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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I

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2021 Special Session 1
Senate of Virginia
JUSTIN E. FAIRFAX, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SUSAN CLARKE SCHAAR, CLERK
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
 

 

Called to order at 10:00 a.m. by Lt. Governor Justin E. Fairfax

Prayer offered by The Honorable John A. Cosgrove, Jr., 14th Senatorial District

Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America led by Hobie Lehman, Director of Committee Operations and Sergeant-At-Arms

ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS: quorum present

Motion of Senator Norment dispensed with reading of Journal (33‑Y 6‑N)

COMMUNICATION FROM HOUSE (HN20222): reading waived (34‑Y 5‑N)

The House of Delegates has passed the following Senate bills: SB 1142, 1164, 1165, 1184, 1190, 1239, 1241, 1265, 1270, 1282, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1313, 1316, 1321, 1326, 1328, 1438

The House of Delegates has agreed to the amendments proposed by the Senate to the following House bills: HB 1778, 1893, 1923, 2014, 2111, 2133, 2166

The House of Delegates has agreed to the substitutes proposed by the Senate to the following House bills: HB 1834, 1992, 2008, 2101, 2117, 2218, 2304

BILLS REPORTED

From Finance and Appropriations: HB 1750, 1751, 1855, 1890, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2017, 2027S, 2053, 2063, 2074, 2099A, 2113, 2124A, 2129, 2132, 2137, 2148, 2163, 2191, 2203A, 2227, 2276, 2322, 2331S

Resolutions laid on Clerk’s Desk under Senate Rules 11(b), (26)g and HJR 5001: see February 24 Senate Calendar

On motion of Senator Saslaw, the Senate recessed at 10:55 a.m. to reconvene at 11:00 a.m.

The Senate reconvened at 11:00 a.m.

CALENDAR

UNFINISHED BUSINESS - HOUSE

HB 1818 - Senate insisted on substitute and requested committee of conference (38-Y 0-N)

HB 1985 - Senate insisted on substitute and requested committee of conference (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2032 - Senate insisted on substitute and requested committee of conference (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2047 - Senate insisted on substitute and requested committee of conference (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2146 - Senate insisted on amendment and requested committee of conference (35-Y 4-N), Reconsideration of Senate amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N), Senate insisted on amendment and requested committee of conference (28-Y 10-N)

HB 2167 - Senate insisted on substitute and requested committee of conference (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2177 - Senate receded from amendment (39-Y 0-N), Reconsideration of receding from Senate amendment agreed to (39-Y 0-N), Senate receded from amendment (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2207 - Senate insisted on substitute and requested committee of conference (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2321 - Senate insisted on substitute and requested committee of conference (38-Y 1-N)

HJ 542 - Senate insisted on substitute and requested committee of conference (voice vote)

HB 1811 - Conferees appointed: Senators Locke, Reeves, and Bell

HB 1847 - Conferees appointed: Senators McPike, Mason, and Pillion

UNFINISHED BUSINESS - SENATE

SB 1097 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N), Reconsideration of House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N), House substitute agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N)

SB 1108 - House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)

SB 1115 - House substitute with amendments rejected by Senate (0-Y 39-N)

SB 1121 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (22-Y 17-N)

SB 1135 - House amendment agreed to by Senate (36-Y 2-N)

SB 1138 - House amendments rejected by Senate (2-Y 37-N)

SB 1148 - House amendment agreed to by Senate (25-Y 14-N)

SB 1227 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)

SB 1245 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (21-Y 18-N)

SB 1257 - House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)

SB 1260 - House amendments agreed to by Senate (38-Y 1-N)

SB 1274 - House amendments agreed to by Senate (33-Y 6-N)

SB 1275 - House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)

SB 1288 - House substitute rejected by Senate (1-Y 38-N)

SB 1314 - House amendment agreed to by Senate (27-Y 12-N)

SB 1325 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (37-Y 2-N)

SB 1331 - House amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)

