Constitutional amendment; powers of General Assembly, suspension of portions of administrative rule. (HJ515)

Introduced By

Sen. Chris Head (R-Roanoke) with support from co-patrons Del. David Ramadan (R-South Riding), and Del. Michael Webert (R-Marshall)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate

Description

Constitutional amendment (first resolution); powers of General Assembly; limitations. Provides that the General Assembly may suspend or nullify any or all portions of any administrative rule or regulation by joint resolution agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each house. When the General Assembly is not in a regular session, a standing committee of each house acting jointly or a joint legislative commission as designated by the General Assembly may suspend any or all portions of any administrative rule or regulation until the end of the next regular session. Read the Bill »

Status

02/24/2015: Passed the Senate

History

DateAction
12/09/2014Committee
12/09/2014Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/14/15 15100541D
12/09/2014Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
01/13/2015Assigned P & E sub: Constitutional Amendments
02/02/2015Subcommittee recommends reporting (7-Y 0-N)
02/06/2015Reported from Privileges and Elections (12-Y 9-N) (see vote tally)
02/09/2015Taken up
02/09/2015Engrossed by House
02/09/2015Agreed to by House (61-Y 32-N)
02/09/2015VOTE: ADOPTION (61-Y 32-N) (see vote tally)
02/10/2015Reading waived
02/10/2015Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections
02/17/2015Reported from Privileges and Elections with amendment (8-Y 6-N) (see vote tally)
02/19/2015Reading waived (38-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/20/2015Blank Action
02/20/2015Read third time
02/20/2015Reading of amendment waived
02/20/2015Committee amendment agreed to
02/20/2015Passed by for the day
02/23/2015Read third time
02/23/2015Engrossed by Senate as amended
02/23/2015Agreed to by Senate with amendment (21-Y 19-N) (see vote tally)
02/23/2015Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/23/2015Passed by for the day
02/24/2015Read third time
02/24/2015Rejected by Senate (19-Y 20-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2015Reconsideration of defeated action agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2015Agreed to by Senate with amendment (21-Y 18-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2015Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2015Rejected by Senate (20-Y 19-N) (see vote tally)
02/24/2015Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 2 clips in all, totaling 4 minutes.

Duplicate Bills

The following bills are identical to this one: SJ305.

Comments

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