Virginia House Bill 36 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: Passed on April 9 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-04-09 - Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0947)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

Public institutions of higher education; student journalists; freedom of speech and the press. Declares that, except in certain limited circumstances, a student journalist at a public institution of higher education has the right to exercise freedom of speech and the press in institution-sponsored media, including determining the news and opinion content of institution-sponsored media, regardless of whether the media is supported financially by the governing board of the institution, supported through the use of campus facilities, or produced in conjunction with a course in which the student is enrolled. The bill defines "institution-sponsored media" as any material that is prepared, substantially written, published, or broadcast by a student journalist at a public institution of higher education under the direction of a student media adviser and distributed or generally made available to members of the student body.

Student journalists; freedom of speech and the press, definitions.

Del. Chris Hurst [D]

Sen. Danica Roem [D]

Del. Ibraheem Samirah [D]

Del. Mark Keam [D]

2020-03-07 - House - House: VOTE: Adoption (79-Y 16-N) (Y: 79 N: 16 NV: 5 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-07 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (28-Y 11-N) (Y: 28 N: 11 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-07 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N) (Y: 40 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-07 - Senate - Senate: Conference report agreed to by Senate (28-Y 10-N 1-A) (Y: 28 N: 10 NV: 1 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2020-03-05 - Senate - Senate: Senate insisted on amendments (32-Y 4-N) (Y: 32 N: 4 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-04 - House - House: VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 95-N) (Y: 1 N: 95 NV: 4 Abs: 0) [FAIL]
2020-03-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (29-Y 11-N) (Y: 29 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-03 - Senate - Senate: Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N) (Y: 39 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-03-03 - Senate - Senate: Passed Senate with amendments (28-Y 12-N) (Y: 28 N: 12 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-28 - Senate - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 3 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-27 - Senate - Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 5-N) (Y: 9 N: 5 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: VOTE: Passage (86-Y 14-N) (Y: 86 N: 14 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-02-03 - House - House: Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N) (Y: 20 N: 2 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2020-01-29 - House - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N) (Y: 5 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-04-09		Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0947)
2020-04-09		Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 947 (effective 7/1/20)
2020-03-20		Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 11, 2020
2020-03-20	House	Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 20, 2020
2020-03-19	House	Signed by Speaker
2020-03-18	Senate	Signed by President
2020-03-18	House	Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB36ER)
2020-03-18	House	Enrolled
2020-03-07	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (28-Y 11-N)
2020-03-07	Senate	Reconsideration of conference report agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
2020-03-07	Senate	Conference report agreed to by Senate (28-Y 10-N 1-A)
2020-03-07	House	VOTE: Adoption (79-Y 16-N)
2020-03-07	House	Conference report agreed to by House (79-Y 16-N)
2020-03-07	House	Conference substitute printed 20109858D-H2
2020-03-07		Conference: Amended by conference committee
2020-03-05	Senate	Senators: Boysko, Hashmi, Cosgrove
2020-03-05	Senate	Conferees appointed by Senate
2020-03-05	House	Delegates: Hurst, Roem, Rush
2020-03-05	House	Conferees appointed by House
2020-03-05	House	House acceded to request
2020-03-05	Senate	Senate requested conference committee
2020-03-05	Senate	Senate insisted on amendments (32-Y 4-N)
2020-03-04	House	VOTE: REJECTED (1-Y 95-N)
2020-03-04	House	Senate amendments rejected by House (1-Y 95-N)
2020-03-04	House	Placed on Calendar
2020-03-03	Senate	Passed Senate with amendments (29-Y 11-N)
2020-03-03	Senate	Reconsideration of Senate passage agreed to by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
2020-03-03	Senate	Passed Senate with amendments (28-Y 12-N)
2020-03-03	Senate	Engrossed by Senate as amended
2020-03-03	Senate	Amendments by Senator Petersen agreed to
2020-03-03	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2020-03-03	Senate	Committee amendments agreed to
2020-03-03	Senate	Reading of amendments waived
2020-03-03	Senate	Read third time
2020-03-02	Senate	Passed by for the day
2020-03-02	Senate	Read third time
2020-02-28	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N)
2020-02-27	Senate	Reported from Education and Health with amendments (9-Y 5-N)
2020-02-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Education and Health
2020-02-10	Senate	Constitutional reading dispensed
2020-02-07	House	VOTE: Passage (86-Y 14-N)
2020-02-07	House	Read third time and passed House (86-Y 14-N)
2020-02-06	House	Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB36H1
2020-02-06	House	Committee substitute agreed to 20104720D-H1
2020-02-06	House	Read second time
2020-02-05	House	Read first time
2020-02-03	House	Committee substitute printed 20104720D-H1
2020-02-03	House	Reported from Education with substitute (20-Y 2-N)
2020-01-29	House	Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
2020-01-13	House	Assigned Education sub: Post-Secondary and Higher Ed
2019-11-19	House	Referred to Committee on Education
2019-11-19	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/20 20100406D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	1	203.4	(n/a)	See Bill Text
23	1	401.2	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB36
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB36+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB36H1+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB36H2+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+HB36ER+hil
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+ful+CHAP0947+hil
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H0902V0018+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+H09V0106+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV0599+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+S04V0319+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1300HB0036+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1444HB0036+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1446HB0036+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1447HB0036+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV1818+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1535HB0036+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1811HB0036+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1812HB0036+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+SV1813HB0036+HB0036
Roll Call	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+vot+HV2054+HB0036