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2019 SESSION
Called to order at 12 m. by Lt. Governor Justin E. Fairfax
Prayer offered by Rabbi David Spinrad, Beth El Hebrew Congregation, Alexandria, Virginia
Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America offered by Senate Page Jazz Miles of Richmond
ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS: quorum present
Motion of Senator McPike dispensed with reading of Journal (37‑Y 3‑N)
BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS REPORTED
From Finance: SB 999S, 1023S, 1040A, 1165, 1227, 1255, 1425, 1428, 1480A
From Local Government: SB 1248A, 1304, 1373S
From Privileges and Elections: SB 1016A, 1018A rereferred to Finance, 1038 rereferred to Finance, 1042, 1087S, 1243S, 1577; SJ 275S, 292, 293, 294S, 295S, 296
BILL REREFERRED
From Local Government: SB 1127 rereferred to Finance
Bills and resolutions presented, ordered printed and referred under Senate Rules 11(b) and (26)g: see January 17 Senate Calendar
On motion of Senator McDougle, the Senate recessed at 12:45 p.m. to reconvene at 12:55 p.m.
The Senate reconvened at 12:55 p.m.
CALENDAR
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING
SB 208 - Passed by for day
SB 944 - Passed by for day
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON SECOND READING
SB1031 - Read second time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB1047 - Read second time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB1108 - Read second time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB1121 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB1166 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB1379 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB1383 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB1421 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
SB1422 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate block vote (voice vote)
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON SECOND READING
SB1137 - Read second time, Committee substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB1150 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB1156 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB1186 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB1251 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB1403 - Read second time, Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB1404 - Read second time, Committee amendments agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
SB1426 - Read second time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed by Senate (voice vote)
UNCONTESTED CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON FIRST READING
SB1061 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1086 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1241 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1270 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1300 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1319 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1411 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE BILLS ON FIRST READING
SB 998 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1060 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1062 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1079 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1109 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1153 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1168 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1188 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1199 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1200 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1229 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1259 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1318 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1323 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1387 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
SB1588 - Ruled suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (40-Y 0-N), Passed by for day
REGULAR CALENDAR
SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION ON THIRD READING
SJ 250 - Read third time, Rejected by Senate (18-Y 22-N)
MESSAGE FROM HOUSE: House agreed to HJ 718 (Election of a Court of Appeals of Virginia Judge, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, a Member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, and a Member of the State Corporation Commission)
SR 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, offered by Senator Obenshain
SR 97 offered by Senator Wagner
HJ 718 - Rules suspended, taken up for immediate consideration (40‑Y 0‑N), readings waived, agreed to by Senate (40‑Y 0‑N), House informed
Joint order pursuant to HJ 718
SR 92 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to by Senate (voice vote)
SR 93 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to by Senate (voice vote)
SR 94 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to by Senate (voice vote)
SR 95 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to by Senate (voice vote)
SR 96 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to by Senate (voice vote)
SR 97 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (40‑Y 0‑N), engrossed, agreed to by Senate (voice vote)
House informed that nominations have been made pursuant to HJ 718
MESSAGE FROM HOUSE: Nominations have been made pursuant to HJ 718 (Election of a Court of Appeals of Virginia Judge, Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, a Member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission, and a Member of the State Corporation Commission)
ELECTION OF A COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA JUDGE, CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES, GENERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, A MEMBER OF THE JUDICIAL INQUIRY AND REVIEW COMMISSION, AND A MEMBER OF THE STATE CORPORATION COMMISSION
A Court of Appeals of Virginia Judge (40‑Y 0‑N)
Glen A. Huff
Circuit Court Judges (40‑Y 0‑N)
Second Judicial Circuit: Glenn R. Croshaw
Second Judicial Circuit: W. Revell Lewis, III
Fourth Judicial Circuit: Everett A. Martin, Jr.
Fifth Judicial Circuit: Carl Edward Eason, Jr.
Seventh Judicial Circuit: C. Peter Tench
Eighth Judicial Circuit: Christopher W. Hutton
Eleventh Judicial Circuit: Paul W. Cella
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit: Bradley B. Cavedo
Fourteenth Judicial Circuit: James Stephen Yoffy
Fifteenth Judicial Circuit: Sarah L. Deneke
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit: Timothy K. Sanner
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit: James C. Clark
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit: Randy I. Bellows
Twenty-fourth Judicial Circuit: F. Patrick Yeatts
Twenty-seventh Judicial Circuit: Brett L. Geisler
Thirtieth Judicial Circuit: Chadwick S. Dotson
Thirtieth Judicial Circuit: John C. Kilgore
Twentieth Judicial Circuit: James P. Fisher, Out of block (21-Y 0-N)
General District Court Judges (40‑Y 0‑N)
Sixth Judicial District: C. Ridley Bain
Ninth Judicial District: Stephen Ashton Hudgins
Twelfth Judicial District: Keith Nelson Hurley
Thirteenth Judicial District: Lawrence Brevard Cann, III
Fourteenth Judicial District: George Barton Chucker
Fifteenth Judicial District: Hugh S. Campbell
Fifteenth Judicial District: James Bruce Strickland
Seventeenth Judicial District: R. Frances O’Brien
Twenty-eighth Judicial District: Eric R. Thiessen
Twenty-ninth Judicial District: Henry A. Barringer
Thirteenth Judicial District: Tracy W. J. Thorne-Begland, Out of block (38-Y 0-N)
Twenty-fifth Judicial District: William Harrison Cleaveland, Out of block (37-Y 0-N)
Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges (39‑Y 0‑N)
Second Judicial District: Cheshire I’Anson Eveleigh
Second Judicial District: Timothy J. Quick
Third Judicial District: Alotha C. Willis
Fourth Judicial District: Lauri D. Hogge
Sixth Judicial District: Carson E. Saunders, Jr.
Eighth Judicial District: Jay Edward Dugger
Eighth Judicial District: Robert B. Wilson, V
Tenth Judicial District: Robert H. Morrison
Eleventh Judicial District: Phillip T. DiStanislao
Thirteenth Judicial District: Richard B. Campbell
Fifteenth Judicial District: Joseph A. Vance, IV
Sixteenth Judicial District: Claude V. Worrell
Nineteenth Judicial District: Kimberly J. Daniel
Twentieth Judicial District: Avelina S. Jacob
Twenty-first Judicial District: Susan N. Deatherage
Twenty-third Judicial District: Leisa Kube Ciaffone
Twenty-sixth Judicial District: William W. Sharp
Thirtieth Judicial District: Elizabeth S. Wills
Thirty-first Judicial District: Lisa Michelle Baird
A Member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission (39‑Y 0‑N)
Stephanie E. Merritt
A Member of the State Corporation Commission (21-Y 0-N), Reconsidered (40-Y 0-N), a Member of the State Corporation Commission (21-Y 0-N)
Patricia L. West
Reading of report waived (38‑Y 2‑N)
On motion of Senator Norment, the Senate adjourned at 3:03 p.m. to convene Thursday, January 17, 2019 at 12 m.