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Constitutional Amendments

P Passed

P HB749
Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); Lottery Proceeds Fund. Provides for a referendum at the November 7, 2000, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth. Proceeds from the Fund will be distributed to counties, cities, and towns to be expended for public education purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate a portion of the lottery revenues for other purposes by a four-fifths vote of the members voting in each house. Any locality accepting a distribution from the Fund must fund its portion of the cost of maintaining standards of quality without the use of Fund distributions. A Code of Virginia provision is added to state that deposits to and appropriations from the Lottery Proceeds Fund will be treated as part of the general fund of the state treasury for purposes of appropriation acts and comptroller's reports.
Patron - Howell

P HB787
Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); right to hunt, fish, and harvest game. Provides for a referendum at the November 7, 2000, election to approve or reject the addition to the Conservation Article of a statement that "the people have a right to hunt, fish, and harvest game, subject to such regulations and restrictions as the General Assembly may prescribe by general law."
Patron - Deeds

P HJ121
Constitutional amendment (second resolution); Lottery Proceeds Fund. Requires the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth. Proceeds from the Fund will be distributed to counties, cities and towns to be expended for public education purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate a portion of the lottery revenues for other purposes by a four-fifths vote of the members voting in each house. Any locality accepting a distribution from the Fund must fund its portion of the cost of maintaining standards of quality without the use of Fund distributions. House Joint Resolution 169 has been incorporated into this resolution.
Patron - Howell

P HJ124
Constitutional amendment (second resolution); right of the people to hunt, fish, and harvest game. Adds a provision to Article XI, Conservation, to state that "the people have a right to hunt, fish, and harvest game, subject to such regulations and restrictions as the General Assembly may prescribe by general law."
Patron - Deeds

P SJ131
Constitutional amendment (second resolution); Lottery Proceeds Fund. Requires the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth. Proceeds from the Fund will be distributed to counties, cities and towns to be expended for public education purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate a portion of the lottery revenues for other purposes by a four-fifths vote of the members voting in each house. Any locality accepting a distribution from the Fund must fund its portion of the cost of maintaining standards of quality without the use of Fund distributions.
Patron - Newman

P SB546
Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); Lottery Proceeds Fund. Provides for a referendum at the November 7, 2000, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth. Proceeds from the Fund will be distributed to counties, cities, and towns to be expended for public education purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate a portion of the lottery revenues for other purposes by a four-fifths vote of the members voting in each house. Any locality accepting a distribution from the Fund must fund its portion of the cost of maintaining standards of quality without the use of Fund distributions. A Code of Virginia provision is added to state that deposits to and appropriations from the Lottery Proceeds Fund will be treated as part of the general fund of the state treasury for purposes of appropriation acts and comptroller's reports. This bill is identical to HB 749.
Patron - Newman

F Failed

F HJ1
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Governor's term of office. Permits the Governor to succeed himself in office. The amendment allows two terms (either in succession or not in succession) but prohibits election to a third term.
Patron - Purkey

F HJ4
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); assessment of real estate at less than fair market value. Authorizes the General Assembly to allow the governing body of any local government to cap the assessed value of real estate owned by a person 65 years of age or older to the assessed value in effect at the time such person turned at least 65 years of age. The General Assembly also may, by general law, directly cap the assessed value of real estate owned by persons 65 years of age or older.
Patron - Moss

F HJ169
Constitutional amendment (second resolution); Lottery Proceeds Fund. Requires the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth. Proceeds from the Fund will be distributed to counties, cities and towns to be expended for public education purposes. The General Assembly may appropriate a portion of the lottery revenues for other purposes by a four-fifths vote of the members voting in each house. Any locality accepting a distribution from the Fund must fund its portion of the cost of maintaining standards of quality without the use of Fund distributions. This resolution has been incorporated into House Joint Resolution 121.
Patron - Pollard

F HJ181
United States Constitution; Equal Rights Amendment. Ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution that was proposed by Congress in 1972. This joint resolution advocates the position that the 1972 Equal Rights Amendment remains viable and may be ratified notwithstanding the expiration of the 10-year ratification period set out in the resolving clause, as amended, in the proposal adopted by Congress.
Patron - Darner

F SJ52
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of right to vote for felons. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of civil rights for felons who have completed service of sentence, probation and parole and met such other conditions or limitations as may be provided by law.
Patron - Miller, Y.B.

F SJ69
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to three terms (12 years) and members of the House of Delegates to six terms (12 years). The limitations apply to service for both consecutive and nonconsecutive terms. Service for a partial term does not preclude serving an additional 12 years. A person may serve 12 years in each house or a total of 24 years in the General Assembly in a lifetime. The limits apply to terms of service beginning on or after the start of the year 2002 regular session of the General Assembly.
Patron - Potts

F SJ132
Constitutional amendment (voter referendum); Lottery Proceeds Fund. Provides for a referendum at the November 7, 2000, election to approve or reject an amendment requiring the General Assembly to establish a Lottery Proceeds Fund which will consist of the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth. See Senate Bill 546.
Patron - Newman

C Carried Over

C HJ30
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); local sources of revenues. Requires the General Assembly to maintain local sources of revenue and to appropriate general funds to localities to offset any loss of revenues occasioned by the passage of a law diminishing a local source of revenue. The General Assembly may override the maintenance requirement by a four-fifths majority vote of the members voting on the measure.
Patron - Darner

C HJ95
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); General Assembly; term limits. Limits members of the Senate to two full terms (eight years) and members of the House of Delegates to four full terms (eight years). The limitations apply to service for both consecutive and nonconsecutive terms. Service for a partial term does not preclude serving the allowed number of full terms. In addition to any partial term, a person may serve eight years in each house or a total of 16 years in the General Assembly in a lifetime. The limits apply to terms of service beginning on or after the start of the 2002 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Patron - Moss

C HJ170
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); rainy day fund. Requires that interest on the Revenue Stabilization Fund, or "rainy day fund," be deposited into the Virginia Housing Partnership Revolving Fund or its successor. Currently, the interest is kept in the "rainy day fund."
Patron - Van Yahres

C HJ190
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Trust Fund. Prohibits "raiding" of the Transportation Trust Fund by the General Assembly for nontransportation purposes.
Patron - Marshall

C HJ216
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Govenor's time to act on bills. Moves the reconvened session to the eighth Wednesday following sine die of a regular session to give the Governor an additional 15 days to act on legislation presented to him when there are fewer than seven days left in the session. The Governor's time to consider bills returned to him from a reconvened session of a regular or special session is reduced from 30 days to 15 days.
Patron - McDonnell

C SJ212
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); retirement of debt. Requires that 10 percent of surplus revenues remaining after (i) all appropriations for a fiscal year and (ii) the making of required deposits to the Revenue Stabilization Fund, shall be used to retire state debt.
Patron - Hawkins

C SJ252
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of right to vote for felons. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law, or establish a process by law, for the restoration of civil rights for felons who have completed service of sentence, probation, and parole and met such other conditions or limitations as may be prescribed by law.
Patron - Hanger


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