by Graham Moomaw, Virginia Mercury Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed legislation Thursday that would have established a retail marijuana market in Virginia and raised the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour, torpedoing two top Democratic priorities from the 2024 General Assembly session. The moves came one day after Youngkin’s top priority — the proposal to […]
by Sarah Vogelson, Virginia Mercury Legislation that would end Virginia’s issuance of two license plates that honor Robert E. Lee as “The Virginia Gentleman” and spotlight the Sons of Confederate Veterans is headed to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s desk. The bill is the second attempt by Del. Candi Mundon King, D-Prince William, to get rid of the […]
by Virginia Mercury There’s a new building. A new tunnel. And lots of new politicians. The Virginia General Assembly will convene in Richmond today to begin its 2024 legislative session, a 60-day work period that’s supposed to end with a new, two-year state budget. Breakthroughs on the budget and other big policy items will again […]
by Sarah Vogelsong, Virginia Mercury Virginia’s next General Assembly won’t convene until Jan. 10, but senators and delegates have already begun penning legislation. (And by that, we mean the Virginia Division of Legislative Services is hard at work translating their goals into the high-flown tones of state code.) On Monday, the start of the 2024 […]
by Nathaniel Cline, Virginia Mercury Before the new class of General Assembly members takes office in January, they are facing a push from local government leaders to quickly address Virginia’s historical underfunding of its school divisions. In September, the General Assembly convened a group to examine how the state’s funding formulas could be updated to […]
by Virginia Mercury With drug overdoses now the leading cause of unnatural death in Virginia, Gov. Glenn Youngkin, lawmakers and experts agree solutions are needed to address the devastation caused by fentanyl, the drug involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths. “Fentanyl is killing more Virginians than gun crimes and traffic accidents together,” said […]
RICHMOND – Today, Sen. Jennifer McClellan (D-Richmond) released the following statement on the defeat of three abortion ban bills in the Senate. SB 1385 would have imposed a ban on abortion after 15 weeks, SB 1483 would have banned abortion after 24 weeks, and SB 1284 would have instituted a total abortion ban except in […]
Today, Governor Glenn Youngkin ceremonially signed the Virginia State Budget, which delivers on his promise to provide tax relief for Virginian families, increase funding for law enforcement, and support the development of lab schools, among other key initiatives of his Day One Game Plan. “Every day we have worked hard to build a more prosperous […]
The big buzz at the Virginia Capitol Wednesday wasn’t excitement over the new state budget. It was the construction work on the tunnel being dug beneath the complex, which rattled the historic building throughout the day as lawmakers approved a long-overdue two-year spending plan. Unlike Capitol Square, the budget didn’t have any big holes in it […]
According to a report in the Washington Post, the Virginia General Assembly has delayed voting on legislation designed around convincing the Washington Commanders to move to Prince William County. Despite the support from both parties, the legislators returned to discuss the state budget and the stadium bills would not come to the floor. However, an […]
