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Legislators' voting records |
(Posted 3/4/2010 by Megan Rhyne)
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UPDATE: The bill was effectively defeated in committee this morning. Lawmakers voted to "continue" the bill until 2011. Sens. Houck and Quayle voted against the motion.
HB 778 is up for consideration by the Senate Rules Committee on Friday, March 4, at 9 a.m.
On the General Assembly's Web site, you can currently find out which legislators voted for or against a particular bill. Unfortunately, there's no manageable way to find out how one particular legislator voted on any number of bills.
HB 778 would require that the Web site be tweaked to allow citizens to search the voting of each individual legislator.
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Threat Assessment Team bills -- campus confusion |
(Posted 2/24/2010 by Megan Rhyne)
Following the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, the Virginia General Assembly mandated that public universities set up Threat Assessment Teams (TATs) to identify and evaluate students, staff or faculty who might pose a threat to the campus communities.
The teams are made up of representatives from student affairs, law enforcement, human resources, counseling services, residence life and others as may be needed.
When the teams began meeting, they found that many of the representatives felt hamstrung by various state and federal laws that prohibited them from sharing information -- health records, mental health records, personnel files, criminal histories -- with each other.
To rectify that situation, Sen. John Edwards and Del. Rob Bell introduced identical bills this year spelling out that yes, the parties can share the information.
But SB207 and HB903 go further than that.
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Three cheers for Wise County Clerk of Court |
(Posted 2/23/2010 by Megan Rhyne)
Note: Wise County Clerk of Court, Jack Kennedy, served on the VCOG board of directors for several years.
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 245
Offered February 4, 2010
Commending the Wise County and City of Norton Bar Association and the Clerk of Circuit Court for Wise County and the City of Norton for their leadership and innovation in information technology in judicial administration.
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