Senator George Barker (D-Alexandria)
- Party
- Democratic
- District
- 39: Fairfax County (Part), Prince William County (Part), Alexandria City (Part) [map]
- Took Office
- January 2008
- Next Election
- November 2015
- Committees
- Education and Health, General Laws and Technology, Rehabilitation and Social Services
- Age
- 61
- Website
- senatorbarker.com
- Copatroning Habits
- 68% of bills he copatroned were introduced by Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of his bills, 69% of them are Democrats. Of all of the copatrons of all of the bills that he also copatroned, 56% of them are Democrats.
- Partisanship
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- Tag Cloud
- Bills Passed
- 23.7% in 2013
- Bio
Associate director of the Health Systems Agency of Northern Virginia. Holds a BA and an MS from Harvard. Married with two grown children.
| Donor | Sector | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia Democratic Party | Democratic Party committees | $281,419 |
| Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus | Democratic Party committees | $76,900 |
| Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee | Democratic Party committees | $50,000 |
| Moving Virginia Forward | Democratic-based groups (but not official party committees) and generic liberal/progressive ones | $50,000 |
| Rappaport Companies | Real estate agents & managers | $32,500 |
| Leadership For Virginia | Republican-based groups (but not official party committees) and generic conservative ones | $25,000 |
| One Virginia | PACs operated by Democratic state politicians | $25,000 |
| Virginia League Of Conservation Voters | Environmental policy | $22,419 |
| Human Rights Campaign | Gay & lesbian rights and issues | $13,040 |
| Mammen Group | Political consultants & advisers | $12,572 |
Data provided by The National Institute on Money in State Politics.
Prince William Chamber of Commerce | Chamber's Annual ...May 7, 2013 |
Legislators try to crack down on texting while driving | Downtown ...February 4, 2013 |
Legislative Update – Senator George L. Barker, VA-39 ...January 25, 2013 |
Virginia Senate Narrowly Passes Redistricting Measure - Old Town ...January 22, 2013 |
Del. Anderson and Sen. Barker to Hold Joint Legislative Town Hall ...January 11, 2013 |
Metro Weekly: Va.'s Family Foundation legislative ratings highlight LGBT partisan divideMay 18, 2013 |
Patch.com: Lt. Gov. Race: Democrat Aneesh Chopra Coming to Lorton and Springfield ...May 14, 2013 |
These are all of the video clips of George Barker’s remarks on the floor of the Senate since 2009. There are 92 video clips in all.
Index
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Bills
- SB207: Elections; extension of polling hours.
- SB211: Comptroller; assignment of general fund balance remaining at year end.
- SB213: Highway maintenance; allocation of funds by CTB for maintenance of assets within Interstate System.
- SB214: Breach of medical information; notification.
- SB216: Retirement System; law-enforcement officer retirees hired as school board security personnel.
- SB218: Parental rights; procedure for restoration, child to consent to restoration of rights.
- SB372: Community Colleges, State Board for; development of mental health services.
- SB376: Shared work programs; established, report.
- SB837: License plates, special; issuance for supporters of Washington Nationals baseball team.
- SB843: Alcohol, open container; no person shall possess in passenger area of motor vehicle, civil penalty.
- SB875: Provisional driver's license holders; changes from secondary offense to primary use of cell phones.
- SB960: Public schools; residency of children in kinship care.
- SB996: Temporary detention orders; increases maximum duration person may be detained from 48 to 72 hours.
- SB997: Incapacitated persons; photographs, x-rays, etc., may be taken as part of medical evaluation, etc.
- SB1006: Physician, licensed, etc.; may perform procedure for physical evidence recovery kit examination.
- SB1075: Transportation projects and planning; reimbursement of VDOT by localities, etc.
- SB1076: Parental rights; procedure for restoring to parent whose rights to his child have been terminated.
- SB1078: Community Colleges, State Board for; Board shall develop mental health referral policies, etc.
- SB1150: Elections; minimizing voting lines.
- SB1151: Virginia Student Achievement Fund; established.
- SB1153: Public schools; changes in instructional time for kindergarten.
- SB1155: Electoral boards; appointments shall be on nonpartisan basis.
- SB1156: Teacher compensation; State goal that public school teacher compensation be nationally competitive.
- SB1157: Commonwealth Teaching Fellows Program; established.
- SB1158: Standards of Learning; regulations authorizing school divisions to determine date for administering.
- SB1160: Driving while texting; primary offense, increased penalties.
- SB1162: Standards of Learning; Board of Education to promulgate regulations.
- SB1167: Student growth indicators; Board of Education shall develop by October 1, 2014, report.
- SB1230: Unemployment compensation; establishes short-time compensation program, report, effective date.
