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2016 SESSION
Called to order at 12 m. by Lt. Governor Ralph S. Northam
Prayer offered by The Reverend Dr. Dennis K. Myers, Southside Baptist Association, Petersburg, Virginia
ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS: quorum present
Motion of Senator Sturtevant dispensed with reading of Journal (32-Y 4-N)
BILLS REPORTED
From Courts of Justice: SB 23S, 48, 175, 198, 479, 544, 608, 615
From Education and Health: SB 17 rereferred to Finance, 19 rereferred to Finance, 83, 159 rereferred to Courts of Justice, 176, 211, 246 rereferred to Finance, 248 rereferred to Courts of Justice, 250S, 328, 343 rereferred to Courts of Justice, 360, 363 rereferred to Rehabilitation and Social Services, 399, 401S, 425, 480, 502, 535 rereferred to Finance, 541 rereferred to Finance, 573
From Transportation: SB 25, 35 rereferred to Finance, 46A rereferred to Finance, 91A, 107, 120S rereferred to Courts of Justice, 163S, 197S, 299A, 375, 434A, 448A, 464
BILLS REREFERRED
From Transportation: SB 572 rereferred to Courts of Justice, 605 rereferred to Courts of Justice, 613 rereferred to Courts of Justice
Leave of absence granted: Senator Alexander
COMMUNICATION FROM HOUSE (HN20121): reading waived (39‑Y 0‑N)
The House of Delegates has agreed to the following House joint resolution: HJ 188
Bills presented, ordered printed and referred/joint resolutions laid on Clerk’s Desk under Senate Rules 11(b), (26)g and HJR 37: see January 25 Senate Calendar
HJR 178 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), Agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N), House informed
Joint order pursuant to HJR 178
SR 29 - Read third time, agreed to (voice vote), House informed
MESSAGE FROM HOUSE: Nominations have been made pursuant to HJR 178 (Election of a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, a Member of the State Corporation Commission, and a Member of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission)
ELECTION OF A MEMBER OF THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION
A Member of the State Corporation Commission (39‑Y 0‑N)
Mark C. Christie
Reading of report waived (37‑Y 1‑N)
SR 25, 26, 27, 28 - offered by Senator Obenshain
SR 30 - offered by Senator Wagner
SR 25 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 26 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 27 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 28 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
SR 30 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to (voice vote)
House informed that nominations have been made pursuant to HJR 178
ELECTION OF A JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES, GENERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, AND A MEMBER OF THE VIRGINIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION
A Judge of the Court of Appeals of Virginia (37‑Y 0‑N)
Robert J. Humphreys
Circuit Court Judges (39‑Y 0‑N)
First Judicial Circuit: Marjorie T. Arrington
First Judicial Circuit: John W. Brown
Second Judicial Circuit: A. Bonwill Shockley
Tenth Judicial Circuit: Leslie M. Osborn
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit: Gary A. Hicks
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit: Joseph J. Ellis
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit: J. Overton Harris
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit: Daniel R. Bouton
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit: Nolan B. Dawkins
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit: Robert J. Smith
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit: Bruce D. White
Twentieth Judicial Circuit: Burke F. McCahill
Twentieth-fourth Judicial Circuit: John T. Cook
Twenty-fifth Judicial Circuit: Victor V. Ludwig
Twenty-sixth Judicial Circuit: Dennis L. Hupp
Twenty-sixth Judicial Circuit: Thomas J. Wilson IV
Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit: Robert M. D. Turk
Twenty-ninth Judicial Circuit: Patrick R. Johnson
General District Court Judges (39‑Y 0‑N)
Second Judicial District: Teresa N. Hammons
Second Judicial District: Gene A. Woolard
Third Judicial District: Douglas B. Ottinger
Third Judicial District: Morton V. Whitlow
Tenth Judicial District: Charles H. Warren
Tenth Judicial District: J. William Watson, Jr.
Thirteenth Judicial District: D. Eugene Cheek, Sr.
Eighteenth Judicial District: Becky Jo Moore
Nineteenth Judicial District: Mitchell I. Mutnick
Twenty-fifth Judicial District: Gordon F. Saunders
Twenty-seventh Judicial District: Randal J. Duncan
Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges (39‑Y 0‑N)
Second Judicial District: Deborah V. Bryan
Fourth Judicial District: Joseph P. Massey
Seventh Judicial District: Ronald E. Bensten
Ninth Judicial District: George C. Fairbanks IV
Tenth Judicial District: Marvin H. Dunkum, Jr.
