Commerce; goods manufactured or made in State shall not be authority of U.S. Congress to regulate. (HB18)

Introduced By

Del. Mark Cole (R-Fredericksburg) with support from 8 copatrons, whose average partisan position is:

Those copatrons are Del. Rich Anderson (R-Woodbridge), Del. Clay Athey (R-Front Royal), Del. Dickie Bell (R-Staunton), Del. Todd Gilbert (R-Woodstock), Del. Steve Landes (R-Weyers Cave), Del. Scott Lingamfelter (R-Woodbridge), Del. Jackson Miller (R-Manassas), Del. Albert Pollard (D-Lively)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Commerce; certain made goods and services.  Provides that all goods manufactured or made in Virginia and all services performed in Virginia, when such goods or services are held, maintained, or retained in Virginia, shall not be subject to the authority of the Congress of the United States under its constitutional power to regulate commerce. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
12/11/2009Committee
12/11/2009Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10100917D
12/11/2009Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
01/26/2010Assigned C & L sub: #1
02/02/2010Subcommittee recommends reporting (10-Y 0-N)
02/09/2010Reported from Commerce and Labor (16-Y 5-N) (see vote tally)
02/11/2010Read first time
02/12/2010Read second time
02/12/2010Amendment by Delegate Englin agreed to
02/12/2010Engrossed by House as amended HB18E
02/12/2010Printed as engrossed 10100917D-E
02/15/2010Read third time and passed House (74-Y 23-N)
02/15/2010VOTE: --- PASSAGE (74-Y 23-N) (see vote tally)
02/16/2010Constitutional reading dispensed
02/16/2010Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
02/19/2010Assigned C&L sub: Miscellaneous
03/08/2010Left in Commerce and Labor

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 3 clips in all, totaling 3 minutes.

Comments

Waldo Jaquith writes:

Is that up to the General Assembly? Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce, and my understanding of court rulings over the past century is that basically anybody selling any good is engaged in interstate commerce, and that's a result of federal court rulings. Whether that standard is right or wrong, I don't see how the legislature can just overturn that with a simple amendment to state law.

James writes:

Just so everyone knows that theres a 10th amendment so please look it up then read the rest of the Constitition in order to truely understand what CONGRESS IS ALLOUD to actually do. INTERSTATE commerce is anything that that crosses borders of states either within the country or out of the country. The courts swayed this after the great depression laws went into effect where a case came up (Dont remember the names) where a guy wanted to grow 20 acres of wheat on his farm and was told could only grow 10. He grew 20 acres and used it to feed his own livestock. Tehy ruled that by him grow the wheat that his cattle ate "Could have" inadvertatly affected the interstate commerce.

Also want to point out that everyone really needs to study up a little and understand WHERE your power and rights come from. Its NOT from the governemnt. You get your rights from god or your creator or humanity by simply being alive. The state is the soviergn power that gives the Federal government "Some" powers. The states give it only few and listed in the constitution powers.

10TH amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

James writes:

“If the federal government has the exclusive right to judge the extent of its own powers, warned the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions’ authors (James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, respectively), it will continue to grow – regardless of elections, the separation of powers, and other much-touted limits on government power.”
–Thomas E. Woods

James writes:

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Waldo Jaquith writes:

Oh, I get it—you're a Tenther.

DANNY KINDER writes:

I WOULD HOPE THAT VA UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT WILL TELL THE FEDS TO KEEP THEIR HANDS OFF VIRGINIA. ITS LONG OVER DUE FOR THIS STATE TO RECLAIM ITS RIGHTS. OUR POLITICIANS MIGHT LOOK TO OKLAHOMA FOR SOME HELP IN DEFINING THIS STATE, THERE WAS A TIME WE WERE ONE OF THE STATES THAT OTHERS LOOKED TO FOR GUIDANCE. HOPE WE SOON GET THE GUTS TO DO IT AGAIN.

Jay Speer writes:

There seems to be a revival of the "states rights" movement. In general, you are in favor of state rights if you are not happy with what the federal government is doing and that depends upon who is currently in charge of the federal government. "States rights" has a very checkered past with its history of being used as justification for massive resistance.