- SB1238: Handheld personal communications devices; texting while driving is punishable as reckless driving.
- SB1251: Retirement System; law-enforcement officer retirees hired as school board security personnel.
- SB1274: Tanning facilities; age limit, parental consent.
- SB1293: Comprehensive plan; transportation component to be consistent with Statewide Transportation Plan.
- SB1300: Virtual school programs; multidivision online providers, funding.
- SB1325: Professional counselors, etc.; Board of Counseling to establish specified fees for licensure, etc.
- SB1367: Health insurance; local government employees eligibile to participate in state employee plan.
- SJ48: Virginia Retirement System; JLARC to study system for determining eligibility for disability claims.
- SJ74: Constitutional amendment; real property tax exemption for surviving spouse of disabled veterans.
- SB204: Children in foster care; school placement.
- SB205: Forensic evidence; delay in collecting for sexual assault cases.
- SB206: Alcohol, open container; no person shall possess in passenger area of motor vehicle, civil penalty.
- SB207: Elections; extension of polling hours.
- SB208: Driver's license; changes period of administrative suspension for a DUI from seven to 60 days.
- SB209: HOV lanes; extends sunset provision on use by vehicles with clean special fuel license plates.
- SB210: Driver's license holders, provisional; makes cell phone use while driving a primary offense.
- SB211: Comptroller; assignment of general fund balance remaining at year end.
- SB212: High occupancy toll (HOT) lanes; construction contracts.
- SB213: Highway maintenance; allocation of funds by CTB for maintenance of assets within Interstate System.
- SB214: Breach of medical information; notification.
- SB215: Bond administration; reimbursement of administrative costs.
- SB216: Retirement System; law-enforcement officer retirees hired as school board security personnel.
- SB217: Public schools; residency of children in kinship care.
- SB218: Parental rights; procedure for restoration.
- SB219: Handheld personal communications devices; penalty if text messaging and emailing while driving.
- SB371: Judicial authorization of treatment; advance directives.
- SB372: Community Colleges, State Board for; development of mental health services.
- SB373: Higher educational institutions; establishment of violence prevention committees, etc.
- SB374: Higher educational institutions; mental health and parental notification policies.
- SB375: Higher educational institutions; may require any accepted student provide complete record.
- SB376: Shared work programs; established, report.
- SB458: Suicidal students; higher educational institutions shall develop policies addressing.
- SB580: Virtual programs; state funding.
- SB633: Bicycles; makes hitherto local-option bicycle helmet law applicable statewide.
- SJ48: Virginia Retirement System; JLARC to study system for determining eligibility for disability claims.
- SJ49: Retirement Communities, Continuing Care; Virginia Housing Commission to study.
- SJ50: Dental disease, untreated; Joint Commission on Health Care to study fiscal impact to State.
- SJ74: Constitutional amendment; real property tax exemption for surviving spouse of disabled veterans.
- SJ130: United States Constitution; General Assembly of Va. to ratify and affirm Equal Rights Amendment.
- SJ153: Commending David Curtin.
- SJ200: Commending the Gar-Field High School boys basketball team.
- SJ235: Commending Willie F. Bailey.
- SB208: Family or household member; expands definition.
- SB550: State and local transportation planning; provides for coordination with DRPT.
- SB551: Rezoning actions, local; provides for more limited review by VDOT.
- SB682: Public schools; school board to report to Superintendent of Public Instruction recycling policies.
- SB1030: Primaries; state will reimburse localities for costs of statewide and federal elections.
- SB1031: Public schools; allows local school divisions to keep any funds from State for use next year.
- SB1032: Revenue Stabilization Fund; Auditor of Public Accounts to calculate maximum size of Fund.
- SB1033: Continuing care retirement community; no less than 20% of board shall be residents of facility.
- SB1034: HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates.
- SB1035: Open container of alcohol; passenger in motor vehicle shall not possess, civil penalty.
- SB1036: Direct recording electronic voting machines (DREs); localities to modify to meet legal mandates.
- SB1037: Foster care plan; eliminates independent living as permanency goal option.
- SB1038: Foster care; allows child placed in care to remain at his original school.
- SB1039: Certificate of public need; removes an exception for requirements for certain nursing facilities.
- SB1040: Foster care; placement of child through an agreement between parents and local board.
- SB1041: Breach of medical information; adds private entities are required to provide notice.
- SB1042: Handheld personal communications device; texting while driving.
- SB1043: Claims; certain employees of the Prince William Health Department.
- SB1044: Highway maintenance allocations; allocation by CTB for maintenance of assets.
- SB1045: Retail Sales and Use Tax; exemption for certain computer equipment and enabling software.
