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.
Crossover week is in the rearview mirror, and the legislature and governor appear to be on a collision course over education reform. VLCT appreciates that other policy committees are staying the course, so that critical bills related to housing, land...
This part of the legislative session generally feels like Groundhog Day as advocates and agency officials follow House bills through Senate committees and follow Senate bills through House committees, repeating old testimony and rehashing the same...
This was a relatively slow week at the State House as the policy committees received bills recently passed by the other chamber and began charting the path toward recess later this spring. Meanwhile, the money committees have been mired in the...