SB 1333 - House substitute agreed to by Senate (34-Y 5-N)

SB 1356 - House amendments agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)

SB 1357 - House substitute with amendment agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)

SB 1444 - House substitute rejected by Senate (2-Y 36-N)

SB 1104 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (39-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators Obenshain, Boysko, and Favola

SB 1254 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (38-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators McPike, Petersen, and Ruff

SB 1366 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (39-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators Barker, Favola, and Reeves

SB 1375 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (39-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators Saslaw, Norment, and Petersen

SB 1415 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (39-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators Stanley, McDougle, and Deeds

SB 1465 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (39-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators Reeves, Stanley, and Morrissey

SB 1469 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (39-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators Barker, Pillion, and Hashmi

SB 1471 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (39-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators Dunnavant, McPike, and Mason

SJ 272 - Senate acceded to request for committee of conference (39-Y 0-N), Conferees appointed: Senators Locke, Surovell, and Vogel

UNCONTESTED CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING

HB 1789 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (39-Y 0-N)

HB 1841 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (39-Y 0-N)

HB 1868 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (39-Y 0-N)

HB 1874 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (39-Y 0-N)

HB 1887 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (39-Y 0-N)

HB 1926 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (39-Y 0-N)

HB 1957 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2070 - Read third time, Passed Senate block vote (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2075 - Out of block, Passed by for day

HB 2208 - Out of block, Read third time, Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N)

REGULAR CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING

HB 2118 - Read third time, Committee substitute rejected (voice vote), Lucas floor substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (25-Y 14-N)

HB 1952 - Motion to recommit to Privileges and Elections agreed to (voice vote)

HB 2020 - Read third time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (29-Y 10-N)

HB 2030 - Read third time, Committee substitute rejected (voice vote), Petersen floor substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)

HB 2198 - Passed by for day

HB 1853 - Read third time, Stuart floor amendment #1 withdrawn, Stuart floor amendment #2 agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (36-Y 3-N)

HB 1900 - Read third time, Petersen floor amendment agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (21-Y 18-N)

HB 1908 - Read third time, Defeated by Senate (19-Y 20-N)

HB 1832 - Read third time, Passed Senate (26-Y 13-N), Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N), Passed Senate (33-Y 5-N)

HB 1854 - Read third time, Passed Senate (22-Y 17-N)

COMMUNICATION FROM HOUSE (HN10223)

The House of Delegates has agreed to the following House joint resolution: HJ 5003

HJ 5003 - 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

SR 532, 533, 534, and 535 - offered by Senator Edwards

Joint order pursuant to HJ 5003

SR 532 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), Engrossed, Agreed to by Senate (voice vote)

SR 533 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), Engrossed, Agreed to by Senate (voice vote)

SR 534 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (39‑Y 0‑N), Engrossed, Agreed to by Senate (voice vote)

SR 535 - Rules suspended, committee discharged, readings waived, taken up for immediate consideration (38‑Y 0‑N), Engrossed, Agreed to by Senate (voice vote)

House informed that nominations have been made pursuant to HJ 5003

COMMUNICATION FROM HOUSE: (HN20223)

Nominations have been made pursuant to HJ 5003 (Election of Circuit Court Judges, General District Court Judges, Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges, and a member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission )

ELECTION OF CIRCUIT COURT JUDGES, GENERAL DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, JUVENILE AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS DISTRICT COURT JUDGES, AND A MEMBER OF THE JUDICIAL INQUIRY AND REVIEW COMMISSION

Circuit Court Judges (39‑Y 0‑N)

First Judicial Circuit: Robert G. MacDonald

Seventh Judicial Circuit: Tyneka L. D. Flythe

Ninth Judicial Circuit: Holly B. Smith

Thirteenth Judicial Circuit: Jacqueline S. McClenney

Fourteenth Judicial Circuit: Rondelle D. Herman

Eighteenth Judicial Circuit: Kathleen M. Uston

Nineteenth Judicial Circuit: Tania L. Saylor Peterson

Twenty-second Judicial Circuit: Timothy W. Allen

Thirty-first Judicial Circuit: Petula C. A. Metzler

General District Court Judges (38‑Y 0‑N), Reconsider (39-Y 0-N), Elected (39-Y 0-N)

