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Votes at a glance: Senate passes block of House bills including language services, parking enforcement, transparency measures
Summary
During the Feb. 24 session the Senate advanced a block of uncontested House bills and approved several individual measures (House Bill 5 53, House Bill 7 83, House Bill 8 79, House Bill 9 75, House Bill 12 88, House Bill 14 05) with recorded roll-call votes listed below.
The Senate handled a block of uncontested House bills and considered several individually noted measures on Feb. 24. Key outcomes:
- Uncontested block: Multiple House bills on the uncontested calendar were advanced in a block and passed on a roll call (block passage recorded during the morning hour).
- House Bill 5 53 (Department of Corrections language services): Moved by the senator from Western Henrico; the bill codifies translation and language services policies for non-English speakers in custody and passed (Ayes 23, Noes 16).
- House Bill 7 83 (parking enforcement): Moved by the senior senator from Henrico; removes a population requirement for localities to authorize issuance of summonses/parking tickets and passed (Ayes 26, Noes 13).
- House Bill 8 79 (DSS notice when records requests affect 25+ people): Moved by the senator from Western Henrico; requires public notice if requests for personally identifiable information would affect 25 or more people; passed (Ayes 21, Noes 18).
- House Bill 9 75 (MBAR modernization): Moved by the senator from Alexandria; modernizes the mixed beverage annual review food-to-beverage ratio with a tiered structure; passed (Ayes 36, Noes 3).
- House Bill 12 88 (vehicle lien enforcement): Moved by the senior senator from Henrico; raised the threshold for sale at public auction without court order from $12,500 to $17,000; passed (Ayes 36, Noes 3).
- House Bill 14 05 (funeral-expense regulations): Moved by the senator from Western Henrico; allows the State Board of Social Services to promulgate regulations permitting local departments of social services to pay reasonable funeral expenses for certain decedents; passed (Ayes 20, Noes 18, Rule 36:1).
The Senate also agreed to procedural motions including suspending the second reading of titles for a set of House bills and scheduling committee meetings and caucuses. The Senate recessed for 10 minutes and later adjourned until noon the following day.
