It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing this for SEVEN YEARS already, but it’s true, this is our 7th annual VAPLAN scorecard. Congratulations to freshman Delegate ….
Sine die is Latin for “without day,” and is used in legalese to mean “indefinitely.” There are multiple ways to pronounce this (sin-ay-dee-ay, sigh-knee-die, seen-ay-dee-ay), ….
The final week of (regular) session is ahead. It’s pretty apparent that the budget negotiations will not be completed before they need to adjourn sine ….
Last weekend the House and Senate budget committees presented their amendments to the (Governor’s) introduced budget bills. By the end of this week, the House ….
This was crossover week, when the House had to take any action on House bills, and the Senate had to take any action on Senate ….
This was the last week before crossover. All bills that will make it to the other chamber had to be heard in committee this week. The ….
Things are starting to move along in week four, as bills with fiscal impacts need to be in the money committees by now in order ….
We’re keeping an eye on interesting bills and hot topics; keeping an eye on the freshmen delegates and senators as they pass their first bills; ….
Yesterday Governor Youngkin presented his budget proposal, a map of his priorities and values, his and the VAGOP’s. It creates a $3.5 billion loss of ….
2022 General Assembly Session begins this Wednesday! Virginia Progressive Legislative Alert Newsletter Sunday, January 9, 2022 After two ….
by Chesterfield County Commonwealth’s Attorney, Scott Miles We have a lot of pent-up demand for progressive legislative action from our new majority, including the ERA, ….
Every year VAPLAN’s legislative tracking culminates in a scorecard, ranking legislators from most “progressive” to least, across policy areas. We score votes on dozens of ….
Today was the final day of the 2025 legislative session; but before they adjourned THIS session, the House met as part of the (ongoing) 2024 Special ….
Everyone in the General Assembly is showing signs they’re feeling the stress of the disturbing and destructive events going on across the river in DC. ….
After some very long floor sessions in both the House and the Senate, crossover was reached–for the rest of session, each chamber will only consider ….
The Senate and the House (mostly?) completed committee work on their own chambers’ bills; just floor votes (a LOT) remain before crossover next week. In ….
Senate and House committees and subcommittees reported bills to the floor, many of which will be sure to be vetoed by Gov Youngkin. But importantly, ….
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 ….