Constitutional Amendment Resolutions
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Passed
- P HJ523
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); rights of the people to hunt, fish, and harvest game. Adds a provision to Article XI, Conservation, to state that the people have the right to hunt, fish, and harvest game subject to regulations and restrictions that the General Assembly may prescribe by general law.
- Patron - Deeds
- P HJ607
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Constitutional amendment (first 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 - Howell
- P SJ460
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Constitutional amendment (first 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
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Failed
- F HJ84
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Literary Fund. Revises the name of the Literary Fund consistent with its purposes, i.e., the Virginia Public School Construction and Capital Projects Fund, and requires an affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members of each house of the General Assembly to set aside any moneys for any public school purpose other than public school construction or public school capital projects.
- Patron - Councill
- F HJ478
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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 HJ479
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Secretary of the Commonwealth; election and duties. Provides for the election of a Secretary of the Commonwealth for a four-year term at the same time as the election of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney General. The Secretary will have the duties defined by law including, but not limited to, responsibilities for the administration of laws relating to elections and campaign finance, lobbying, conflict of interests, freedom of information, and the records of the Commonwealth. The Secretary may be elected for successive terms.
- Patron - Cranwell
- F HJ480
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); House of Delegates; terms. Increases the term of office from two to four years. The amendment does not specify the effective date of the change. If the proposed amendment is approved by this General Assembly, the effective date of the amendment will be set by the 2000 Session of the General Assembly, after the 1999 elections.
- Patron - Shuler
- F HJ528
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); proportional representation on legislative committees. Entitles minority parties in each house to proportional representation on standing and other legislative committees. Any fractional representation created by the application of this rule shall be addressed by the General Assembly by law or by each house by rule.
- Patron - Griffith
- F HJ529
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); duties of the minority leader. Formally recognizes the position of minority leader in each house and provides that members of the non-majority caucus who are entitled to serve on legislative committees will be selected by the minority leader.
- Patron - Griffith
- F HJ541
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); power of the voters to recall elective officers. Provides a means for the voters to recall the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or any member of the General Assembly. The grounds for initiating a recall election must be stated in a voter petition and are neglect of duty, misuse of office, and conviction for an election or conflict of interest law violation or for a felony. The General Assembly is directed to enact recall procedures for local officers.
- Patron - Hargrove
- F HJ550
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Limits on taxes and revenues; Revenue Stabilization Fund; taxpayer refunds. Provides for the refund of surplus revenues, above the amount required to be deposited to the Revenue Stabilization Fund, to the Commonwealth's income taxpayers, provided such surplus exceeds $50 million.
- Patron - Cantor
- F HJ579
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights for certain felons. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of voting rights for felons convicted of nonviolent felonies.
- Patron - Melvin
- F HJ597
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Limits on taxes and revenues; Revenue Stabilization Fund; taxpayer refunds. Provides for the refund of 50 percent of the surplus revenues, above the amount required to be deposited to the Revenue Stabilization Fund, to the Commonwealth's income taxpayers. The General Assembly shall provide by law for the refunds, excepting any refund for an amount that fails to exceed the administrative cost of providing the refund.
- Patron - Nixon
- F HJ639
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); election of Justices of Supreme Court and judges of the other courts of record. Provides for the popular statewide election of the Justices and for the popular election of judges of other courts of record either statewide or by district as provided by law. Vacancies are to be filled as provided by law. The first election is scheduled for November 2001.
- Patron - Stump
- F HJ666
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Trust Fund. Requires a vote of two-thirds of the members present (including at least a majority of the members elected) in each house to appropriate or use any money from the Transportation Trust Fund for any purpose not related to transportation. The amendment also requires the repayment of any funds appropriated for non-transportation purposes within three years of the withdrawal of the funds.
- Patron - Marshall
- F HJ702
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); distribution of lottery revenues. Requires the General Assembly to appropriate the net revenues from any lottery conducted by the Commonwealth to its counties, cities and towns to be expended for public education purposes. This resolution has been incorporated into HJR 607.
- Patron - Wagner
- F SJ284
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights for felons. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of voting rights for felons. With this authority, the General Assembly would have a range of options and, for example, could provide by law for the automatic restoration of the right to vote after completion of sentence, probation, and parole.
- Patron - Miller, Y.B.
- F SJ316
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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 2000 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
- Patron - Potts
- F SJ318
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); property exempt from taxation. Authorizes the General Assembly to define passenger vehicles, pickup trucks, motorcycles, and recreational vehicles as a separate subject of taxation and to directly exempt or partially exempt such property from taxation.
- Patron - Miller, K.G.
- F SJ510
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); exemption from local real property taxation. Amends the Constitution to provide that the General Assembly may by general law authorize the governing body of any county, city, town, or regional government to provide a partial exemption from local real property taxation for real estate located in designated conservation, redevelopment or rehabilitation districts upon which there has been new construction. Such authority currently exists for real estate whose improvements, by virtue of age and use, have undergone substantial renovation, rehabilitation or replacement.
- Patron - Edwards
- F SJ511
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); restoration of voting rights for certain felons. Authorizes the General Assembly to provide by law for the restoration of voting rights for felons convicted of nonviolent felonies.
- Patron - Marsh
- F SJ512
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Constitutional amendment (first resolution); bill of rights; parental rights. Provides that "[t]he right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right."
- Patron - Martin
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