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2016 SESSION
Senator Janet D. Howell (D) - Senate District 32
In-session address:
- General Assembly Building, Room 321
- Capitol Square
- Richmond, Virginia 23219
- email: district32@senate.virginia.gov
Mailing address:
- P.O. Box 2608
- Reston, Virginia 20195-0608
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- HB 50 Passing stopped school buses; mailing of summons to owner of vehicle.
- HB 149 Concealed handgun permits; individuals on federal Terrorist Screening Database.
- HB 300 Virginia Fair Housing Law; unlawful discrimination, definition of sexual orientation, etc.
- HB 392 Family and Children's Trust Fund; revenue matching for special license plates for supporters.
- HB 424 Firearms; possession in school zone, regulation by locality.
- HB 477 Veterans care centers; issuance of bonds for certain projects.
- HB 495 Synthetic turf; three-year moratorium on installation at schools and parks.
- HB 539 Income tax, corporate; lowers rate of taxation.
- HB 540 Income tax, state; increases deduction for personal exemptions.
- HB 959 Women's Right to Vote, Commission for Commemoration of Centennial of; established.
- HB 1376 Claims; Paul R. DesRoches II.
- HJ 4 Celebrating the life of Emily Elizabeth Selke.
- HJ 5 Celebrating the life of Yvonne Marie Ciarlo Selke.
- HJ 8 Celebrating the life of George Albert Williams.
- HJ 33 Commending Friends of Falls Church Homeless Shelter.
- HJ 44 Commending the Honorable John C. Watkins.
- HJ 54 Commending Mary Ann Moran.
- HJ 60 Celebrating the life of Charles Rinker.
- HJ 71 Commending Temple Emanuel.
- HJ 89 Celebrating the life of Ernestine K. Middleton.
- HJ 158 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Thomas W. Moss, Jr.
- HJ 197 Chagas Disease Awareness Day; designating as April 14, 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- HJ 218 Commending Angela West.
- HJ 223 Celebrating the life of Priscilla Ames.
- HJ 256 Commending the Westfield High School football team.
- HJ 274 Commending Arlington Thrive.
- HJ 276 Commending Google.
- HJ 277 Commending Amy's Amigos.
- HJ 278 Commending Bechtel Corporation.
- HJ 279 Commending Wiygul Automotive Clinic.
- HJ 284 Commending the Commonwealth Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.
- HJ 295 Commending Dennis Ellmer.
- HJ 297 Commending Anne Marie Canali Hermann.
- HJ 302 Celebrating the life of William J. Wilde.
- HJ 304 Commending Michael Burnett.
- HJ 317 Commending the Honorable Mamye E. BaCote.
- HJ 322 Commending Chris Mamalis.
- HJ 334 Celebrating the life of Morgan Anthony Ayres.
- HJ 335 Celebrating the life of Corporal Harvey Snook III, ACPD.
- HJ 345 Commending The Boeing Company.
- HJ 346 Commending Just Neighbors.
- HJ 347 Indigenous Peoples Day.
- HJ 351 Commending the Honorable James Martin Scott.
- HJ 352 Commending the American Association of University Women of Falls Church.
- HJ 353 Commending the Unitarian Universalist Church of Roanoke.
- HJ 361 Commending the Virginia members of Team USA at the 2015 Pan American Maccabi Games.
- HJ 365 Commending the McLean Community Foundation.
- HJ 366 Commending McLean Orchestra.
- HJ 367 Commending McLean Little League.
- HJ 371 Commending Patrick Henry Elementary School.
- HJ 377 Commending the McLean High School wrestling team.
- HJ 382 Commending Conner Cummings.
- HJ 389 Commending Drew Hunter.
- HJ 390 Commending Katherine Slover.
- HJ 403 Commending Jason Steinbaum.
- HJ 409 Commending Sergeant First Class Charles Martland, USA.
- HJ 413 Commending the 2015 World Police and Fire Games.
- HJ 423 Celebrating the life of Horace Julian Bond.
- HJ 431 Celebrating the life of David V. Burds.
- HJ 432 Commending the Shirlington Employment and Education Center.
- HJ 443 Commending the Honorable Allen H. Harrison, Jr.
- HJ 444 Commending the Honorable Esther L. Wiggins.
- HJ 447 Commending the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization.
- HJ 458 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Antonin Gregory Scalia.
- HJ 485 Commending Virginia Capitol Connections.
- HJ 492 Celebrating the life of James Douglas Owens.
- HJ 493 Commending Dr. Emma Violand-Sanchez.
- HJ 505 Commending Denny Hamlin.
- HJ 514 Commending the Hall's Hill/High View Park neighborhood.
- HJ 516 Commending Stephen L. Sellers.
- HR 231 Commending the Oakton High School girls' basketball team.
- HR 232 Commending Corey Thornblad.
- SB 10 Same-sex marriages; civil unions.
