Other Resolutions Passed HJ36 Internet fees, assessments and taxes. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that services which provide access to the international network of computer systems (commonly known as the Internet) and other related electronic communication services, as well as data transmitted via such services, should remain free from fees, assessments, or taxes imposed by the Commonwealth and its political subdivisions. Patron - Plum HJ37 World Congress on Information Technology Week. Designates June 21-27, 1998, as "World Congress on Information Technology Week." Patron - Plum HJ49 Health care. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly regarding the need for Community Health Centers in Virginia to continue to provide access to primary and preventive care for Virginia's medically underserved areas. Patron - Melvin HJ52 Campaign finance disclosure reports; campaign treasurers. Requests the State Board of Elections to provide training sessions for campaign treasurers of General Assembly candidates. The Board is requested to provide one or more training sessions for the treasurers beginning in 1998 so that they will be apprised of the requirements of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act and the procedures for meeting those requirements. Patron - Van Landingham HJ59 Pro bono activities. Requests the State Bar, working in conjunction with other voluntary bar groups, to explore alternatives for increasing lawyers' participation in pro bono services, ensuring their awareness of their ethical obligation to provide pro bono legal services, recommending various programs and methods for fulfilling the obligation. Patron - Almand HJ61 Homeless students in at-risk programs. Requests the Department of Education to include homelessness as a risk factor in its at-risk programs. Patron - Hamilton HJ66 Georgetown Pike. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to continue its efforts to preserve Georgetown Pike. Patron - Callahan HJ86 Transitional Living Center. Memorializes the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to restore requested funding for the Transitional Living Center, operated by Total Action Against Poverty. The center is the only facility in Southwest Virginia providing a complete range of services to homeless families with children, and it is widely recognized as an exemplary model of transitional living programs. Without the requested core funding from HUD, the Transitional Living Center will be forced to close in November 1998. Patron - Woodrum HJ87 Virginians who cannot drive. Requests all state agencies to promote coordination of services to Virginians who cannot drive. Patron - Van Landingham HJ112 Dystonia Awareness Week. Designates the week of October 11-18, 1998, as Dystonia Awareness Week in Virginia, in support of efforts by the Dystonia Medical Research Foundation to create public awareness of the disorder, and urges support for efforts to find a cure. Patron - Plum HJ113 Mental health and managed care technologies. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services continue to evaluate and implement managed care technologies in the provision of mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services. Patron - Thomas HJ118 Citizen water monitoring volunteers. Encourages the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Conservation and Recreation to provide all possible cooperation and assistance to citizen volunteers in their efforts to monitor and ensure safe and clean waters for fishing and swimming. Patron - Plum HJ142 School construction costs. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the Commonwealth support direct funding for school construction and renovation demands, and provide support to localities for debt services. Patron - Phillips HJ143 Vocational education. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly regarding the critical importance of quality vocational education in the Commonwealth's public schools. Patron - Phillips HJ145 Tobacco farming. Requests the Governor, Attorney General and Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs to develop a plan to protect Virginia tobacco growers. The plan is to include recommendations for use of Virginia's share of the tobacco industry's payments under the June 20, 1997, agreement for the protection of tobacco farmers. Patron - Phillips HJ157 Substance abuse services for offenders. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly in support of local efforts to establish drug courts and to make additional resources available for substance abuse services for offenders and their families. Patron - Hall HJ159 Water quality monitoring. Requests the Departments of Environmental Quality, Forestry and Conservation and Recreation to provide leadership and the necessary guidance to citizens groups monitoring the water quality of Virginia's rivers and streams. Patron - Guest HJ163 Consumer credit information. Requests the State Council of Higher Education to encourage institutions of higher education to provide information on consumer credit and the dangers of consumer debt to college students and their families during the admissions process, orientation, and the student's matriculation at the institution. Patron - Darner HJ175 Health care. Requests the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Health to assume a lead role in encouraging, assisting, and supporting local health summits. Patron - Morgan HJ177 Automated external defibrillators; cardiac arrest. Requests the