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- HB 27 Local fiscal impact bills; first-day introduction.
- HB 122 Preservation of History of Formerly Enslaved African Americans in Va., Commission on; established.
- HB 214 Tax reform, state and local; joint subcommittee to study.
- HB 245 Keeper of the Rolls; authority to correct errors in legislation.
- HB 451 Economic Opportunity for Virginians in Aspiring & Diverse Communities, Commission on; report.
- HB 474 Child-care providers; criminal history background checks.
- HB 665 Employee Retirement Security & Pension Reform, Commission on; established, report, sunset provision.
- HB 686 General Assembly; Clerks' offices allowed access to confidential bill request information.
- HB 807 Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; planning, coordination, and implementation of 400th anniversary.
- HB 814 Virginia Indian advisory board; Secretary of the Commonwealth may establish, membership.
- HB 856 Women's Right to Vote, Commission for Commemoration of Centennial of; established.
- HB 959 Women's Right to Vote, Commission for Commemoration of Centennial of; established.
- HB 1059 Heroin possession; Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to evaluate sentencing guidelines.
- HB 1315 General Assembly; introduction of legislation, recorded vote in committee or subcommittee.
- HB 1333 Bill drafting, certain; designated access to information.
- HB 1338 Law-enforcement officers; personal security for Governor.
- HJ 3 United States Constitution; application for a convention of the states.
- HJ 7 Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; JLARC to review Authority, report.
- HJ 9 Congress of U.S.; repeal of personal income taxes and enactment of national retail sales tax.
- HJ 31 Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week; designating second week in June 2016, and each year thereafter.
- HJ 45 Health insurance; coverage for abuse deterrent formulations for opioid medications.
- HJ 50 Composite Index of Local Ability to Pay; DOE to study effect of local use value assessment
- HJ 52 Interstate Highway System; State Route 28 to be included in System.
- HJ 55 Bicycle on state highways; Department of State Police to study laws and policies.
- HJ 56 Biosolids and industrial wastes; short-term and long-term effects, report.
- HJ 58 Traffic signal retiming; Department of Transportation to study.
- HJ 61 Life-prolonging care; Joint Commission on Health Care to study legal and regulatory requirements.
- HJ 63 Speaker of the House; authority to employ legal counsel to represent General Assembly.
- HJ 65 Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth; Joint Commission on Health Care to study expanding mission.
- HJ 66 Refugee Resettlement Program; JLARC to study cost to the Commonwealth and localities.
- HJ 69 Driver's license suspension; use as collection method for unpaid court fines and costs.
- HJ 70 State parks; JARC to study feasibility of public-private partnership in managing parks.
- HJ 72 Minimum wage; effects of increasing the in the Commonwealth.
- HJ 73 Midtown and Downtown Tunnels in Hampton Roads; CTB to study reduction or elimination of tolls.
- HJ 76 Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia; General Assembly of Virginia to extend state recognition.
- HJ 77 Study; CTB to study reduction or elimination of tolls on Midtown-Downtown Tunnels in Hampton Rds.
- HJ 78 Resolution; encouraging employers in the Commonwealth to pay their employees a living wage.
- HJ 79 Schedule I and II offenders; JLARC to study sentencing and alternatives to incarceration.
- HJ 83 Student nutrition; Office of School Nutrition Programs in the Department of Education to study.
- HJ 84 Recurrent flooding; Joint Subcommittee to formulate recommendations.
- HJ 86 Educators; recognizing need in the Commonwealth to cultivate Virginia high school graduate.
- HJ 87 Advance Care Planning Month; designating as April 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 88 Drinking Water and Wastewater Professionals Appreciation Day; designating as June 30, 2016.
- HJ 90 United States Constitution; amendment concerning federal budget, sunset provision.
- HJ 94 Oyster shell reclamation; VCU's Rice Rivers Center to study.
- HJ 99 Intermodal transfer facility; Secretary of Transportation to study.
- HJ 100 Dulles Greenway; Department of Transportation to study.
- HJ 101 Dulles Greenway; Department of Transportation to study feasibility of purchasing.
- HJ 103 Adoption; Commission on Youth to study home study process.
- HJ 104 Human trafficking of minors.
- HJ 108 Medicaid; JLARC to study electronic sources of data, etc.
- HJ 109 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact of 1966; Governor to review, report.