- SB 53 Ultrasound prior to abortion.
- SB 106 Absentee voting; no-excuse, in-person.
- SB 155 Cigarette taxes; increase of tax in Fairfax and Arlington Counties.
- SB 156 Concealed handgun permit; family member who resides with applicant may submit statement to court.
- SB 164 Consumer finance loans; rate of interest.
- SB 165 Open-end credit agreements; sellers of certain goods to extend credit.
- SB 166 Motor vehicle title lenders; narrows exemption for consumer finance companies.
- SB 167 Consumer finance companies; annual reports.
- SB 220 Firearm transfers; penalties.
- SB 221 Discrimination between employees on the basis of sex; payment of wages.
- SB 222 Voter registration; automatic voter registration.
- SB 323 Firearms; no person who is subject to an emergency protective order.
- SB 326 Corporate income tax; rate of taxation.
- SB 335 Public employment; inquiries by state agencies and localities regarding criminal convictions.
- SB 406 Consumer finance companies; open-end credit plans, sharing location with motor vehicle title lender.
- SB 415 Emancipation petition for minors intending to marry; written findings.
- SB 641 Certificate of public need.
- SJ 9 Constitutional amendment (first resolution); marriage.
- SJ 15 Celebrating the life of Paul E. Torgersen.
- SJ 17 Commending M. Douglas Scott.
- SJ 18 Commending Barbara Donnellan.
- SJ 19 Commending Susanne Eisner.
- SJ 52 Celebrating the life of Joseph Anthony DiJulio.
- SJ 55 Celebrating the life of Chief Warrant Officer Joseph Bernard Wisniewski, Jr., USA, Ret.
- SJ 56 Celebrating the life of George Burke.
- SJ 62 Wear Red Day; designating as first Friday in February 2017, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 72 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Thomas W. Moss, Jr.
- SJ 99 Commending Frank Beamer.
- SJ 101 Purple Heart State; designating as the Commonwealth of Virginia.
- SJ 102 Purple Heart Day; designating as August 7, 2016, and each succeeding year thereafter.
- SJ 108 Commending Harry Taft Rutherford, Jr.
- SJ 116 Commending Colonel Wesley L. Fox, USMC, Ret.
- SJ 130 Commending Paul D. Fraim.
- SJ 139 Commending the 30th anniversary of elementary school counseling in Virginia.
- SJ 143 Celebrating the life of Elaine Nunez McConnell.
- SJ 148 Commending David Bailey Associates.
- SJ 149 Celebrating the life of John Stewart Bryan III.
- SJ 153 Commending Law Enforcement United.
- SJ 156 Commending Savannah Morgan Lane.
- SJ 159 Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Leedstown Resolutions.
- SJ 160 Celebrating the life of Peggy Ann Tyree-Wells.
- SJ 162 Celebrating the life of Darwin E. Rogers.
- SJ 163 Commending the Washington Redskins.
- SJ 171 Commending Fred Whyte.
- SJ 172 Commending Community Residences, Inc.
- SJ 176 Commending Gulf Branch Nature Center.
- SJ 183 Celebrating the life of the Honorable Madison Ellis Marye.
- SJ 186 Commending the Arlington County Civic Federation.
- SJ 196 Celebrating the life of Officer Ashley Marie Guindon.
- SJ 199 Celebrating the life of Crystal Sheree Hamilton.
- SJ 202 Commending the Virginia State University men's basketball team.
- SJ 203 Celebrating the life of Jerald Teresa Hickman-Joyner.
- SJ 210 Commending Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward Byers.
- SJ 213 Commending Carl Lum.
- SJ 215 Celebrating the life of Tiffany May Joslyn.
- SR 16 Celebrating the life of Jesse Clingenpeel.
- SR 17 Commending Frank Beamer.
- SR 31 Commending the James River Association.
- SR 36 Commending the University of Virginia baseball team.
- SR 44 Commending Johnye Bennett.
- SR 49 Commending the Lake Braddock Secondary School coed cross country team.
- SR 50 Commending the Robinson Secondary School girls' lacrosse team.
- SR 51 Commending the Westfield High School football team.
- SR 52 Commending West Springfield High School.
- SR 56 Celebrating the life of Senior Trooper Michael P. Dooley.
- SR 60 Commending Maryann Horch.
- SR 69 Celebrating the life of Colonel Fred V. Cherry, Sr., USAF, Ret.
- SR 70 Celebrating the life of the Reverend Henry Blunt.
- SR 80 Commending the Reverend Dr. Charles A. Summers.
- SR 89 Commending the Honorable Teena D. Grodner.
- SR 90 Commending the Honorable Thomas E. Gallahue.
- SR 91 Commending the Honorable Ian M. O’Flaherty.
- SR 92 Celebrating the life of Walter Willson Craigie, Jr.
- SR 95 Celebrating the life of Police Chief George T. Owens.