Virginia House Bill 959 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-12 - Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Virginia Legislative Travel Commission established. Creates the Virginia Legislative Travel Commission, sets its membership and duties, which duties include the review of legislative travel requests over $500 by members of the General Assembly, if such requests are to be reimbursed by the Commonwealth. The Commission shall approve any such travel request where at least 90 percent of the travel is dedicated to the purpose of economic development, diplomacy, trade relations, or education or in furtherance of (i) carrying out duties imposed by statute or (ii) the work of any standing or other committees of the General Assembly or legislative interim study commissions and committees.

Virginia Legislative Travel Commission; created.

Del. Mark Sickles [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-12	House	Left in Courts of Justice
2014-01-27	House	Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2014-01-21	House	Assigned Courts sub: Ethics
2014-01-17	House	Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2014-01-17	House	Referred from Rules by voice vote
2014-01-08	House	Referred to Committee on Rules
2014-01-08	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/08/14 14102871D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+sum+HB959
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?141+ful+HB959+hil