Summary
Meets on: The call of the Chair
Members: Mamie Locke (Chair) – George Barker – Creigh Deeds – John Edwards – Barbara Favola – Janet Howell – Lynwood Lewis – Louise Lucas – Dave Marsden – Ryan McDougle – Jeremy McPike – Tommy Norment – Chap Petersen – Dick Saslaw – Jill Vogel
(12 Democrats and 3 Republicans)
Subcommittees: None
OnAir Post: Rules Committee (Senate)
News
Note: Details on bills passed below are in the Heading “Bills passed”
- SB 1126 Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads; change in membership.
- SB 1273 Behavioral Health Commission; created, report.
- SB 1414 Henrietta Lacks Commission; extends sunset provision.
- SB 1473 Health Insurance Reform Commission; mandated health insurance benefit or provider.
- SJ 293 Assisted living and auxiliary grants; Joint Commission on Health Care to study available data.
- SJ 294 JLARC; costs of education, report.
About
From Senate Rules: “A Committee on Rules, which shall be in addition to the foregoing standing Committees, consisting of the standing Committee Chairs; the President pro tempore, if the person is not a Chair; the Majority Leader, if the person is not a Chair; the Minority Leader; and other Senators to comprise not more than 17. The Chair of the Committee on Rules shall not be Chair of any standing Committee.”.
The Committee shall consider all resolutions amending or altering the Rules of the Senate; all joint rules with the House of Delegates; all bills and resolutions creating study committees or commissions; and all other resolutions (except those of a purely procedural nature, those concerning nominations and appointments to any office or position in the Commonwealth including the nominations of Justices and Judges, and those concerning constitutional amendments). The Committee may report such bills or resolutions with the recommendation that they be passed, or that they be rereferred to another Committee. In considering a bill or resolution, the Committee is empowered to sit while the Senate is in session. There shall be a subcommittee of the Committee, consisting of the Chair and members appointed by the Chair to equal the number of House members appointed to the subcommittee, which shall exercise on behalf of the Committee such powers as are delegated to the Committee when acting jointly with the Committee on Rules of the House of Delegates or a subcommittee thereof.
