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2009 SESSION
Delegate Donald W. Merricks (R) - House District 16
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 810
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: DelDMerricks@house.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box K
- Chatham, Virginia 24531
Legislation as Co-Patron: (registered users: create report or csv file)
- HB 1598 Certificate of public need; criteria for determining need and method of filing.
- HB 1633 Offshore drilling; apportions royalties that State receives to certain funds and programs.
- HB 1645 Highway system construction, urban; not more than 1/3 of funds to be used to reimburse locality.
- HB 1646 Charter; City of Danville.
- HB 1647 Retirement benefits; City of Danville to provide for deputy sheriffs.
- HB 1727 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; created, report.
- HB 1732 Veterans Services, Department of; processing of disability claims.
- HB 1853 Mental Retardation Waiver and IFDDS Waiver; Governor to plan to eliminate urgent care waiting lists.
- HB 1883 Commonwealth, Secretary of; redesigns Lobbyist Disclosure Statement to clarify information.
- HB 1943 Optometrists; those licensed may sell contact lenses & allowed to dispense ophthalmic devices.
- HB 1967 Taxpayer Surplus Relief Fund; established to provide tax relief.
- HB 2024 Health insurance, basic; increasing availability thereof in State.
- HB 2044 Health information technology; Information Technology Investment Board establish advisory committee.
- HB 2055 Development rights; makes extensive changes to provisions for making transfer process more usable.
- HB 2126 Employing illegal aliens; relocate provision requiring cancellation of limited liability companies.
- HB 2172 Renewable energy sources; location of facilities for distribution of electricity, steam, etc.
- HB 2174 Retention of energy savings by state agencies; established.
- HB 2175 Small renewable energy projects; DEQ to develop procedure permitting construction and operation.
- HB 2314 State Police Volunteer Chaplaincy Program; established.
- HB 2394 Personal information privacy; prohibits sale of credit inquiry information to third parties.
- HB 2402 Identity theft; obtaining money, credit, etc. without authorization is prohibited under statutes.
- HB 2426 Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act; extends implementation of prohibition.
- HB 2427 Protection of Social Security Numbers Act; first five digits to be confidential from disclosure.
- HB 2437 Income tax, corporate; apportionment for manufacturers.
- HB 2550 Economic development; incentive financing for major employment and investment projects, report.
- HB 2630 Law-Enforcement Officers' Privacy Protection Act; allows personal information to be withheld.
- HJ 640 Constitutional amendment; right to work (first reference).
- HJ 655 Commending the Virginia Farm Bureau's Young Farmers.
- HJ 683 Retailers for Life Month; designating as April 2009, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 685 Commemorating the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.
- HJ 745 Celebrating the life of Frederick Wayne Hutchins, Jr.
- HJ 753 Commending Stephanie A. Doyle
- HJ 774 Celebrating the life of Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Emmanuel McNeal.
- HJ 781 Commending the Virginia Credit Union League.
- HJ 784 Commending the Gretna High School football team.
- HJ 785 Commending Cadet Gregory E. Lippiatt.
- HJ 808 Celebrating the life of James Marshall Smith.
- HJ 809 Celebrating the life of Jean Claire Smith.
- HJ 825 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Charles Wesley Gunn, Jr.
- HJ 829 Commending Virginia Catholic Schools.
- HJ 834 Commending Carol B. Motley.
- HJ 835 Commending Carol Metz.
- HJ 847 Commending Timothy J. Gette.
- HJ 859 Celebrating the life of Shelton L. Darden, Sr.
- HJ 892 Celebrating the life of Thomas Vander Woude.
- HJ 904 Celebrating the life of Johnny Earl Morphew, Jr.
- HJ 927 Celebrating the life of Delilah Mangum.
- HJ 928 Celebrating the life of Shirley Louise LaPrade.
- HJ 935 Commending Ralph South.
- HJ 936 Commending Daniel R. Waters.
- HJ 937 Commending William H. Fuller III.
- HJ 938 Commending Frank R. Campbell.
- HJ 946 Celebrating the life of Kenneth Wade Parr.
- HJ 974 Commending Robert S. Bowers, Jr.
- HJ 987 Commending First Lieutenant Joe Louis Hairston.
- HJ 993 Commending the George Pearis Cemetery Committee.
- HJ 995 Celebrating the life of Clay T. Whitehead.
- HJ 1002 Commending Michael Hershman.
- HJ 1024 Commending Dovie Ferrell.
- HJ 1026 Commending James E. Dooley.
- HJ 1027 Commending the American National Bank and Trust Company.
- HJ 1032 Celebrating the life of Frances Ellen Daly.
- HJ 1033 Celebrating the life of Samuel Clifford Crutchfield.
- HJ 1035 Celebrating the life of Sue Edmondson Wilder.
- HR 39 ROTC program; higher educational institutions encouraged to support by providing academic credit.
- HR 59 Celebrating the life of Mary Austin Campbell Hughes.
- HR 63 Commending the Family Foundation of Virginia.
- HR 65 Commending the First National Bank of Altavista.
- SB 918 New College Institute & Southern Virginia Higher Education Center; exempt from Personnel Act.
- SB 919 Retirement System; retirees may be hired as teachers without interrupting retirement benefits.
- SB 1512 Veterans Services, Department of; required to provide burial vaults at no cost to eligible veterans.
- SJ 274 Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week; designating as third week of September 2009.
- SJ 298 Celebrating the life of Benjamin H. Bolen.
- SJ 299 Celebrating the life of William Randolph Dyer.
- SJ 300 Celebrating the life of Jessie Hanby Key.
- SJ 301 Celebrating the life of Avis H. Collier
- SJ 391 Celebrating the life of Leslie Funk Herdegen Rohrer.
- SJ 398 Celebrating the life of Joseph V. Gartlan, Jr.
- SJ 448 Commending the Virginia Economic Bridge on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
- SJ 463 Commending First Baptist Church, Martinsville on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.
- SJ 471 Commending William H. Fuller III.
- SJ 473 Commending the Gretna High School football team.
- SJ 505 Commending Hargrave Military Academy on the occasion of its 100th anniversary.
- SJ 506 Celebrating the life of Clyde L. Banks, Sr.
- SJ 507 Celebrating the life of Claude L. Emerson.