- SB1046: Retirement System; benefits for law-enforcement retirees hired as school board security personnel.
- SB1047: Driver's license holders, provisional; makes cell phone use while driving a primary offense.
- SB1048: HOT lane construction contracts; requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using facility.
- SB1049: Public Procurement Act; state agencies to include in contract that contractor use E-Verify program.
- SB1050: Governor's Development Opportunity Fund; criteria for grants or loans from Fund.
- SB1051: Elections; extension of polling hours.
- SB1052: Domestic absentee voters; provide information concerning legal residence in Virginia.
- SB1053: General fund balance; assignment of year-end general fund surplus.
- SB1073: Real estate tax relief; for the elderly and permanently and totally disabled.
- SB1074: Tuition, in-state; person of other state meeting requirements called to National Guard is eligible.
- SB1075: Administrative suspension of license; changes period upon arrest for a DUI from seven to 60 days.
- SB1076: Elections; recount procedures.
- SB1077: International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement examinations; clarifies eligibility for credit.
- SB1078: Child care; administration of certain medicines of those regulated by local government.
- SB1219: Medical services at hospitals; charges by physician & surgeon who are not members of provider panel.
- SB1220: Va. Residential Landlord Tenant Act; landlord to provide notice to tenant in event of foreclosure.
- SB1221: Local rezoning actions; limited review by VDOT.
- SB1222: Protective orders; expands class of persons eligible to obtain.
- SB1223: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Funding Pool; established.
- SB1224: TANF; establishes Fund, State to support agencies, etc., seeking to assist low-income Virginians.
- SB1388: Retained asset accounts; to provide beneficiary at time a claim is made.
- SB1391: Tuition, in-state; eligibility for veterans who elect to establish Virginia as residence.
- SB1448: Cambridge Advanced Exams; course credit.
- SB1449: Bisphenol A-Free Children and Babies Act; created, prohibiting sale of certain child-care products.
- SJ52: Continuing care retirement community; SCC to study management and need for resident representation.
- SJ346: Public schools; requests Department of Education to study recycling education in schools.
- SB208: Family or household member; expands definition.
- SB209: International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement courses; course credit.
- SB210: Nutritional guidelines; Board & VDH to develop for all competitive foods in public schools, report.
- SB211: School boards, local; disciplinary authority.
- SB212: Overload and overweight permits; Transportation Board, et al. to establish new schedule of fees.
- SB213: Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel.
- SB223: Motor fuels tax; converts rates of taxation from cents per gallon to percentage rates.
- SB224: Medical information; notification to residents if their information is subject of database breach.
- SB225: Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence for employment in U.S.
- SB226: Polling hours; provides for a court-ordered extension thereof in emergency situations.
- SB227: Irrigation systems; installation of an outdoor automatic sprinkler in state-owned buildings.
- SB228: Pedestrians crossing highways; duties of vehicles to stop to allow at marked crosswalks.
- SB229: Safety belts; use required for all occupants of a motor vehicle.
- SB230: Driver's license, provisional; restriction of cell phone use while driving.
- SB360: Involuntary admission; court to enter an order for mandatory outpatient treatment.
- SB361: Religious holidays; student's absence because of observance thereof must be recorded as excused.
- SB362: Constitutional amendment; limit on taxes or revenues and Revenue Stabilization Fund.
- SB364: School Construction Revolving Fund; created, report.
- SB365: HOT lane construction contracts; requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using facility.
- SB547: Constitutional amendment; localities to establish either income or financial worth limitations.
- SB548: Restroom Access Act; created.
- SB549: Geospatial Health Research; Secretaries of Health and Human Resources and Technology to evaluate.
- SB550: State and local transportation planning; provides for coordination with DRPT.
- SB551: Rezoning actions, local; provides for more limited review by VDOT.
- SB552: HOV lanes; extends date for use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates.
- SB553: Increase transit use strategies; Secretary of Transportation to report annually to General Assembly.
- SB682: Public schools; school board to report to Superintendent of Public Instruction recycling policies.
- SB683: Absentee voting procedures; deletes certain requirements.
- SB735: National Guard; provides in-state tuition for person who met requirements prior to active duty, etc.
- SJ52: Continuing care retirement community; SCC to study management and need for resident representation.
- SJ80: Nursing homes; DHP to study advisability of permitting use of medication aides.
- SJ81: Constitutional amendment; limit on taxes or revenues and Revenue Stabilization Fund.
- SJ97: Constitutional amendment; localities to establish either income or financial worth limitations.
- SJ98: Regional rapid transit network; continues mandate of study.
- SJ187: Commending Sharon Dravvorn.
- SJ188: Commending Ann Lam Wong.
