The legislature convened on April 22 to consider Governor Spanberger’s amendments and vetoes to legislation from the 2026 General Assembly session. The Governor proposed amendments to 176 bills (in addition to four bills already amended
The legislature convened on April 22 to consider Governor Spanberger’s amendments and vetoes to legislation from the 2026 General Assembly session. The Governor proposed amendments to 176 bills (in addition to four bills already amended
Legislation introduced by Delegate Bobby Orrock that seeks to address funding issues for Virginia’s state parks unanimously passed the Senate on February 19. HB 1804
The House Appropriations Committee and the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee met on February 10 and reported their respective amendments to the Governor’s introduced budget.
The park is open daily from 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. The park office is open weekdays from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. The Visitor
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As previously reported, legislation seeking to enact prescriptions from the Virginia Board of Education (VBOE) has been reduced in scope to focus on creating staffing
SB 1380 (Lucas) would authorize Dominion Energy to implement projects to encourage the proliferation of electric school buses and charging infrastructure to reduce the use
Several bills under consideration this session stem from the significant increase in absentee voting in the November 2020 election, which was a result of the
Legislation that proposed robust new community and environmental justice outreach for certain applications for permits from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) failed to
Legislation introduced by Senator Adam Ebbin establishing a new funding mechanism for local governments seeking to embrace flood mitigation and protection projects has finished its
A compromise bill dealing with wetland and stream mitigation bank credits has passed cleared its first hurdle in the Senate, reporting out of the Senate
SB 1210 (Petersen), which directs the Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to convene working groups to study annual fee schedules for nonhazardous
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