First Judicial District: Tanya L. Lomax

Fourth Judicial District: Tameeka M. Williams

Fifth Judicial District: Helivi L. Holland

Seventh Judicial District: Charisse M. Mullen

Ninth Judicial District: Joshua P. DeFord

Thirteenth Judicial District: Devika E. Davis

Fifteenth Judicial District: Jane M. Reynolds

Nineteenth Judicial District: Gary H. Moliken

Twentieth Judicial District: Jessica H. Foster

Thirty-first Judicial District: Che´ C. Rogers

First Judicial District: Linda L. Bryant, Out of block (31-Y 0-N)

Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Judges (39‑Y 0‑N)

Seventh Judicial District: Shawn W. Overbey

Seventh Judicial District: Kimberly A. Kurkjian

Ninth Judicial District: Brian J. Smalls

Ninth Judicial District: Mara M. Matthews

Fourteenth Judicial District: Stacy E. Lee

Fifteenth Judicial District: Andrea M. Stewart

Nineteenth Judicial District: Melissa S. Cardoce

Nineteenth Judicial District: Melinda L. VanLowe

Twenty-second Judicial District: Robert Bryan Haskins (nominated but not elected)

Twenty-second Judicial District: Theresa Deanna P. Stone

Twenty-third Judicial District: Heather P. Ferguson

Twenty-fifth Judicial District: Robert C. Hagan, Jr.

A Member of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission (39‑Y 0‑N)

Kenneth R. Melvin

Reading of report waived (35‑Y 0‑N)

CALENDAR (continued)

REGULAR CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING

HB 1864 - Read third time, McClellan floor substitute agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Passed Senate (21-Y 17-N)

HB 1990 - Read third time, Committee amendment agreed to (voice vote), Morrissey floor amendment rejected (14-Y 24-N), Engrossed, Passed Senate (20-Y 18-N)

HB 2035 - Read third time, Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)

HB 2065 - Read third time, Passed Senate (37-Y 1-N), Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N), Passed Senate (38-Y 0-N)

HB 2284 - Read third time, Passed Senate (25-Y 13-N)

UNCONTESTED CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING

HB 1775 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB 1877 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB 1881 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB 1964 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB 2062 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB 2121 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB 2134 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

REGULAR CALENDAR

HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING

HB 1862 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

HB 2326 - Rules suspended, constitutional reading dispensed block vote (38-Y 0-N), Passed by for day

UNCONTESTED CALENDAR

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS ON THIRD READING

HJ 525 - Read third time, Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)

HJ 562 - Read third time, Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)

HJ 563 - Read third time, Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)

HJ 583 - Read third time, Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)

HJ 596 - Read third time, Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)

HJ 605 - Read third time, Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)

HJ 606 - Read third time, Agreed to by Senate block vote (voice vote)

HJ 537 - Out of block, Read third time, Agreed to by Senate (voice vote)

HJ 579 - Out of block, Read third time, Agreed to by Senate (37-Y 0-N)

HJ 604 - Out of block, Read third time, Agreed to by Senate (38-Y 0-N)

REGULAR CALENDAR

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTIONS ON THIRD READING

HJ 538 - Read third time, Committee amendments agreed to (voice vote), Engrossed, Agreed to by Senate (voice vote)

HJ 578 - Read third time, Agreed to by Senate (voice vote)

On motion of Senator Saslaw, the Senate recessed at 3:50 p.m. to reconvene at 4:05 p.m.

The Senate reconvened at 4:05 p.m.

On motion of Senator Lucas, the Senate adjourned at 4:18 p.m. to convene Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 10:30 a.m.