The Virginia House Finance Committee reported four bills out of full committee — including a controversial local sales tax measure that passed 15 to 5 and a plastic bag tax revenue-sharing bill that passed 14 to 6 — while also re-referring three bills to Appropriations at the request of the Speaker and navigating a procedural dispute over the proper process for incorporating two bills into a substitute.
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After a vote was taken to incorporate HB 72 and HB 261 into HB 282, an unnamed member argued that the proper motion should have been a substitute motion for HB 282 — not merely an incorporation vote — and stated: 'So we need to move the substitute for second. That's for 282. This one we just need to vote on with a substitute that will incorporate those other bills. That would be the proper motion.' The unnamed member also indicated the roll did not need to be destroyed because 'I do not believe that you actually voted on House Bill 282.' The Chair deferred to the Clerk, and the substitute process was followed with a new voice vote and then a recorded roll call vote on HB 282 as substituted.
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“There is not a full record of the votes that were taken by subcommittee members on these bills. Therefore, as each of the bills are reported, we are going to give an opportunity for the members who voted nay or for. I hope that there is no one who had voted yay. That has been misreported. But for those members who voted nay to indicate publicly that that was their vote. And I'm sure later the correction will be made on LIS so that this is something for the historic record.”
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Sign in to subscribeThe meeting of full finance committee will come to order. Clerk, please open the roll. Members, please cast your presence on the electronic voting board. Clerk, please close the roll. We have a quorum on the agenda before you. And again, for many, this is the first business meeting, if you will, of the committees to which you have been assigned. So whenever you see on the agend administrative items. They are literally administrative items. The member does not have to be here who has patroned it. And we will take no action except for the fact that we have been requested by the speaker to re Refer the following three bills to appropriation. House Bill 585. Ballard is the patron. House Bill 659. Kent is the patron. And House Bill 750, patron by Runyon. I don't believe that I even need a motion. Is that correct? I think out of an abundance of caution, I mean, I hear a motion to re refer those three bills to Appropriations. Second. All those in favor on this one? I don't think we need a recorded vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Thank you. And the only other item…
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