Category: 2025 Session

Week One: Kicking off 2025!

By: Cindy Cunningham

After a delay of a few days due to a water crisis in Richmond, the General Assembly 2025 session kicked off on Monday. While committee work ….

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Check out the VAPLAN Week One(-ish) Newsletter! All about the constitutional amendments, plus interesting bills to watch this session. Quote of the week from @delciaprice85.bsky.social. vaplan.us/week-one-kic...

Week One: Kicking off 2025! - VAPLAN

After a delay of a few days due to a water crisis in Richmond, the General Assembly 2025 session kicked off on Monday. While committee work ....

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Del Williams is a no-show in House Counties Cities and Towns committee on his bill to "protect" Civil War monuments. If I had to face Chairwoman @candimundonking.bsky.social with some Confederate-loving BS like that, I'd be MIA too! 🤪 lis.virginia.gov/static/bill-...

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House Public Safety reports out several of the same commonsense gun safety bills it reported out last year (vetoed by Gov), on same party-line vote:
Del Dan Helmer industry liability and ending concealed carry reciprocity
Del Bennet-Parker tracking and verifying legally-required gun transfers
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New @WasonCenter Virginia Poll: @SpanbergerForVA Leads @WinsomeSears by 5 Points (44%-39%); Voters Support Reproductive Freedom Constitutional Amendment by Wide Margin (61%-32%) bluevirginia.us/2025/01/new-...

New Wason Center Virginia Poll: Spanberger Leads Sears by 5 Points (44%-39%); Voters Support Reproductive Freedom Constitutional Amendment by Wide Margin (61%-32%)

A new poll from CNU's Wason Center is out this morning; see below for results and highlights. " In the governor’s race, Congresswoman Spanberger leads Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears by 5-points, 44%...

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Senate Education and Health committee reports with bipartisan support Sen Ghazala Hashmi bill to implement several recommendations of the JLARC study on updating the SOQ school funding formula. This is long-overdue, but also very costly, and it goes now to Finance.