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1996 SESSION
Senator Charles J. Colgan (D) - Senate District 29
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 413
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
Mailing address:
- 10660 Aviation Lane
- Manassas, Virginia 20110-2701
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- HB 40 Tow trucks; registration.
- HB 41 Motor carriers; temporary service authority.
- HB 42 Charter; City of Manassas.
- HB 43 Charter; City of Manassas.
- HB 212 Conspiracy to commit felony & solicitation involving minors; penalty.
- HB 277 Assisted suicide.
- HB 286 Capital murder.
- HB 287 Property tax exemption; Knights of Columbus, Prince William County.
- HB 288 Number of juvenile and domestic relations district court judges.
- HB 289 Vacancies on elected school boards.
- HB 290 Notification of arrest of school employees.
- HB 291 Child abuse and neglect; protective services.
- HB 292 Federal retirees missing deadline for filing.
- HB 293 BPOL tax uniform ordinance.
- HB 371 Distribution of recordation tax to localities.
- HB 401 Contracting with auditors.
- HB 402 Contract collectors of delinquent state taxes.
- HB 420 Professional and occupational licenses; late charges.
- HB 421 Elections; emergency absentee applications and ballots.
- HB 423 Secrecy of tax information.
- HB 433 Pledge of Allegiance in public schools.
- HB 492 Banking and finance; notice of intent to acquire an out-of-state bank.
- HB 493 Semiconductor Memory or Logic Wafer Man. Perf. Grant Program.
- HB 497 Optional performance-based regulation of gas utilities.
- HB 569 Child Day Care and Early Childhood Programs, Council on; abolished.
- HB 589 Corporations; general powers and special kinds of business.
- HB 592 Department of Forestry regulation of railroad rights-of-way.
- HB 593 Soil and Water Conservation Board.
- HB 616 Spousal abuse statement in marriage pamphlet.
- HB 666 Special license plates; Virginians for the Arts.
- HB 668 Income tax, state; subtraction for Bosnia military service pay.
- HB 680 Fair Housing Law; enforcement of localities.
- HB 812 Practice of Optometry.
- HB 888 Receipts for payment of local taxes.
- HB 1085 Child Day-Care Council; abolished.
- HB 1133 Railroads; grade crossing safety, maintenance.
- HB 1163 Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Tunnel Compact.
- HB 1164 Special license plates; firefighters and ride-sharing vehicles.
- HB 1193 School-To-Work Transition Grants Program and Fund; created.
- HB 1225 Multi-county transportation improvement districts.
- HB 1226 Affordable dwelling unit ordinances.
- HB 1322 Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; cable service.
- HB 1328 Certificates of public need; moratorium, exception.
- HB 1402 Commonwealth Transportation Fund; use of interest.
- HB 1448 Economic Development Partnership; created.
- HB 1449 Department of Business Assistance; created.
- HB 1486 Special license plates; ride-sharing vehicles.
- HB 1497 BPOL tax; software manufacturers' exemption.
- HB 1519 Income tax, state; credit for caregivers.
- HB 1525 School drop out prevention programs.
- HJ 60 Commending Virginia Tech football team.
- HJ 62 Commending Sheriff Wilson C. Garrison.
- HJ 88 Study; State and Local Govt. and Taxing Authority; continued.
- HJ 100 Study; encouraging organ donation.
- HJ 117 Study; school construction.
- HJ 118 Study; exclusive insurance agents.
- HJ 241 Study; school drop out prevention.
- HJ 248 Constitutional amendment; Literary Fund.
- HJ 261 On the deaths of Donald Ellis Curtis and Christine Gravely Curtis.
- HJ 300 On the death of Marion Virginia Engle Hazel.
- HJ 306 On the death of Donald Archer Holden.
- HJ 319 Commending Maurice 'Mo' Vaughn.
- HJ 328 SAVE Month and SAVE Today for Tomorrow Day.
- HJ 358 Commending George W. Johnson.
- HJ 363 Commending Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
- HJ 364 Commending Virginia's Olympic torch bearers.
- SB 15 Murder in course of an abduction.
- SB 25 Abortion; minors; notification.
