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- HB 1466 Capitol Police; security for Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General-elect, etc.
- HB 1998 State and federal programs; VRS shall convene a work group to review, etc.
- HB 2026 Health Insurance Reform Commission; power and duties, upon request assess proposed mandated DLS.
- HB 2070 Conflicts of Interests Act, State & Local Gov't & General Assembly, etc.; ethics reforms.
- HB 2106 Virginia Indian Recognition, Joint Commission on; established, report, sunset provision.
- HB 2281 Commission for the Commemoration of the Centennial of Women's Right to Vote.
- HJ 506 Long-term impact of biosolids and industrial waste; Va. Institute of Marine Science & DMME to study.
- HJ 507 National Day of the Cowboy; designating as fourth Saturday in July 2015, and each year thereafter.
- HJ 512 Commending Jim Day.
- HJ 518 Commending Twin Hickory Elementary School.
- HJ 521 Virginia's Rail Heritage Region; designating certain areas in the Commonwealth.
- HJ 523 General Assembly; 2015 Session schedule.
- HJ 524 General Assembly; establishes 2016 Regular Session prefiling schedule.
- HJ 527 Virginia Caregivers Month; designating as November 2015, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 533 Gum Disease Awareness Month; designating as February 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 537 Drug trafficking; interstate cooperation.
- HJ 538 Commending Harold S. Lilly, Sr.
- HJ 539 Commending the Braemar Blasters swim team.
- HJ 550 Commending National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- HJ 554 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Dr. Edward Daniel McCreary, Jr.
- HJ 555 Higher education; endorsement of SCHEV's statewide strategic plan, report.
- HJ 556 Commending the Benedictine College Preparatory school football team.
- HJ 557 Veterans Services, Department of; JLARC to review.
- HJ 558 Teachers, qualified; Department of Education and SCHEV, report.
- HJ 564 Commending Eric Betzig, Ph.D.
- HJ 566 Lewis & Clark Eastern Legacy Trail; designating as portion of Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail.
- HJ 568 Celebrating the life of Jack Wayne Hunley.
- HJ 579 Commemorating the lives and legacies of the Four Chaplains.
- HJ 586 Public elementary schools; voluntary mental health screenings for students.
- HJ 587 Stormwater regulations; impact on high water table area, report.
- HJ 593 Losing Loved Ones in a Tragic Accident Month; designating as August 2015, and each year thereafter.
- HJ 594 Insurance underwriting; Bureau of Insurance to study use of credit history.
- HJ 598 Driver's license; suspension for unpaid court fines and costs.
- HJ 600 Sexual Assault Awareness Month; designating as April 2015, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 603 Higher educational institutions; prevention of sexual violence on campus.
- HJ 605 Commending Carroll County.
- HJ 606 Maternal Mental Health Month; designating as May 2015, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 607 National Atomic Veterans Day; designating as July 16, 2015, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 608 Environmental Protection Agency emissions guidelines; opposition.
- HJ 623 Water resource and planning management; JLARC to study Virginia's resources.
- HJ 630 Opioid; mandating health insurance coverage for abuse deterrent formulations.
- HJ 634 Commemorating the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta.
- HJ 635 Communications sales and use tax; Department of Taxation to study performance of tax.
- HJ 637 Medicaid; JLARC to study the Commonwealth's program.
- HJ 638 Kinship Caregivers of Children Month; designating as September 2015, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 641 Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution; designating as January 30, 2016.
- HJ 644 Internet; benefit of sharing wireless access with local law-enforcement agencies.
- HJ 659 Israel, State of; encouraging support for the State.
- HJ 666 Clean Water Act; opposition to definition of "waters of the United States."
- HJ 674 Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
- HJ 679 Celebrating the life of Joseph Licari.
- HJ 681 Celebrating the life of Earl T. Smith.
- HJ 692 Farm-to-School Week; designating as first full week in October 2015, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 693 Tax Withholding and Employer Contribution Awareness Month; designating as March 2016.
- HJ 696 Commending the Carroll County Middle School eighth-grade class.
- HJ 702 Day to Serve; designating as each day from September 11 to October 10, 2015.
- HJ 704 Celebrating the life of R. David O'Dell, Jr.
- HJ 705 Commending the Gate City High School volleyball team.
- HJ 707 Postsecondary Institution Ratings System; opposition to federal system.
- HJ 709 Law Day 2015; commending.
- HJ 713 Celebrating the life of Michael Francis Blair.
- HJ 714 Celebrating the life of Jack R. Hamm.