Twelfth Judicial District: D. Gregory Carr
Fourteenth Judicial District: Stuart L. Williams, Jr.
Seventeenth Judicial District: George D. Varoutsos
Twenty-second Judicial District: Dale M. Wiley
Twenty-fourth Judicial District: R. Louis Harrison, Jr.
Twenty-sixth Judicial District: Elizabeth Kellas Burton
Thirty-first Judicial District: D. Scott Bailey
A Member of the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission (39‑Y 0‑N)
Robert Ferrell Newman
Reading of report waived (37‑Y 2‑N)
CALENDAR
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING
SB 27 - Read third time and passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)
SB 109 - Read third time and passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)
SB 205 - Read third time and passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)
SB 423 - Read third time and passed Senate block vote (38-Y 0-N)
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING
SB 240 - Read third time and passed Senate (37-Y 2-N)
SB 241 - Read third time and passed Senate (26-Y 13-N)
SB 424 - Read third time and passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON SECOND READING
SB 24 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB 38 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB 192 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB 209 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB 374 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON SECOND READING
SB 11 - Read second time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB 179 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB 208 - Passed by for day
SB 229 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB 305 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB 335 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB 337 - Read second time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB 351 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB 447 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON FIRST READING
SB 78 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 79 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 99 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 103 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 122 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 266 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 280 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 281 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 359 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 366 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 382 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 407 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 545 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON FIRST READING
SB 43 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 56 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 69 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 361 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 420 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB 446 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (39-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIONS ON FIRST READING
SJ 1 - Read first time
SJ 70 - Read first time
MEMORIAL RESOLUTIONS
HJ 4 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 5 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 8 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 24 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 25 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 26 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 27 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 28 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 35 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 39 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 40 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 47 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 51 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 57 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 60 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 74 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 111 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 113 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 114 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 118 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 128 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 129 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 147 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 148 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
HJ 153 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SJ 74 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SJ 76 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SJ 100 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SJ 103 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SJ 104 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SJ 105 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SJ 110 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SJ 111 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
SR 3 - Agreed to by Senate block vote
COMMENDING RESOLUTIONS
HJ 6 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 10 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 11 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 12 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 13 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 14 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 15 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 16 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 19 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 20 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 21 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 30 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 32 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 33 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 34 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 36 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 41 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 43 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 46 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 48 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 49 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 54 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 59 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 62 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 67 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 68 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 71 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 75 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 80 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 81 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 85 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 91 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 95 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 98 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 102 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 106 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 107 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 121 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 122 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 125 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 126 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 127 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 130 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 132 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 133 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 140 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 141 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 142 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 143 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 144 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 145 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 146 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 152 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 154 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 155 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 156 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 175 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SJ 77 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SJ 78 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SJ 82 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SJ 98 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SJ 99 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SJ 106 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SJ 108 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SJ 109 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SR 2 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SR 13 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SR 20 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SR 23 - Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)
HJ 188 - Rules suspended, taken up for immediate consideration (39-Y 0-N), Agreed to by Senate (voice vote)
On motion of Senator Newman, the Senate adjourned in Memory of General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson at 2:17 p.m. to convene Monday, January 25, 2016 at 12 m. pursuant to the Constitution and in agreement with the House of Delegates to adjourn for more than three days, and suspended the Rules to allow the Clerk to receive legislation until 3:00 p.m. Friday, January 22, 2016 (38‑Y 0‑N). Pursuant to Rule 21(d)ii, the Clerk was ordered to receive committee reports.
BILLS REPORTED
From Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources: SB 1, 21S, 37S, 152, 227 rereferred to Finance, 252A, 268, 284S, 307, 348, 349, 356S, 443A, 529
From Rehabilitation and Social Services: SB 4A, 39A, 124A, 126, 154S, 322S, 350, 363, 373A, 419 rereferred to Courts of Justice, 569S
BILLS REREFERRED
From Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources: SB 9 rereferred to Courts of Justice
From Rehabilitation and Social Services: SB 93 rereferred to Commerce and Labor, 216 rereferred to Courts of Justice