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2014 SESSION
HB 706 General Assembly member; legislative standing to defend laws of the Commonwealth.
Introduced by: C. Todd Gilbert | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Legislative standing to defend laws of the Commonwealth. Provides that the General Assembly, the House of Delegates, the Senate of Virginia, or a member of the General Assembly has standing to represent the interests of the Commonwealth in a proceeding in which a provision of the Constitution of Virginia is contested or the constitutionality, legality, or application of a law established under legislative authority is at issue and the Governor and Attorney General choose not to defend the law.
FULL TEXT
- 01/07/14 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/08/14 14102264D pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/14 House: Floor substitute printed 14104529D-H1 (Marshall, R.G.) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/07/14 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/08/14 14102264D
- 01/07/14 House: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 01/17/14 House: Referred from Rules by voice vote
- 01/17/14 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/24/14 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (13-Y 7-N)
- 01/28/14 House: Read first time
- 01/29/14 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/30/14 House: Passed by for the day
- 01/31/14 House: Read second time
- 01/31/14 House: Committee amendments rejected
- 01/31/14 House: Floor substitute printed 14104529D-H1 (Marshall, R.G.)
- 01/31/14 House: Substitute by Delegate Marshall, R.G. agreed to 14104529D-H1
- 01/31/14 House: Emergency clause deleted
- 01/31/14 House: Pending question ordered
- 01/31/14 House: Engrossed by House - floor substitute HB706H1
- 02/03/14 House: Read third time and passed House (65-Y 32-N)
- 02/03/14 House: VOTE: PASSAGE (65-Y 32-N)
- 02/04/14 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/04/14 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rules
- 02/21/14 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rules (12-Y 4-N)