Dear Friends, The General Assembly adjourned on Saturday March 12 and I am happy to be back in Newport News. Despite some challenges, we managed to protect the progress we made on raising minimum wage, expanding voting access and defending the Virginia Clean Economy Act. We also moved ahead on some significant issues, including improving […]
Month: March 2022
As I write, we are in the last days of the legislative session and I am involved with negotiations with the Senate on the final versions of bills on school construction, STEM education and Human Trafficking Prevention, before final passage. This past week we held our final Career and Technical Education Caucus of the 2022 […]
We are now in the final weeks of our General Assembly session in Virginia’s Capitol. We have met with a number of successes, but also a few setbacks, during our legislative journey here in Richmond. I was disappointed that an important Constitutional Amendment, SJ1, which would establish a fundamental right to vote in the Virginia […]
Now that we are past the halfway point of the General Assembly session, the attention of the legislature has turned to budget negotiations between the House and the Senate. I was pleased that the House version of the budget included funding for two of my initiatives. The House versions (HB29 and HB30) included approximately $300,000 […]