VA SB56 | 2010 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-02-15 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on January 4 2010 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2010-02-15 - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N)
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]
Summary
Prayer at public events. Provides that whenever an individual is requested to provide prayer, invocation, or benediction at a public event that is sanctioned by a governmental agency, such governmental agency shall have no authority to regulate how that individual refers to God in prayer or to prohibit the religious content of the individual's prayer, invocation, or benediction, provided such prayer, invocation, or benediction is not used to advance a particular religion or to disparage another faith or belief.
Title
Prayer at public events; governmental agency to have no authority to regulate.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2010-02-15 - Senate - Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) (Y: 9 N: 6 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2010-01-20 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2010-01-20 - Senate - Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) (Y: 15 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2010-02-15 | Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Courts of Justice (9-Y 6-N) | |
2010-01-20 | Senate: Rereferred to Courts of Justice | |
2010-01-20 | Senate: Rereferred from General Laws and Technology (15-Y 0-N) | |
2010-01-04 | Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology | |
2010-01-04 | Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10100562D |