Commending Kenneth Ross Garren and Sheila JohnstonGarren.
Sponsored bills
Sales and use tax exemption for broadband providers. Establishes a sales and use tax exemption for broadband providers that purchase technology for improving existing broadband infrastructure. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
Commending Rita D. Bishop.
Expungement of police and court records; pardons. Allows a person to petition for the expungement of the police and court records relating to such person's conviction for misdemeanors and certain felonies if he has been granted a simple pardon for the crime. The bill also allows a person to petition for an expungement of the police and court records relating to convictions of marijuana possession, underage alcohol or tobacco possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol, and for deferred disposition dismissals for possession of controlled substances or marijuana, underage alcohol or tobacco possession, and using a false ID to obtain alcohol, when all court costs, fines, and restitution have been paid, and five years have elapsed since the date of completion of all terms of sentencing and probation. Under current law, police and court records relating to convictions are only expunged if a person received an absolute pardon for a crime he did not commit. This bill incorporates SB 118 and SB 517.
Commending Pi Sigma Alpha.
Commending the Hampden-Sydney College StudentSenate.
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the ratificationof the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.Commemorates the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the FifteenthAmendment to the Constitution of the United States. This resolutionis a recommendation of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission.
Celebrating the life of Corporal Ryan C. McGhee,USA.
Celebrating the life of Bittle Wilson PorterfieldIII.
Commending the Appalachian Society of AmericanForesters.