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Week 7 of the 2022 Session

February 25, 2022 by Creigh Deeds

Throughout the last few months people have been sure to tell me how they thought the so-called surplus Virginia enjoys ought to be spent – more money for education, more money for our beautiful state parks, more money for transportation projects, more money for human services like mental health, more money for healthcare, and the list goes on. I’ve consistently advised people that we will have to find a path forward that resolves the demand of the Governor for tax cuts with the need for funding other priorities. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Virginia General Assembly 2022 Tagged With: conservation and environmental protection, health care costs, Higher Education funding, K-12 funding, mental health policy and funding, Sales taxes, State employee compensation, state parks, Virginia budget

Week 2 of the 2022 Session

January 21, 2022 by Creigh Deeds

The first full week of the 2022 Session of the Virginia General Assembly is now under our belt. We have a little better idea of what we are working with this year. Governor Northam left us with a budget that attempted to address some critical areas of need but also outlined a plan for tax relief. He pre-supposed that the new administration would have success with some of its goals and embedded tax relief in his outgoing budget.

The rubber has now hit the road. Governor Youngkin gave a rousing speech at his inauguration. On a beautiful crisp, sunny day he was inaugurated as the 74th Governor of the Commonwealth Virginia. Every Virginian should feel pride in the peaceful turnover of power that continues to be our tradition. We should all wish for our governor, the governor of all Virginians, to have success. That does not mean we have to agree with every policy he advances. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Virginia General Assembly 2022 Tagged With: conservation and environmental protection, mental health policy and funding, Virginia budget, Virginia gas tax, Voting Rights

2022 Session Convenes

January 14, 2022 by Creigh Deeds

The 2022 Session of the General Assembly convened on January 12th at noon. This is a year of great change as we inaugurate a new governor tomorrow, and there is a new majority in the House of Delegates. After the Democrats held the governor’s office for the past eight years, Republican Glenn Youngkin will succeed Ralph Northam. The Democrats held the majority in the House of Delegates for two years, and now the Republicans hold a slender 52-48 majority. The test of the session will be how well the slender Democratic majority in the Senate gets along with the slender Republican majority in the House, and how a governor, who has no previous experience in state government, folds into that mix. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Virginia General Assembly 2022 Tagged With: conservation and environmental protection, health care costs, K-12 funding, mental health policy and funding, State employee compensation, unemployment assistance, Virginia budget

Budget Update

August 10, 2021 by Creigh Deeds

Special Session 2021

The passage of the federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) this past spring gave us an unprecedented opportunity here in Virginia. The Commonwealth was allotted $4.3 billion to address the lingering health and economic impacts of the pandemic.

The Governor called the General Assembly back to Richmond for a Special Session this past week for two purposes, the first of which was to consider the Governor’s 18-page plan to spend the ARP funding. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Virginia General Assembly 2021 Tagged With: broadband access, COVID-19, judicial appointments, K-12 funding, mental health policy and funding, promoting economic growth, State employee compensation, Virginia budget, Virginia General Assembly Special Sessions

Sine Die

March 5, 2021 by Creigh Deeds

In this most unusual year, the General Assembly adjourned sine die in the most unusual way. We adopted a procedural resolution to extend the 30-day session to the usual 46 days by having a special session the last couple of weeks. We finished our work late on Saturday, February 27, but we did not adjourn sine die until March 1. [Read more…]

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Filed Under: Virginia General Assembly 2021 Tagged With: conservation and environmental protection, COVID-19, criminal justice reform, gun safety, health care costs, marijuana legalization, mental health policy and funding, promoting economic growth, Senate procedures, Virginia budget, Virginia General Assembly Special Sessions

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