Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates forced their Republican colleagues to take an up-or-down vote Monday on a sweeping anti-abortion bill one lawmaker called “a slap in the face” to women who have been raped or suffer life-threatening complications from a pregnancy. In a procedural move designed to put
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Longtime Henrico delegate Jack Reid has died. Reid, born in 1942, was a Republican who represented the 72nd District (which included a portion of Henrico’s West End) from 1990 until 2008. He also had a long career in education, serving as a principal as Robious Middle School in Chesterfield
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A bipartisan bill to mandate an in-person learning option is facing pushback from Republican leadership in the Virginia House. “This is the bill that speaks to opening schools,” said the legislation’s sponsor, Virginia state Senator Siobhan Dunnavant (R-Henrico), when she presented it Monday in the Education Subcommittee for the
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The Virginia House of Delegates passed emergency legislation Tuesday night that would increase the medical staff available to provide COVID-19 vaccinations. The bill also would require data collection and reporting by vaccinators to help track how vaccines are being distributed between communities. HB 2333, sponsored by Delegate Lamont Bagby (D-Henrico)
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The Virginia House of Delegates’s Courts of Justice Committee Tuesday killed two Republican bills that would have made individual parole board votes public record and forced such boards to release monthly reports detailing their actions with incarcerated citizens. The committee referred the latter bill to the crime commission for
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