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Assembly votes to adopt clean vehicle standards
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The General Assembly also will consider legislation to study Virginiaâs electric charging network and to establish incentives for EVs. In 2020, and now 2021, Virginiaâs General Assembly has taken leaps and bounds forward in tackling the climate crisis, first by working to secure our transition away from fossil fuels to power our daily lives and now by moving to reduce harmful tailpipe pollution by putting cleaner cars on the road. We are not across the finish line yet, but weâre close. Michael Town, Virginia League of Conservation Voters executive director
New guidance from the Virginia Department of Education to help local school districts better protect their transgender and nonbinary students was set to go into effect Thursday, but the department says that likely won’t happen until later this month.
Sen. Jennifer Boysko (far right) at a January 2020 event. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News)
Speaker: Jennifer Boysko
Statement: “The United States is the only industrialized, modernized country that does not already have a paid family medical leave program in place.”
Date: Jan. 18
Setting: Senate committee hearing
Sweeping legislation that would have established a paid family leave program for Virginia employees was recently killed in the state Senate.
The bill, introduced by Sen. Jennifer Boysko (D-Fairfax) would have established a wage tax in 2024 to finance up to 12 weeks of annual paid leave time for workers at 80% of their regular earnings. Eligible were employees: