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Richard Bell's Voting Records

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Vote Smart provides easy access to congressional and state voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. Vote Smart uses the following criteria to select key votes:

  1. The vote should be helpful in portraying how a member stands on a particular issue
  2. The vote should be clear for any person to understand
  3. The vote has received media attention
  4. The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
  5. Occasionally, if a specific bill is consistently inquired about on the Voter's Research Hotline, the vote will be added

Vote Smart provides a summary of the version of the bill text associated with each selected key vote. Our summaries are written by Vote Smart's staff and interns, who adhere to our strict policies and procedures in order to guarantee absolute impartiality and accuracy. They do not necessarily reflect the content of the final version of the bill, but rather the version voted on in that stage. While many procedural votes take place before a full chamber vote, our voting stages reflect the final reading of each chamber vote. Each key vote selection is reviewed by the project's community of advisors, who are political scientists and journalists from all fifty states.

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Virginia Key Votes
Bill No. HB 1112
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (62 - 34)
Date 01/27/2012
Bill No. HB 251
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (74 - 21)
Date 01/13/2012
Bill No. HB 14
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/11/2012
Bill No. HB 462
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/11/2012
Bill No. HB 48
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/11/2012
Bill No. HB 576
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/11/2012
Bill No. HB 940
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/11/2012
Bill No. HB 5005
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (63 - 7)
Date 04/28/2011
Bill No. HB 2434
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (59 - 36)
Date 04/06/2011
Bill No. HB 2527
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Failed - House (31 - 68)
Date 02/21/2011
Bill No. SB 1367
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - House (51 - 47)
Date 02/21/2011
Bill No. SB 1062
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - House (71 - 27)
Date 02/17/2011
Bill No. SB 1446
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - House (66 - 32)
Date 02/17/2011
Bill No. HB 1465
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (75 - 24)
Date 02/08/2011
Bill No. HB 2314
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (54 - 45)
Date 02/08/2011
Bill No. HB 2332
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (68 - 31)
Date 02/08/2011
Bill No. HJ 593
Outcome Passage - Amendment Adopted - House (61 - 33)
Date 02/01/2011
Bill No. HB 2527
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/21/2011
Bill No. HB 2314
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/12/2011
Bill No. HJ 593
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/12/2011
Bill No. Amdt 18
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (43 - 52)
Date 04/21/2010
Bill No. Amdt 28
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (25 - 69)
Date 04/21/2010
Bill No. Amdt 91
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (64 - 30)
Date 04/21/2010
Bill No. HB 30
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (73 - 23)
Date 03/14/2010
Bill No. HB 505
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (69 - 27)
Date 03/11/2010
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