- HJ 110 Interstate 66; Secretary of Transportation to study tolling alternatives.
- HJ 112 Public elementary & secondary education; education and health in the Commonwealth, report.
- HJ 115 Interstate 73; joint subcommittee to study construction of proposed Interstate.
- HJ 116 Interstate 73; Department of Transportation to study proposed construction.
- HJ 120 Biosolids and industrial residuals in Virginia; JLARC to study.
- HJ 124 Unaccompanied alien minors; reimbursement to Fairfax County for cost.
- HJ 137 Driver's license; suspension upon conviction of marijuana offense.
- HJ 138 Dulles Toll Road Permit & Operating Agreement; Joint Com. on Transportation Accountability to study.
- HJ 151 Early childhood development programs; JLARC to study specific programs.
- HJ 157 Virginia Community College System; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review.
- HJ 159 Public transportation services; DRPT to evaluate study necessary to identify, etc.
- HJ 160 Dogs and cats, licensing; Virginia Department of Health to study Virginia's procedures.
- HJ 161 Inclusive education practices pilot program; Division of Special Education of DOE to study.
- HJ 163 Speaker of the House of Delegates; confirming appointments to certain boards and councils.
- HJ 169 Virginia Barbecue Season; designating as May through October 2016, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 171 Persons with disabilities; cross-jurisdictional transportation.
- HJ 177 Anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS); condemnation.
- HJ 181 Norfolk & Western Railway Class J 611; designating as the official steam locomotive of Virginia.
- HJ 197 Chagas Disease Awareness Day; designating as April 14, 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 206 Omphalocele Awareness Day; designating as January 31, 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 245 Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Month; designating as November 2016, and each succeeding year.
- HJ 336 Year of Shakespeare; designating as 2016.
- HJ 347 Indigenous Peoples Day.
- HJ 372 Speaker of the House of Delegates; confirming appointments.
- HJ 425 Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day.
- HR 73 House Ethics Advisory Panel; nominations by the Speaker of the House of Delegates.
- HR 75 Commending religious liberty and freedom from political persecution.
- HR 141 Recognizing the influence of Christian heritage in Virginia.
- SB 225 Autism Advisory Council; extends sunset provision.
- SB 600 Intergovernmental Cooperation, Virginia Commission on; membership.
- SB 667 Governor; absolute pardons shall not be posted by DLAS on its website.
- SB 680 General Assembly; JLARC to review fiscal impact statements for executive orders when requested.
- SJ 27 International Assistance Dog Week; designating as first full week in August 2016.
- SJ 35 Advance Care Planning Month; designating as April 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 40 Recognition of the Wolf Creek Cherokee Tribe of Virginia.
- SJ 48 Blood Cancer Awareness Month; designating September 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 49 Lymphoma Awareness Day; designating September 15, 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 51 Comprehensive indigent defense system; State Crime Commission to study.
- SJ 58 Recurrent flooding; joint subcommittee to formulate recommendations.
- SJ 61 Virginia Constitution Day; designating as June 29, 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 62 Wear Red Day; designating as first Friday in February 2017, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 63 Child day programs; Department of Social Services to study programs exempt from licensure.
- SJ 71 Individuals with brain injury, etc.; Joint Commission on Health Care to study.
- SJ 73 Kinship foster care and adoptive placements; DSS to study restrictions of barrier crimes.
- SJ 80 Historic properties without homeowner associations; VHC to study disclosure of information.
- SJ 83 Medicaid fraud cases; DMAS, et al., to study conferral of authority to local departments.
- SJ 85 Public elementary and secondary education; joint committee to study future of education.
- SJ 87 Multifamily residential dwellings; VHC to study mandatory recycling programs.
- SJ 88 Early childhood development programs; JLARC to study specific programs.
- SJ 89 Tenant bankruptcy; VHC to study impact of proceedings on landlords.
- SJ 95 TANF; Commission on Youth to study DSS's administration of Program.
- SJ 96 College readiness; State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, et al.
- SJ 97 Commonwealth's aerospace industry; Virginia Economic Development Partnership to study.
- SJ 101 Purple Heart State; designating as the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- SJ 102 Purple Heart Day; designating as August 7, 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 129 Public Transportation Safety Day; designating as April 29, 2016, & each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 188 Senate Committee on Rules; confirming appointments.