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2015 SESSION

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Minute Book
2015 Session
Senate of Virginia
RALPH S. NORTHAM, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SUSAN CLARKE SCHAAR, CLERK
Monday, February 16, 2015
 

 

Called to order at 12 m. by Lt. Governor Ralph S. Northam

Prayer offered by The Reverend Travis Witt, Evington, Virginia

ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS: quorum present

Motion of Senator Stuart dispensed with reading of Journal (32-Y 4-N)

COMMUNICATION FROM HOUSE (HN10213): reading waived (34‑Y 4‑N)

The House of Delegates has passed with amendments the following Senate bills: SB 701, 918, 933, 1037, 1081, 1094, 1187, 1319

The House of Delegates has passed with substitutes the following Senate bills: SB 675, 676, 724, 892, 916, 941, 999, 1042, 1074, 1162, 1188, 1290, 1308, 1403, 1404

The House of Delegates has passed with a substitute with amendment the following Senate bill: SB 1231

The House of Delegates has agreed to the following House joint resolutions: HJ 750, 754, 755, 756, 757, 758, 759, 761, 762, 763, 764, 765, 766, 767, 768, 769, 770, 772, 774, 775, 778, 780, 781, 782, 783, 784, 785, 786, 787, 788, 790, 791, 792, 793, 794, 796, 798, 799, 800, 801, 802

The House of Delegates has passed the following Senate bills: SB 678, 685, 782, 811, 858, 862, 869, 874, 900, 904, 923, 955, 963, 966, 972, 1024, 1031, 1043, 1079, 1115, 1119, 1127, 1142, 1157, 1173, 1205, 1219, 1232, 1235, 1263, 1284, 1306, 1320, 1335, 1336, 1359, 1360, 1366, 1376, 1413

The House of Delegates has agreed to the following Senate joint resolutions: SJ 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 303, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 330

Senate bills with House amendments, substitutes, and substitute with amendment placed on Calendar

House joint resolutions laid on Clerk’s Desk: see February 17 Senate Calendar

BILLS REPORTED

From Courts of Justice: HB 1329A rereferred to Finance, 1353A, 1366A, 1427 rereferred to Finance, 1445A, 1476, 1493 rereferred to Finance, 1499, 1500S, 1506A, 1533 rereferred to Finance, 1578, 1601, 1639, 1666 rereferred to Finance, 1693, 1694, 1702 rereferred to Finance, 1767S, 1775, 1807S, 1808, 1927S, 1928A, 1964S, 1984S, 2029 rereferred to Finance, 2036S, 2040 rereferred to Finance, 2043A, 2049, 2061 rereferred to Finance, 2094, 2329S, 2385 rereferred to Finance

From Rules: HJ 512, 518, 538, 539, 550, 554, 556, 564, 568, 579, 605, 634, 679, 681, 696, 704, 705, 713, 714, 715, 725, 729, 733, 734, 735, 736, 737, 739, 745, 747

BILLS REREFERRED

From Courts of Justice: HB 1794 rereferred to General Laws and Technology, 1905 rereferred to General Laws and Technology, 2080 rereferred to General Laws and Technology

Leaves of absence granted: Senators Lucas and Puller

SB 1464 - offered by Senator Lewis (request of Governor)

SJ 357 - offered by Senator Favola

SR 100 - offered by Senator McDougle

SR 101 - offered by Senator Norment

SR 102 - offered by Senator Miller

Bill and resolution presented, ordered printed and referred/joint resolutions laid on Clerk’s Desk under Senate Rules 11(b), (26)g and HJR 523: see February 17 Senate Calendar

On motion of Senator Norment, the Senate recessed at 12:40 p.m. to reconvene at 12:55 p.m.

The Senate reconvened at 12:55 p.m.

CALENDAR

UNFINISHED BUSINESS - SENATE

SB 763 - House amendments agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)

SB 775 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)

SB 790 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)

SB 854 - House amendments agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)

SB 859 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)

SB 989 - House amendment agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)

SB1099 - House amendment agreed to by Senate (36-Y 1-N 1-A)

SB1165 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 1-N)

UNCONTESTED CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING

HB1307 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1331 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1334 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1335 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1341 - Read third time, Committee amendments agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1342 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1344 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1350 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1355 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1367 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1374 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1379 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1392 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1398 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1401 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1408 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1413 - Read third time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1423 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1435 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1457 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1458 - Read third time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1484 - Read third time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1490 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1531 - Read third time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1544 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1545 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1549 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1551 - Read third time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1558 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1564 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1587 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1594 - Read third time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1602 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1603 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1607 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1609 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1610 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1635 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1649 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1657 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1679 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1707 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1748 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1776 - Read third time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1791 - Read third time, Martin floor amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1803 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1804 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1822 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1824 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1868 - Read third time, Petersen floor amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1882 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1908 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1921 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1935 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1952 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1956 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1959 - Read third time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1963 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1966 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1980 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1983 - Read third time, Committee amendments agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2016 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2063 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2068 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2072 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2090 - Read third time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2118 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2172 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2184 - Read third time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2192 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2229 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2235 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2279 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB2290 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)

HB1308 - Out of block, Passed by for day

HB1319 - Out of block, Read third time, Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N)

HB1470 - Out of block, Passed by for day

HB1955 - Out of block, Read third time, Passed Senate (34-Y 4-N), Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N), Passed Senate (32-Y 6-N)

HB2177 - Out of block, Passed by for day

REGULAR CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING

HB1336 - Read third time, Passed Senate (31-Y 7-N)

HB1351 - Read third time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (31-Y 4-N), Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N), Passed Senate (33-Y 4-N)

HB1397 - Read third time, Passed Senate (37-Y 0-N), Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N), Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)

HB1418 - Motion to recommit to Courts of Justice agreed to (voice vote)

HB1443 - Read third time, Passed Senate (36-Y 1-N 1-A), Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (36-Y 1-N), Passed Senate (37-Y 1-N)

HB1510 - Read third time, Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)

HB1611 - Read third time, Passed Senate (34-Y 4-N)

HB1626 - Passed by for day

HB1875 - Read third time, Passed Senate (35-Y 3-N)

HB1978 - Read third time, Passed Senate (34-Y 4-N)

HB2114 - Read third time, Committee amendments agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (20-Y 17-N 1-A)

HB2298 - Read third time, Committee amendments agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (36-Y 2-N)

UNCONTESTED CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING

HB1277 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1324 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1364 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1439 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1516 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1535 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1536 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1634 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1796 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1817 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1827 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1829 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1847 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1958 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1961 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB2052 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB2083 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB2119 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB2141 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

REGULAR CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING

HB1482 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1488 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1507 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1565 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB1859 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

SJ 358 - offered by Senator McEachin (unanimous consent to introduce by voice vote)

Joint resolution presented, ordered printed and referred under Senate Rules 11(b), (26)g and HJR 523: see February 17 Senate Calendar

On motion of Senator Stosch the Senate adjourned in Memory of Mathias W. Giordano at 2:10 p.m. to convene Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 12 m. Pursuant to Rule 21(d)ii, the Clerk was ordered to receive committee reports.

BILLS REPORTED

From Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources: SB 1464

From Education and Health: HB 2306 rereferred to Finance