- SJ189: Celebrating the life of General John Reiley Guthrie, USA Ret.
- SJ229: Celebrating the life of JoAnne M. Jorgenson.
- SJ263: Commending Sally Davis.
- SB723: Driver's license, provisional; primary offense.
- SB737: School Construction Revolving Fund; created, report.
- SB796: Polling places; provides for extension of polling hours in emergency situations.
- SB1226: School Construction Revolving Fund; created.
- SB1227: Driver's license, provisional; makes cell phone use while driving a primary offense.
- SB1228: Community services board; removes provision allowing employment if convicted of assault of family.
- SB1229: Medical information; protection by adding definition of personal information.
- SB1230: Elections; extension of polling hours in emergency declared by Governor.
- SB1231: Income tax, state; energy-efficient equipment tax credit.
- SB1232: HOT lane construction contracts; requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using.
- SB1233: Common Interest Community Board; increases filing fee for persons to register written complaints.
- SB1234: Retirement System; retirees hired as school board security personnel, no interruption of benefits.
- SB1235: Disabled prisoners; those terminally ill, etc. may petition Parole Board for conditional release.
- SB1236: Health, Board of; adds two members.
- SB1237: Child support; amends guidelines related to provision of health insurance or health care costs.
- SB1238: Rail and Public Transportation, Department of; Director may procure architectural, etc. services.
- SB1239: Pedestrians and drivers; responsibilities thereof at marked and unmarked crosswalks.
- SB1366: Property Owners' Association Act; control of association by declarant.
- SB1367: Food allergies; school board develop, etc. policy for management of students with life-threatening.
- SB1368: Highway systems; allocation of maintenance funds.
- SB1369: Graffiti abatement; permits localities to charge property owner for cost thereof.
- SB1497: Virginia Network for Geospatial Health Research Authority; created, report.
- SB1498: Motor fuels tax; converts rates to percentage that shall be calculated by DMV Commissioner.
- SB1499: E-Verify program; state agencies, etc. to verify social security number of newly hired employees.
- SB1500: Overload and overweight permits; to establish a new schedule of fees.
- SB1501: Mental Retardation Medicaid Waiver, etc.; elimination of waiting lists.
- SB1502: Safety belt use; extends requirement for all occupants of a motor vehicle.
- SB1551: Conflict of Interests Act, State and Local Gov.; disclosure by certain nonsalaried citizen members.
- SJ338: Public schools; state assistance for construction and renovation, report.
- SJ339: Individuals with life-threatening conditions; Joint Commission on Health Care to study.
- SJ357: Rapid transit service network; continues mandate of study.
- SJ387: HOT lanes; expressing sense of General Assembly concerning contracts entered into by VDOT.
- SJ421: Celebrating the life of Lance Corporal Daniel Ryan Bennett.
- SR33: Commending the West Springfield High School debate team.
- SB289: Real estate tax, local; deferral programs.
- SB290: Advance Health Care Directive Registry; created.
- SB424: Real property tax; relief for certain new or rehabilitated, renovated, or replacement real property.
- SB425: Real property tax; exemptions and deferrals for persons having legal right to be present in U.S.
- SB426: Public Procurement Act; verification of legal presence of contractors for employment.
- SB427: Zoning ordinance violation; action on which lis pendens is based.
- SB428: Zoning ordinance; provisions for issuance of inspection warrants by magistrate.
- SB536: Elections; additional testing of voting equipment in certification process.
- SB537: School boards, local; required to develop policies for changing students grades.
- SB720: HOT lanes; additional lanes on I-95 or I-395 in or between Arlington County & Spotsylvania County.
- SB721: Foods in public schools; Board & Department of Health update regulations for nutrition.
- SB723: Driver's license, provisional; primary offense.
- SB737: School Construction Revolving Fund; created, report.
- SB796: Polling places; provides for extension of polling hours in emergency situations.
- SJ62: Local government; joint subcommittee to study method to alleviate circumstance that prevent meeting.
- SJ68: School facilities; joint subcommittee to study state assistance to localities for financing, etc.
- SJ83: Mass transit; Department of Rail & Public Transportation to study for Northern Virginia.
- SJ119: Stop and yield sign posts; DOT to study costs and befefits of applying retroreflective material.
- SJ127: Commending Jennifer Mitchell.
- SJ251: Commending John Horejsi.
- SJ252: Commending Elaine McConnell.
- SJ253: Commending Dana Kauffman.
- SJ254: Commending Catherine A. Belter.
- SJ255: Commending Gregory C. Evans.
- SJ6028: Commending Thomas L. Gribble.
- SJ6029: Commending Cheryl L. Stevens.