programs and mandatory fees. This bill also clarifies that awards may be granted for part-time or full-time attendance in approved education programs for no more than the minimum number of credit hours required to complete the program requirements. The bill makes certain clarifying technical amendments to facilitate the Committee's work. This bill is a recommendation of the Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Awards Committee.

H.J.R. 25

Patron: Putney

Designating the Virginia Rail Heritage Region in the Commonwealth.  Designates the Virginia Rail Heritage Region in the Commonwealth, consisting of the Counties of Allegheny, Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Campbell, and Roanoke, and the Cities of Bedford, Covington, Lynchburg, Roanoke, and Salem, as well as the Towns of Buchanan, Clifton Forge, Troutville, Amherst, Iron Gate, and Vinton.

H.J.R. 32

Patron: Tyler

Recognition of the Nottoway Indian Tribe.  Recognizes the existence of the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia within the Commonwealth and grants the Nottoway Indian Tribe of Virginia, Incorporated, representation on the Virginia Council on Indians.

H.J.R. 52

Patron: Sherwood

Designating Hurricane Awareness and Preparedness Week in Virginia. Designates the last week of May, in 2010 and in each succeeding year, as Hurricane Awareness and Preparedness Week in Virginia.

H.J.R. 68

Patron: Rust

Study; tolling of highways; report.  Directs the Joint Commission on Transportation Accountability to develop a plan to toll certain highways.

H.J.R. 138

Patron: McQuinn

Preservation of Lumpkin's Slave Jail and slave burial ground. Encourages the preservation of the historic site of Lumpkin's Slave Jail and Burial Ground for Negroes in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom, and encourages the Governor to help promote the preservation of the historic sites.

H.J.R. 161

Patron: Oder

Recognizing the services provided by nonprofit employment services organizations, vended through the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services through the Virginia Public Procurement Act.

H.J.R. 171

Patron: Tyler

Recognition of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe. Extends state recognition of the Cheroenhaka (Nottoway) Indian Tribe of Southampton County, Virginia.

H.J.R. 182

Patron: Howell, W.J.

Recognizing the important contributions of philanthropy and private foundations and encouraging the formation and creation of these entities in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

H.J.R. 275

Patron: Carrico

Memorial at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.  Recognizes the 63rd Virginia Infantry/54th Virginia Infantry Descendants Association as Virginia’s agent to fund and erect a monument to the Virginia Confederate soldiers at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.