26 House districts in the Richmond and Hampton Roads metropolitan areas will be altered as Virginia’s redistricting case is still set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 18.
After three alpacas were attacked and injured last October in James City County, Virginia, lawmakers in Richmond are set to classify the animals as livestock, granting them legal protections they did not have before.
As Governor Northam and his legislative allies consider repealing Virginia’s voter ID requirement, favored by nearly four in five voters, one Democratic lawmaker is proposing tougher identification requirements for pawnbrokers.
Democrats are routing politically problematic corporate coal contributions to candidates through their caucus account, even as members tell their constituents they won’t take that money. This makes coal the caucus’s largest corporate donor of 2018.
Virginia’s extensive efforts when it comes to school safety has been discussed as the House of Delegates’ first Select Committee in 155 years have taken a broad approach to looking at warding off violence in schools.
