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McDougle (Chair), Norment, Hanger, Newman, Ruff, Wagner, Obenshain, Vogel, Stuart, Stanley, Carrico, Reeves, Saslaw, Locke, Dance
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- HB 238 Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Government; prohibited contracts, exceptions.
- HB 245 Keeper of the Rolls; authority to correct errors in legislation.
- HB 387 Secure Commonwealth Panel; increase of membership, report.
- HB 451 Economic Opportunity for Virginians in Aspiring & Diverse Communities, Commission on; report.
- HB 525 Standards of Learning Innovation Committee; review of standardized testing in public high schools.
- HB 665 Employee Retirement Security & Pension Reform, Commission on; established, report, sunset provision.
- HB 725 Northern Virginia Transportation Commission; membership.
- 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 1059 Heroin possession; Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission to evaluate sentencing guidelines.
- HB 1362 Conflicts of Interests Acts, State & Local Government & General Assembly, etc.; lobbyist reporting.
- HJ 7 Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority; JLARC to review Authority, report.
- HJ 17 Commemorating the life and legacy of Earle Davis Gregory.
- 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 69 Driver's license suspension; use as collection method for unpaid court fines and costs.
- HJ 84 Recurrent flooding; Joint Subcommittee to formulate recommendations.
- 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 97 Commonwealth's aerospace industry; Joint Commission on Technology and Science to study.
- HJ 112 Public elementary & secondary education; education and health in the Commonwealth, report.
- HJ 120 Biosolids and industrial residuals in Virginia; JLARC to study.
- HJ 157 Virginia Community College System; Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to review.
- HJ 160 Dogs and cats, licensing; Virginia Department of Health to study Virginia's procedures.
- 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 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 281 Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Leedstown Resolutions.
- HJ 332 Commending Capitol Square.
- 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.
- SB 28 Virginia Sports Hall of Fame; created, report.
- SB 47 Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; local representation.
- SB 113 Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; membership composition.
- SB 225 Autism Advisory Council; extends sunset provision.
- SB 277 Northern Virginia Transportation Commission; increases membership.
- SB 288 Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Government; advisory opinions for local officers.
- SB 471 Commonwealth Transportation Board; increases regional membership.
- SB 472 Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission; local representation.
- SB 476 Hampton Roads Transportation Fund; distribution of moneys.
- SB 600 Intergovernmental Cooperation, Virginia Commission on; membership.
- SB 634 Secure Commonwealth Panel; membership; reporting.
- SB 652 State and Local Government Conflict of Interest Act; prohibited contracts; exceptions.
- 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.
- SB 692 Conflicts of Interests Acts, State & Local Government & General Assembly, etc.; lobbyist reporting.
- SB 710 Composition of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Compact of 1966.
- SB 711 Women's Right to Vote, Commission for Commemoration of Centennial of; established.
- SJ 27 International Assistance Dog Week; designating as first full week in August 2016.
- SJ 33 Commending the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
- 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 159 Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Leedstown Resolutions.
- SJ 188 Senate Committee on Rules; confirming appointments.
- SR 64 Senate Ethics Advisory Panel; confirming nominations by Senate Committee on Rules.