A House Labor and Commerce subcommittee recommended continuing until next session a measure to have data centers pay for associated infrastructure and energy costs, instead of...
As Virginia continues down the road of speeding up the transition from gas-powered passenger vehicles to electric ones, new rules proposed by the federal government could...
The General Assembly crossed over to the midpoint of the session recently with almost 600 bills advancing from the House and just over 500 clearing the...
“It is increasingly a recognized treatment for refractory depression and PTSD,” said Del. Dawn Adams, D-Richmond, a nurse practitioner whose legislation would also decriminalize peyote, a...
The Virginia Senate passed an amended version of a bill by Del. Elizabeth Guzmán, D-Woodbridge, mandating paid sick leave. The substitute bill, which now only extends...
A bill in the General Assembly that bans expanded polystyrene containers, also known as plastic foam, at all food vendors by 2025 currently is in limbo...
The state legislature recently passed a bill that will allow transgender individuals to receive a new birth certificate, something advocates said will help transgender people acquire...
As the General Assembly’s 2018 session reaches its midpoint, more than 1,000 bills are still alive, including expanding Medicaid and raising the threshold for felony larceny....
McAuliffe has now vetoed 37 bills from the General Assembly’s 2017 session – and 108 during his four-year term as governor, surpassing any of his predecessors,...
Of the 571 House bills that failed during the session, more than two-thirds were anonymously killed on voice votes in subcommittees that went unrecorded. Proponents of...