Virginia Department of Health and the Office of Emergency Medical Services to encourage EMS first responder units and ambulances to obtain automated external defibrillators, become trained in the use of this equipment and work with their local Health Association to raise the funds to achieve these goals. Patron - Orrock HJ178 Virginia FFA Day. Proclaims February 26, 1998, as Virginia FFA Day, in honor of the many contributions of the Future Farmers of America to the Commonwealth. Patron - Orrock HJ179 Sense of the General Assembly; hospital conversion foundations. Requesting foundations formed in Virginia as a result of hospitals converting from not-for-profit to for-profit status to annually update the Joint Commission on Health Care on their charitable activities. Patron - Diamonstein HJ189 Naming of buildings, etc. Requests state, regional, and local governmental entities to give consideration to Virginians awarded the Medal of Honor when naming buildings, etc., in honor of distinguished persons. Patron - Cox HJ228 Transportation planning and technology. Requests transportation planning entities and agencies to incorporate transportation technology in the transportation planning process. Patron - McClure HJ233 Regional offices of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership. Requests the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to open regional offices in the Eastern Shore and Southwest Virginia. Patron - Tate HJ234 Survey benchmarks. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to establish survey benchmarks along highway rights-of-way. Patron - Tate HJ237 Parents' involvement with their children. Requests the Virginia Department of Education and Board of Education to issue a written directive to all school systems in the Commonwealth to facilitate and promote the participation of noncustodial parents in the education of their children. Patron - Reid HJ250 Add-on endorsement in gifted education for school personnel. Encourages school personnel (e.g. teachers, principals, supervisors, etc.) assigned to gifted education programs to seek the add-on endorsement in gifted education. The add-on endorsement in gifted education would provide school personnel assigned to gifted education programs the knowledge and skills needed to meet the challenges of teaching and serving gifted students. Patron - Christian HJ253 United States Innovation Partnership. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that His Excellency, the Governor of the Commonwealth, support the work of the United States Innovation Partnership. Patron - Plum HJ254 Substance abuse prevention and treatment. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly on substance abuse treatment and the appropriate strategies for State agencies that have responsibility for persons who have substance abuse problems. Within available resources: (i) offenders in the criminal justice system shall have access to substance abuse treatment; (ii) a continuum of care, consistent with minimum standards, shall be available to persons in the communities; and (iii) the minimal continuum of care shall include prevention and education, comprehensive assessment, case management, outpatient counseling, detoxification, and residential treatment services. This is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Future Delivery of Publicly Funded Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services (HJR 240). Patron - Christian HJ273 Federal funding for indoor plumbing. Requests the Virginia Congressional Delegation to advocate for additional federal funding, particularly grant moneys for USDA Rural Development indoor plumbing and housing rehabilitation programs. Patron - Stump HJ274 Voluntary contributions for indoor plumbing. Requests the Virginia Water Project, Inc., to establish a voluntary contribution program for indoor plumbing assistance in Virginia to assist low-income households. Patron - Stump HJ284 Lady Margaret Thatcher. Acclaims Margaret, The Lady Thatcher, an honorary citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia and directs that a copy of the resolution be forwarded to Lady Thatcher. Patron - Grayson HJ346 Higher education students to study U.S. history. Requests the boards of visitors of the public institutions of higher education to review their curriculum to incorporate American history as a requirement for a bachelor's degree. Patron - Weatherholtz HJ358 SAVE Today for Tomorrow Day. Designates October 14, 1998, and the second Wednesday in October of each succeeding year, as SAVE Today for Tomorrow Day in Virginia and commends the Medical Society of Virginia Alliance for its efforts to increase public awareness of the problem of domestic violence. Patron - Hull HJ369 George Washington. Commemorates the life and legacy of George Washington. Patron - Puller HJ380 Western Week in Virginia. Designates the week of May 25-31, 1998, as Western Week in Virginia, in honor of the Richmond appearance of the Professional Bull Riders Bud Light Cup on May 29th and 30th, 1998. Patron - Diamonstein HJ403 Greek Independence Day. Designates March 25, in 1998 and in each succeeding year, as Greek Independence Day in Virginia in honor of the anniversary of Greece's successful struggle for self-determination. Patron - Joannou SJ3 CFIDS Awareness Day. Designates May 12 as Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) Awareness Day in the Commonwealth. CFIDS is a serious and complex illness, characterized by incapacitating fatigue (experienced as profound exhaustion and