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State applications for an Article V convention (and rescissions thereof) State Issue / Topic Date of approval by state's legislature Receipt by Congress Application classification (or year of application's rescission) Virginia Bill of Rights November 14, 1788: AC V.1 258-259 (II) 2004 New York Bill of Rights February 5, 1789: AC V.1 282 Text ...
The campaign for a popularly elected Senate is frequently credited with "prodding" the Senate to join the House of Representatives in proposing what became the Seventeenth Amendment to the states in 1912, while the latter two campaigns came very close to meeting the two-thirds threshold in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively. [6] [13
Virginia in which House Bill No. 437 was introduced ("A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 2 of Title 24.2 an article numbered 4.1, consisting of a section numbered 24.2-216.1, relating to a convention to amend the United States Constitution; selection and participation of Virginia delegates") as well as Senate Bill No. 105 ...
The Senate refused to consider those resolutions. [54] In 1893, Nebraska filed the first Article V application for direct election of senators. By 1911, 29 states had Article V convention applications on file for an amendment providing for direct election of senators, [55] just two short of the 31-state threshold.
On January 26, 2009, the bill passed the Democratic-controlled Senate. [7] However, the Republican-controlled House of delegates killed the proposal. Governor Kaine worked with a coalition of civic groups to work to restore the voting rights of felons who were convicted of non-violent crimes in the past. Kaine's staff reviewed each individual ...
The bill was tabled (or voted down) in the subcommittee on January 28, 2019, by a 5–3 vote, with all Republicans voting to table it and all Democrats voting not to table it. [10] [8] The related Senate bill had been considered without extensive questioning and voted down in a Senate committee on an 8–7 party line vote on January 17, 2019 ...
She has previously run for Congress and governor of Virginia and was censured by the Virginia Senate in 2021 for voicing support for Jan. 6 protesters. Many others have also announced they’re ...
On February 17, the bill passed the Senate by 28 votes to 12. It was signed into law by Governor Ralph Northam on March 3. [18] An identical measure (SB 17), [19] introduced by Ebbin, passed the Senate on January 21 in 25–13 vote, [20] and the House on February 19 in a 62–38 vote. It was signed into law by Governor Northam on March 6.