ICYMI: 2021 General Assembly Mid-Session Update
The General Assembly mid-session update: Hear Lynchburg Senators Steve Newman and Mark Peake and Delegates Wendell Walker and Matt Fariss discuss marijuana legalization, abolishing the death penalty, getting kids back in school, and other decisions that affect all of us.
The bill’s continued advancement this year seems to be a breakthrough on an issue lawmakers have previously been reluctant to tackle. Virginia has one of the least restrictive and policed campaign finance systems in the country, with lawmakers only barred from using campaign funds for personal use once they close out their accounts.
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Virginia might change how absentee votes get counted
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Early voters line up at the Fauquier County registrarâs office to cast their ballots in September. Absentee ballots get processed in one total, separate from the precincts in which voters live. Iâll tell you this, if weâre shooting rockets off into space at Wallops Island, we can figure out what precinct a voter is from. Sen. Mark Peake (R-Lynchburg)
⢠Adjourns: Saturday, Feb. 27
Despite lingering, and unfounded, fraud suspicions on the right, a recently issued state report called the 2020 election the âmost safe, secure, and successfulâ in Virginiaâs history.
Michael Pope reports.
As Senate Majority Leader Dick Saslaw said on the Senate floor, it s high time Virginia does something about marijuana. He made that crack after senators started a debate about the legalization of marijuana at 4:20 in the afternoon.
They approved a bill introduced by Senator Adam Ebbin, a Democrat from Alexandria that creates an independent agency to regulate the new industry. It would also create social equity licenses to make sure that communities harmed by the war on drugs are able to benefit from the coming windfall profits.
Credit U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration It is a forward thinking, deliberative approach to create a regulated adult-use market for cannabis, which will reform our criminal justice system and begin the long process of undoing the harms of prohibition, Ebbin explained.