extremely poor stamina), that affects over 500,000 people in the United States. Currently, neither a cause nor a cure has been found for this illness. Patron - Benedetti SJ4 Thomas Paine Day. Designates January 29th as Thomas Paine Day in Virginia. Patron - Houck SJ19 Covered bridges. Designates the third weekend in June, in 1998 and in each year thereafter, as Covered Bridge Weekend in Virginia. Patron - Quayle SJ35 Employer support of the National Guard and Reserve. Designates April 20-24, 1998, and the third week of April in each succeeding year, as Virginia Employer Support of the National Guard and Reserve Week to recognize those employers that allow citizens to fulfill their Guard and Reserve duties without harming their civilian careers. Patron - Marye SJ45 Memorializing Congress; electric utility industry restructuring; tax implications for the Commonwealth and localities. Memorializes Congress to carefully consider the effect on tax revenue for the Commonwealth and its localities prior to enacting any federal electric industry restructuring legislation and to provide within any electric utility restructuring legislation provisions clearly granting the authority to state and local governments to continue imposing and collecting taxes from generators of electricity, even if such generators are not physically located within that state. Patron - Watkins SJ58 Memorializing Congress; Kyoto Protocol. Memorializes Congress to prevent the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol (a treaty which would impose on industrialized countries reductions in emissions of the gases thought to cause global warming) until developing countries commit to limiting such emissions as well. Patron - Reasor SJ59 Freedmen's Cemetery. Designates the last week of May as the Week of Remembrance of the Freedmen's Cemetery in Alexandria. Patron - Ticer SJ63 States' ability to amend the United States Constitution. Memorializes Congress to approve House Resolution 84 (105th Congress), which proposes an amendment to the Constitution to allow two-thirds of the states to propose a Constitutional amendment without convening a Constitutional Convention. If the Congress failed to disapprove such an amendment by a two-thirds vote, the amendment would return to the states for ratification. If ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, the amendment would become part of the Constitution. Patron - Martin SJ85 Civil War Battlefields. Memorializes Congress, the Governor of Virginia, and local governing bodies of those jurisdictions where major Civil War battlefields are located to identify, fund, and implement policies and programs that will address transportation needs within the historic battlefields in Virginia. Patron - Houck SJ86 Health care. Expressing the sense of the General Assembly regarding the need for Community Health Centers in Virginia to continue to provide access to primary and preventive care for Virginia's medically underserved areas. Patron - Houck SJ103 ESOPs. Expresses the support of the General Assembly for ESOPs as an effective and viable privatization method to provide state and local government services and functions to the citizens of the Commonwealth. Patron - Stosch SJ116 Community policing programs. Encourages local jurisdictions in the Commonwealth to establish community policing programs. Patron - Edwards SJ140 Anniversary of the death of George Washington. Urges the citizens of the Commonwealth to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of George Washington (December 14, 1999) by rededicating themselves to the principles he represented. Patron - Potts SJ152 Delivery of mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services. Expresses the support of the General Assembly for the continued development of a performance and outcome measurement system (POMS) for the delivery of mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse services and, once revised, for the inclusion of such measures in the community services boards (CSBs) and state facility performance contracts. Patron - Gartlan SJ156 Substance abuse services for offenders. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly in support of local efforts to establish drug courts and to make additional resources available for substance abuse services for offenders and their families. Patron - Martin SJ157 Substance abuse prevention. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly concerning local substance abuse prevention strategies for state agencies that have responsibility for prevention services in each locality in the Commonwealth. Patron - Martin SJ165 Chronic pain. Conveys the Medical Society of Virginia's Guidelines for the Use of Opioids in the Treatment of Chronic, Non-Cancer Pain to the General Assembly and the people and physicians of the Commonwealth. This resolution sets out the full text of the report which was adopted by the MSV's General Assembly, including the guidelines in order to put these guidelines into the public record and to ensure that the government, people, and physicians of Virginia are informed of these ground-breaking treatment guides. Patron - Woods SJ220 Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly in support of retention of the 1,250-mile perimeter rule for operations out of Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Patron - Mims SJ227 George Washington. Commemorating the life and legacy of George Washington. Patron - Gartlan SJ228 Technology Month. Designates June 1998 as Technology Month in Virginia, in honor of the 