- HJ 715 Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- HJ 719 NASA's Wallops Flight Facility; NASA to conduct an environmental impact study.
- HJ 725 Commending Didlake.
- HJ 729 Commending the Hampton Roads Sanitation District.
- HJ 733 Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
- HJ 734 Commemorating the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps.
- HJ 735 Commending Doug Bryant.
- HJ 736 Celebrating the life of Captain William E. West, Jr., USCG (Ret.).
- HJ 737 Celebrating the life of Dennis Ray Daniels.
- HJ 739 Celebrating the life of Thomas F. Bergin.
- HJ 745 Commending Dennis Welch.
- HJ 747 Celebrating the life of the Honorable William Wellington Jones.
- HJ 774 Celebrating the life of Gladys Poles Todd.
- HJ 775 Celebrating the life of Francis M. Niederkofler.
- HJ 797 Day of Honor for the Marquis de Lafayette; designating as March 14, 2015, and each year thereafter.
- HJ 803 Commending Virginia Master Gardener Association, Inc.
- HJ 804 Speaker of the House of Delegates; confirming appointments.
- HJ 805 Commending Dolores A. Moore.
- HJ 811 Commending the Stuarts Draft Ruritan Club.
- HJ 812 Celebrating the life of Jon Reed Donnelly.
- HJ 838 Commemorating the arrival of the French frigate Hermione at Virginia in 2015.
- HJ 841 Celebrating the life of Sam Kornblau.
- HJ 843 Celebrating the life of Robert Barns Brittain.
- HJ 860 Celebrating the life of Kathleen Therese Brown Rodenburg.
- HJ 861 Commending George Frederick Boyland.
- HJ 866 Commending Edward M. Page, Sr.
- HJ 871 Commending Matt Hagan.
- HJ 876 Commending the Community Church of God in Christ.
- HJ 878 Celebrating the life of Ferdinand T. Day.
- HJ 888 Commending the Children's Cardiomyopathy Foundation.
- HJ 894 Commending Scott M. Hamberger.
- HJ 895 Commending the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce.
- HJ 899 Commending Milton J. Herd.
- HJ 902 Commending Walnut Hills Baptist Church.
- HJ 903 Commending Jim Golden.
- HJ 915 Commending Patricia Ann Keller Douglas.
- HJ 920 Commending the Giles High School football team.
- HJ 921 Commending Robert Cellell Dalton.
- HJ 922 Commending Samir N. Saliba.
- HJ 923 Commending Carolyn Honeycutt.
- HJ 925 Commending the Honorable J. Michael Gamble.
- HJ 927 Commending Linda Byers.
- HJ 947 Commending 360IT Partners.
- HJ 948 Commending Michael Torrech.
- HJ 949 Celebrating the life of Jerome Kersey.
- SB 696 Conflict of Interests Acts, State & Local Government, & General Assembly; certain gifts prohibited.
- SB 735 General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; prohibited conduct related to travel.
- SB 740 Carbon dioxide emissions; regulation, General Assembly approval of state plan.
- SB 743 Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; local representation.
- SB 752 State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act;prohibited conduct for Governor's Secretaries.
- SB 777 General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act; gift-free legislator, penalty.
- SB 812 Lobbyist disclosure; definition of executive action, procurement transactions.
- SB 876 Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Government; prohibited contracts by hospital authorities.
- SB 883 Virginia-Korea Advisory Board; established, report.
- SB 894 Community Integration Advisory Commission; expands membership, extends sunset provision.
- SB 924 General Assembly members; compensation for attendance at conferences.
- SB 1026 Lobbyist disclosure; reporting by certain political subdivisions.
- SB 1033 Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; increases membership.
- SB 1048 Capitol Police; security for Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor-elect, Attorney General-elect.
- SB 1057 Advisory Committee on Sexual and Domestic Violence.
- SB 1134 General Assembly members; prohibited conduct.
- SB 1136 Administrative Rules, Joint Commission on; powers and duties, effect of administrative rules.
- SB 1139 General Assembly; testimony under oath before committee or subcommittee.
- SB 1140 Local fiscal impact bills; first day introduction.
- SB 1150 General Assembly; consideration of the conference committee report on the biennial budget.
- SB 1213 Human Trafficking, Advisory Council on; established, report, sunset provision.
- SB 1250 Lobbyist disclosure; amends portion of form on which gifts are disclosed.
- SB 1251 Lobbyist reporting; disclosure statement.
- SB 1267 Conflicts of Interests Acts, State and Local Government, and General Assembly; prohibited.