- SB 29 Budget Bill, 1994-96 biennium.
- SB 30 Budget Bill. 1996-98 biennium.
- SB 80 Abortion; minors; notification.
- SB 94 Serious juvenile offenders.
- SB 122 Nursing homes or certified nursing facilities.
- SB 123 Unfunded scholarships; public institutions of higher education.
- SB 177 Distribution of recordation tax to localities.
- SB 185 Laboratory Services Advisory Board; abolished.
- SB 219 Electronic filings with circuit courts.
- SB 224 Electric service to federal governmental facility; SCC jurisdiction.
- SB 236 Transition from city to town status; restriction on annexation.
- SB 237 Transition of city to town status.
- SB 238 Semiconductor Wafers Manufacturing Performance Grant Program.
- SB 239 Technology needs of Department of Taxation.
- SB 241 Service districts.
- SB 242 Insurance; unfair settlement practices standards for hospital stay.
- SB 243 Special license plates; supporters of Virginia state parks.
- SB 248 Public utilities; special rates, alternative forms of regulation.
- SB 269 Condominium Act.
- SB 273 Railroads; grade crossing safety, maintenance.
- SB 285 Coal and Energy Commission; members.
- SB 286 Coalfield Economic Development Authority.
- SB 295 Department of General Services; sale of surplus property.
- SB 298 Freedom of Information Act; exemptions.
- SB 314 Vegetative waste.
- SB 330 Practice of optometry.
- SB 395 Freedom of Information Act; exemptions.
- SB 397 Workers' compensation; obligations of persons compensation.
- SB 398 Workers' compensation; temporary payments.
- SB 400 Workers' compensation; employee report of address change.
- SB 476 Gas and Oil Act.
- SB 488 Use of candidate's name in name of political committee.
- SB 542 Insurance agents; certain disclosure required.
- SB 565 Economic growth sharing agreements.
- SB 566 Regional Competitiveness Act; created.
- SB 584 Local technology zones.
- SB 590 Insurance; conversion to domestic stock insurer.
- SB 610 Business Assistance, Department of; created.
- SB 611 Economic Development Partnership; created.
- SB 618 Investment of public funds.
- SB 619 Income tax, state; earned-income credit.
- SJ 9 Commending Stonewall Jackson High School golf team.
- SJ 10 Commending Central High School boys' cross-country team.
- SJ 33 Commending John Handley High School girls' tennis team.
- SJ 35 Study; Western Transp. Corridor Study Policy Advisory Committee.
- SJ 38 On the death of Virginius Dabney.
- SJ 40 On the death of D. Jerlene Harding.
- SJ 44 Commending Dana B. Hamel.
- SJ 87 Constitutional amendment; Literary Fund.
- SJ 88 Study; school construction.
- SJ 94 Commending employees of Department of Transportation.
- SJ 98 Constitutional amendment; bill of rights, parental rights.
- SJ 101 Study; options for financing major league baseball stadium.
- SJ 106 Commending Virginia Girls State.
- SJ 118 Study; development of a competitive electric utility industry.
- SJ 125 On the death of Barbara Jordan.
- SJ 130 Commending N. Bruce Miller.
- SJ 134 Commending Jack Hodge.
- SJ 135 Commending Charles H. Bowens II.
- SJ 136 Commending Jason Rotz.
- SJ 137 Commending Lee Ellsworth Lowery.
- SJ 141 Commending George C. Crawley.
- SJ 146 United States Constitution, balanced budget amendment.
- SJ 151 Commending Saint Gertrude High School basketball team.
- SJ 152 Commending Frank Beamer.
- SJ 156 Commending the Winchester Star.
- SJ 159 Acts of bigotry and hatred.
- SJ 160 On the death of Bishop Thomas E. Talley.
- SJ 161 Commending Tim Sullivan, Jared Legg, and Rafael Vargas.
- SJ 164 Commending Junius H. Williams, Portsmouth's First Citizen for 1995.
- SJ 174 On the death of George Nicholas Psimas.
- SJ 175 Commending Mary Waters.
- SR 19 Commending A. Lonnie Brand, Jr.