1998 World Congress on Information Technology, to be hosted by Fairfax County and George Mason University. Patron - Woods SJ234 Confirming Governor's appointments. Confirms appointments made by Governor James S. Gilmore III of certain secretarial and agency personnel and members of the Board of Education. Patron - Miller, K.G. SR1 Senate Rules; membership of the Rules Committee. Amends the Senate Rules to provide that both Co-Chairs of the Senate Committee on Finance are entitled to seats on the Committee on Rules. Also, references to the majority leader and the minority leader have been removed in recognition that party parity exists in the Senate. Patron - Holland SR2 Senate Rules; presentations. Requires members of the Senate to first obtain the approval of the Rules Committee before presenting persons to the Senate. A written request must be submitted 48 hours prior to the time of the presentation. The new rule does not apply to presenting members of the Virginia Congressional Delegation and former members of the Virginia Senate. Patron - Holland Failed HJ259 Memorializing Congress; Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Memorializes the Congress to pass legislation to rename Washington National Airport the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in honor of the former President. Patron - Wilkins SJ47 Memorializing Congress; U.S. troops under U.S. command. Memorializes Congress not to authorize funding for military purposes not authorized by Congress and not exclusively under U.S. command. Specifically, Congress is urged to refuse authorization for any military activity controlled by the United Nations or other such organization, unless there is clear understanding and agreement that U.S. forces will serve only under U.S. command. Patron - Reynolds SJ78 Memorializing Congress; interstate transport of waste. Memorializes Congress to pass legislation providing states and localities with the authority to regulate the importation of out-of-state waste. Patron - Hanger SJ168 Memorializing Congress; ERISA. Advises Congress of the General Assembly's support for pending federal legislation to modify ERISA to avoid preemption of states' jurisdiction of determinations affecting the quality of medical services and the rights of citizens to seek redress against managed care organizations and insurance companies for wrongful denial or delay in providing necessary medical care. Patron - Trumbo SJ175 Television coverage of legislative sessions. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that television coverage of the sessions of the Senate and the House of Delegates should be provided to private broadcasting interests for transmission to the citizens of the Commonwealth. Patron - Forbes SJ188 Media campaign. Requests the Virginia Black Press Association and the Virginia Press Association to prepare and launch a statewide public service announcement campaign addressing identified problems, issues, and concerns of the African-American community. This is a recommendation of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Status and Needs of African-American Males in Virginia. Patron - Maxwell Carried Over HJ58 Tobacco settlement. Memorializing Congress to adopt, as part of the global tobacco settlement, the ten core principles recommended by Virginia's tobacco growers and public health advocates. Patron - Bennett HJ94 Industrial hemp. Memorializes the Secretary of Agriculture, the Director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy to permit the controlled, experimental cultivation of industrial hemp in Virginia. Industrial hemp is seen increasingly as a potentially valuable alternative crop for farmers in Virginia, but current federal regulations make even the experimental cultivation of industrial hemp effectively impossible. Patron - Van Yahres HJ109 Memorializing Congress; interstate transport of waste. Memorializes Congress to pass legislation providing states and localities with the authority to regulate the importation of out-of-state waste. Patron - Morgan HJ220 Biodiversity Treaty. Memorializes the President and the United States Senate to refuse to ratify any United Nations biodiversity treaty that includes any of Virginia's land in a biodiversity program controlled by the United Nations or any other foreign entity, without the express consent of the General Assembly. Patron - Katzen HJ222 Filipino veterans. Memorializes the Congress to approve the Filipino Veterans Equity Bill, which would give Filipino World War II veterans the status and benefits they were promised by Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur. Patron - Wagner HJ223 Memorializing Congress; interstate transport of waste. Memorializes Congress to pass legislation providing states and localities with the authority to regulate the importation of out-of-state waste. Patron - Grayson HJ245 U.S. Constitution on the one-dollar bill. Memorializes Congress to direct that the one-dollar bill be redesigned to permit the inclusion of a condensed version of the U.S. Constitution on the reverse side. Patron - Hargrove HJ258 Memorial resolution; Federal Communications Commission proposed regulations; preemption of local governmental zoning decisions. Memorializes Congress to oppose any proposed Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") regulations that preclude the ability of local governments to regulate the erection of digital television towers, radio towers, and other wireless communication towers. Patron - Wilkins < PREVIOUS | CONTENTS | NEXT >