- SB 1278 Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Gov't, and General Assembly; prohibited gifts.
- SB 1289 State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act.
- SB 1323 Study; Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative; report.
- SB 1343 Joint Rules Committee of General Assembly; employment of legal counsel.
- SB 1345 State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act & General Assembly Conflicts of Interests Act.
- SB 1352 General Assembly; consideration of the conference committee report on the biennial budget.
- SB 1424 Conflicts of Interests Act, State & Local Gov't & General Assembly, etc.; ethics reforms.
- SB 1425 General Assembly; reports accompanying general appropriation bills.
- SB 1436 Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission; reduces number of membership.
- SJ 218 Teachers; Department of Education to study implementing program to track turnover.
- SJ 220 Appalachian Cherokee Nation Tribe; General Assembly to extend state recognition.
- SJ 226 Commemorating the 240th anniversary of George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights in 2016.
- SJ 227 Public lands; memorializing Congress of the United States to transfer title to western states.
- SJ 228 Higher education; endorsement of SCHEV's statewide strategic plan, report.
- SJ 234 Dulles Greenway; JLARC to study feasibility of purchasing.
- SJ 235 Virginia Housing Trust Fund; revenue sources, report.
- SJ 236 Auxiliary grant program; Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to study.
- SJ 237 Virginia Homeless Solutions Program; DHCD to study $500 asset cap.
- SJ 239 Early childhood practitioner professional development; Department of Education, et al., to study.
- SJ 240 Oral health care; Joint Commission on Health Care to study older Virginians' access to care.
- SJ 241 Study; JLARC; early childhood development programs; report.
- SJ 242 High-growth companies; VEDP Authority and DHCD to study program supporting.
- SJ 243 Veterans Services, Department of; JLARC to review.
- SJ 244 Study; long-term impact of biosolids and industrial waste; report.
- SJ 245 Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
- SJ 252 United States Congress; application to call a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution.
- SJ 254 Clean Water Act; opposition.
- SJ 262 Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization; signage.
- SJ 268 Medicaid; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study.
- SJ 269 U.S. Constitution; application for a convention of the states.
- SJ 271 Biosolids and industrial residuals; SNR, et al., to review & evaluate impact on human health, etc.
- SJ 272 Virginia's water resource planning and management; JLARC to study.
- SJ 273 Clean Power Plan; DEQ to compare projected health benefits with those of existing regulations.
- SJ 274 Virginia's manufacturing sector; JLARC to update 2006 study.
- SJ 276 Driver's license; federal requirement suspension upon conviction of a drug offense.
- SJ 277 Study; SCHEV; Pay It Forward, Pay It Back; report.
- SJ 279 Tannerite; joint subcommittee to study danger of use of these explosives.
- SJ 280 Law-enforcement agencies; JLARC to study consolidation of certain state agencies.
- SJ 281 Urban schools; joint subcommittee to study unique and specific challenges facing school divisions.
- SJ 282 Sex Offender Registry; Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security to study effectiveness.
- SJ 285 Family and medical leave; feasibility of expanding in the state to complement federal requirements.
- SJ 286 Commemorating the life and legacy of Benjamin Franklin Butler.
- SJ 287 Study; JLARC; early childhood development programs; report.
- SJ 288 Study; Department of Education; effect of local use value assessment of certain real estate.
- SJ 290 Governor's School for Innovation and Entrepreneurship; establishes in Hampton Roads.
- SJ 291 Flood resilience; DEQ to study potential for funding source to localities in coastal Virginia.
- SJ 292 Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia; General Assembly of Virginia to extend state recognition.
- SJ 294 Carbon dioxide emissions; regulation of existing power plants, withdrawal of federal guidelines.
- SJ 296 Senate Committee on Rules; confirming appointments.
- SJ 299 Virginia Housing Commission; affordable housing for people reentering society.
- SJ 300 Municipal electric utility; Commission on Electric Utility Regulation to study regulations of rates.
- SJ 308 Joint Rules Committee; to employ counsel to challenge federal rules carbon emission guidelines.
- SJ 317 NASA's Wallops Flight Facility; environmental impact statement.
- SJ 346 Virginia Hospital Week; designating as May 10 through May 16, 2015.
- SJ 358 Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month; designating as March 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SR 62 Corrections, Department of; staffing levels and employment conditions.
- SR 65 Senate of Virginia; 2015 operating resolution.
- SR 100 Confirming appointments to the Senate Ethics Advisory Panel.
- SR 108 Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the creation of the Court of Scott County.