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- HB 45 General Assembly; continuance of case.
- HB 79 Disability Commission; establishing work groups to assist in carrying out powers and duties, etc.
- HB 349 Virginia Bicentennial of American War of 1812 Commission; extends time Commission may be funded.
- HB 550 Agency reports; submission in written or electronic format.
- HB 739 Virginia College Savings Plan; JLARC to oversee and evaluate, report.
- HB 777 Evaluate Tax Preferences, Joint Subcommittee to; established, report.
- HB 810 Transportation Accountability, Joint Commission on; admin. staff support by House Clerk's Office.
- HB 1034 Interstate agreements, certain; State withdrawal from Southern Growth Policies Agreement.
- HB 1229 Persons with disabilities; SHHR to convene work group to develop plan to address needs.
- HJ 5 General Assembly; establishing schedule for conduct of business for 2012 Session.
- HJ 6 General Assembly; establishes schedule for prefiling period for 2013 Session.
- HJ 50 Flooding; Institute of Marine Science to study strategies to prevent in Tidewater localities.
- HJ 65 Sesquicentennial of Emancipation Proclamation; recognizing African American members.
- HJ 85 Income tax credits, partnerships, etc.; House & Senate to study multiplier effects of various types.
- HJ 91 National Women's History Museum; Congress to support establishing in Washington, D.C.
- HJ 92 Value-added tax; memorializing members of Va. Delegation of Congress of United States to oppose.
- HJ 93 Local Government Education Week; designating as first week in April 2012, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 94 School prayer and prayer in public meetings, public voluntary; urges Congress to propose amendment.
- HJ 96 Summer flounder; Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to allow options for harvest.
- HJ 97 Regional higher education centers; SCHEV to study management and structure.
- HJ 98 First Lady Edith Bolling Wilson Day; designating as October 15, 2012, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 105 Virginia Cider Week; designating full week before Thanksgiving 2012, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 107 Hold Out for Hunger Day; designating as April 14, 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 108 Higher educational institutions; JLARC to study cost efficiency and opportunities to reduce cost.
- HJ 111 Court of Appeals of Virginia; Judicial Council of Virginia to study jurisdictional capacity.
- HJ 120 Mesothelioma Awareness Day; designating as September 26, 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 124 Public Safety Memorial; requests Governor to include names of state and local parole officers, etc.
- HJ 128 Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week; designating third week in April 2013, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 132 Homeland security and emergency management; JLARC to study planning & preparedness efforts in State.
- HJ 142 Asian Lunar New Year Day; designates day designated as new year on Asian lunar calendar 2012.
- HJ 143 Spay Day; designating February 28, 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 144 Small Business Day; designating as September 21, 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 145 Preeclampsia Month; designating as May 2012, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 148 Turkey, Government of; General Assembly to encourage to grant certain right to Ecumenical Patriarch.
- HJ 216 X & Y Chromosomal Variation Awareness Month; designating as May 2012, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 226 Chincoteague, Town of; U.S. Department of Interior urged to oppose federal purchase of land.
- HJ 227 National energy policy; urging President of U.S. and Congress of U.S. to adopt.
- HJ 230 Wilson, Edith Bolling; General Assembly to recognize Birthplace and Childhood Home in Wythe County.
- HJ 243 Wetlands; DEQ to study benefits and costs of seeking authority from USEPA to administer program.
- HJ 362 Commending CACI International Inc. on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.
- HJ 390 National Guard Day; designating as third Monday in January 2013, & each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 531 General Assembly; legislation may be carried over from 2012 Regular Session to 2012 Special Session.
- HJ 532 General Assembly; applies to Governor to call special session to consider budget bill, etc.
- SB 272 General Assembly; consideration of certain documents related to budget bill.
- SB 348 Agency Effectiveness Review Commission; established, report.
- SB 395 Woodrow Wilson's Presidency, Virginia Commission on the Centennial of; extends date for funding.
- SB 573 Capitol Police; disposal of unclaimed firearms.
- SB 599 Virginia College Savings Plan; JLARC to oversee and evaluate, report.
- SB 611 Prefiled legislation; electronic signature may be used.
- SJ 13 Sesquicentennial of Emancipation Proclamation; recognizing African American members.
- SJ 14 Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study.
- SJ 15 Electronic identity credentials; JCOTS to study and determine possible liability concerns therewith.
- SJ 16 Unemployment Compensation Act; Commission on Unemployment Compensation to study federal Act.
- SJ 19 Community colleges; SCHEV to study offering selected baccalaureate degrees.
- SJ 21 Cigarette trafficking, illegal; Virginia State Crime Commission to study practice thereof.
- SJ 45 Property owners, low-income; JLARC to study real property tax relief.
- SJ 46 Peninsula Fine Arts Center; commemorating its 50th anniversary.
- SJ 48 Virginia Retirement System; JLARC to study system for determining eligibility for disability claims.
- SJ 49 Retirement Communities, Continuing Care; Virginia Housing Commission to study.
- SJ 50 Dental disease, untreated; Joint Commission on Health Care to study fiscal impact to State.
- SJ 52 High capacity transit; Transportation Board to make priority for funding by State.
- SJ 53 Elderly and incapacitated adults; Crime Commission to study ways to prevent, etc., exploitation.
- SJ 57 Property owners, low-income; JLARC to study real property tax relief.
- SJ 58 Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week.
- SJ 64 Offender classification; Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to study.
- SJ 65 Vital records; JLARC to study feasibility of automation indexing.
- SJ 68 Virginia Department of Transportation; JLARC to study efficiency of Department.
- SJ 69 Judges; Virginia State Crime Commission to study mandatory retirement age.
- SJ 71 Foreclosure procedures; Virginia Housing Commission to study.
- SJ 73 Appalachian Cherokee Nation of Virginia; recognizes existence within State, etc.
- SJ 75 Atlantic Menhaden; Marine Resources Commission to study management plan requirements.
- SJ 76 Flooding; Institute of Marine Science to study strategies to prevent recurrent flooding.
- SJ 85 Income tax, corporate; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study phase-out of tax.
- SJ 86 Machinery and tools, local; TAX to study impact of income tax credit for taxes paid by manufacturer.
- SJ 87 Manufacturing sector; JLARC to study measures to eliminate disparity of tax burden on State.
- SJ 89 Virginia General Assembly; recognizing African American members elected during Reconstruction.
- SJ 90 Juvenile facilities, secure; JLARC to study excess capacity.
- SJ 92 Medicaid; JLARC to study payment policies for hospitals, nursing home, etc., on access to services.
- SJ 93 Solitary confinement; JLARC to study uses including segregation, isolation, etc., by DOC.
- SJ 96 ICPRB; joint subcommittee to study State's withdrawal & effects upon source of drinking water, etc.
- SJ 127 Employment First practices; SHHR, et al., to adopt, etc., in providing service to certain persons.
- SJ 129 Breast Cancer Awareness Day; designating as February 14, 2012.
- SJ 131 Abraham Lincoln Day; designating as February 12, 2012 and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 146 Commending the work of the Fort Monroe Authority, Citizens for a Fort Monroe National Park, Hampton
- SJ 233 General Assembly; change of date for completion of first conference on revenue bills.
- SR 2 2012 Operating Resolution.
- SR 17 Religious freedom; supporting those suffering religious persecution and discrimination.