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2015 SESSION
Senator John S. Edwards (D) - Senate District 21
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 301
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: district21@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 1179
- Roanoke, Virginia 24006-1179
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 1289 Same-sex marriages; civil unions.
- HB 1399 Flood insurance; escrow accounts.
- HB 1424 Virginia Water and Waste Authorities Act; delinquent payment.
- HB 1600 Gender-specific terms; revises certain references.
- HB 1636 Net energy metering; program for community subscriber organizations.
- HB 1665 Financing of clean energy programs; development of optional underwriting guidelines.
- HB 2060 Travel expenses; approval required by the Virginia Conflict of Interest and Ethics Advisory Council.
- HJ 493 Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage.
- HJ 503 Commending Opera on the James.
- HJ 504 Teachers; Department of Education to study implementing program to track turnover.
- HJ 517 Commending Japanese American veterans of World War II.
- HJ 534 Celebrating the life of Stephen W. Bowman.
- HJ 540 Commending Ted Edlich.
- HJ 631 Celebrating the life of James H. Blount, Jr.
- HJ 643 Celebrating the life of Edna H. McEachin.
- HJ 678 Celebrating the life of Jean Williams Auldridge.
- HJ 688 Commending Rostov’s Coffee and Tea.
- HJ 689 Celebrating the life of Fannie Gunst Straus Rosenthal.
- HJ 690 Celebrating the life of Bette Worsham Hawkins Dunford.
- HJ 691 Celebrating the life of Beverly Lynn Ward Reynolds.
- HJ 700 Commending Elk Hill.
- HJ 711 Commending Mount Olive Baptist Church.
- HJ 730 Commending the Mt. Tabor Ruritan Club.
- HJ 731 Commending Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech.
- HJ 732 Commending New River Community Action.
- 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 739 Celebrating the life of Thomas F. Bergin.
- HJ 740 Celebrating the life of the Honorable James Brady Murray.
- HJ 750 Celebrating the life of James Clement Van Pelt, Sr.
- HJ 759 Celebrating the life of E. Cabell Brand.
- HJ 761 Celebrating the life of Lular Ree Clarke Lucky.
- HJ 762 Celebrating the life of the Honorable George W. Harris, Jr.
- HJ 779 Commending the Palisades Restaurant.
- HJ 781 Commending the Virginia Public Safety Foundation.
- HJ 782 Commending Frank Robinson.
- HJ 783 Celebrating the life of Cornelius Wright Sherman.
- HJ 784 Commending the Richmond Peace Education Center.
- HJ 786 Celebrating the life of Sally Clay Estes Flinn.
- HJ 787 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Herbert E. Harris II.
- HJ 799 Celebrating the life of Patricia Godbolt White.
- HJ 828 Celebrating the life of Jim Bullington.
- HJ 835 Commending Frances Rice.
- HJ 836 Commending Bess Pierce, D.V.M.
- HJ 840 Celebrating the life of John Early McDonald, Jr.
- HJ 853 Commending the National Association of Social Workers Virginia Chapter.
- HJ 855 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Vincent F. Callahan, Jr.
- HJ 880 Commending the Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admission Counseling.
- HJ 910 Commending Northern Virginia Community College.
- HJ 913 Commending the Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building.
- HJ 920 Commending the Giles High School football team.
- HJ 935 Commending the Virginia Council for Private Education.
- HJ 939 Commending Craig M. MacLean.
- HJ 941 Commending the United States Navy Reserve.
- HJ 951 Celebrating the life of Baylies Brewster.
- HJ 952 Commending the Richmond Metropolitan Area Group of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc.
- HJ 953 Celebrating the life of Thelma Anthony Jones-Hawthorne.
- HJ 954 Celebrating the life of William W. Stanton VI.
- HJ 955 Commending Binford Middle School.
- HJ 956 Celebrating the life of McEva R. Bowser.
- HJ 957 Commending William David Rice.
- HJ 959 Celebrating the life of Betty Van Yahres.
- SB 681 Minimum wage; increases from its current federally mandated level to $8.00 per hour.
- SB 682 Same-sex marriages; civil unions.
- SB 685 United States Postal Service; inspectors.
- SB 692 Virginia Law Officers' Retirement System; conservation officers.
- SB 753 Trooper Andrew Fox Memorial Bridge; designating as New River Bridge on Interstate 81.
- SB 772 Payment of wages; discrimination between employees on basis of sex.
- SB 773 Psychiatric treatment of minors; objecting minor.
- SB 783 Juveniles; confidentiality of records.
- SB 785 Public employment; prohibits discrimination based on basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
- SB 803 Speed limits in school crossing zones; counties allowed to increase or decrease.
- SB 866 Health insurance; school board allowed to elect to have employees & retirees to receive state plan.
- SB 868 Water or sewer systems; delinquent payment of rates and charges.
- SB 910 Elections; absentee voting by persons age 65 or older.
- SB 957 Child support; court may order for disabled child over the age of 18 (Conner's Law).
- SB 988 Sexual orientation change efforts prohibited.
- SB 1128 State song.
- SB 1166 Public service corporations; access to public records.
- SB 1213 Human Trafficking, Advisory Council on; established, report, sunset provision.
- SB 1300 Northern Virginia Training Center; prohibition of closure.
- SB 1360 Commonwealth's Attorneys Training Fund.
- SB 1427 Breastfeeding in public places; mother's right.
- SB 1457 Health insurance; mandated coverage for autism spectrum disorder.
- SJ 214 Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage.
- SJ 297 Celebrating the life of the Honorable R. Terrence Ney.
- SJ 304 Commending Faye O. Prichard.
- SJ 306 Commending Virginia Organizing.
- SJ 327 Celebrating the life of the Honorable James Brady Murray.
- SJ 345 Commending Eric Betzig, Ph.D.
- SJ 351 Celebrating the life of John Edward Hughes.
- SJ 358 Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month; designating as March 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 371 Commending Laura Puleo.
- SR 91 Celebrating the life of Dr. William Cleveland Bosher, Jr.
- SR 94 Commending the George Mason University Green Machine.
- SR 95 Commending John McE. Garrett.
- SR 126 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Joseph Benedict Benedetti.
- SR 133 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Dudley J. Emick, Jr.