State Sen. Jennifer McClellan will replace Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin as representative of Virginia’s blue-leaning 4th Congressional District after McEachin died last November.
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Virginia will lose several “titans” as more than a dozen legislators announce their retirements ahead of the 2023 elections. One of them is from Roanoke.
The Republican-controlled Virginia House shot down a bill from the Democrat-controlled Virginia Senate that would allow retail marijuana sales to start next year.
The two chambers will now have to agree on language governing how harshly the state regulates Dominion Energy’s profits and rate-setting.
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had supported multiple bills limiting abortion access, but Democrats blocked them Thursday.
The bill now heads to the desk of Gov. Ralph Northam. His signature would end capital punishment in the state that has carried it out more than any other since colonial days.
The state Department of General Services will remove the statue from Capitol Square and store it until the General Assembly determines what should be done with it.
Advocates of the bills saw this legislative session as the best chance in years to lower rates and order customer refunds. Dominion Energy Virginia has routinely pushed through legislation that minimized the chances that it would have to lower its rates.
Lawmakers are hoping to restore budgets cuts enacted last year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The proposed bill would make Election day a holiday instead of Lee-Jackson day.