Each Monday during the legislative session, VLCT Advocacy publishes a Weekly Legislative Report and archives it here for the duration of the biennium. You may now also follow key issues throughout the session via the topical Advocacy Updates pages below.
While the major debates of the 2026 session have already been well defined, this week we heard the fine print as Governor Scott delivered his annual budget address and agency officials released a slate of new policy proposals related to housing...
The 2026 session is off to the races, and the VLCT advocacy team ran around the State House to deliver another four testimonies, primarily focused on the authorities, statutory processes, and limitations of local government for land use regulation...
The 2026 Legislative Session officially opened at 10 AM on January 6. A year ago, the usual State House crowd was lamenting that "week 1” was more like “month 1” as a large class of freshman legislators took their oaths and new committee chairs took...