The Virginia General Assembly is the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere...
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attorney general of Virginia is an elected constitutional position that holds an executive office in the government of Virginia. Attorneys general are elected...
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-77.43331 The Virginia House of Delegates is one of the two houses of the Virginia General Assembly, the other being the Senate of Virginia. It has 100...
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The 163rd Virginia General Assembly, consisting of members who were elected in both the House and Senate elections in 2023, convened on January 10, 2024...
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433806°W / 37.538972; -77.433806 The Senate of Virginia is the upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. The Senate is composed of 40 senators representing...
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competitive in Virginia since the repeal of Jim Crow laws in the 1970s. Virginia's state legislature is the Virginia General Assembly, which was established...
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lower house of the Virginia General Assembly from 1619 to 1776. It existed during the colonial history of the United States when Virginia was a British colony...
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The Second Virginia General Assembly convened from May 5, 1777, to January 24, 1778, in two regular sessions. 1st Regular session: May 5, 1777 – June...
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transaction. Virginia is the first state in the southern United States to legalize cannabis. In the 1990s, the Virginia General Assembly tightened the...
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Chatham, Virginia. Retrieved June 12, 2016. In 1806, the controversy over where to build a new courthouse resulted in the General Assembly confirming...
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houses the oldest elected legislative body in North America, the Virginia General Assembly, first established as the House of Burgesses in 1619. The Capitol...
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to have been their author. James Madison wrote the Virginia Resolution. The Virginia General Assembly passed it on December 24, 1798. The Kentucky Resolutions...
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County, Virginia. The town was established by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1796 and as the county seat of Rappahannock County, Virginia, in...
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collectively as the District of Kentucky by the Virginia House of Delegates. On March 7, 1789, the Virginia General Assembly officially changed the spelling of Kentucke...
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Great Britain, the Virginia General Assembly split Gloucester county and created Mathews County. The county was named for Brigadier General Thomas Mathews...
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state legislature is the General Assembly. The General Assembly is a bicameral body consisting of a lower house, the Virginia House of Delegates, with...
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to Covington. Chartered in 1836 as the Louisa Railroad by the Virginia General Assembly, the railroad began near the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac...
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Southwest Virginia—saw its economy and tax base collapse. Over the following decades, fiscal and political difficulties led the Virginia General Assembly to...
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the creation of the bicameral Virginia General Assembly as the legislative body of the state and the Governor of Virginia as the "chief magistrate" or...
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The 110th Virginia General Assembly was the meeting of the legislative branch of the Virginia state government from 1918 to 1920, after the 1917 state...
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government in Virginia. At the beginning of every regular session, they must report the state of the Commonwealth to the Virginia General Assembly (both the...
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Poet Laureate of Virginia was established December 18, 1936 by the Virginia General Assembly. Originally, the Poet Laureate of Virginia was appointed without...
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famous for the curing and production of the Smithfield ham. The Virginia General Assembly passed a statute defining "Smithfield ham" by law in 1926, with...
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2019. Retrieved January 16, 2020. "Virginia General Assembly Votes To Ratify Equal Rights Amendment". Virginia Public Media. January 15, 2020. "Candidates...
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statute] as an alternative to Henry's general assessment bill and guided it to passage in the Virginia Assembly in January 1786." An act for establishing...
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congressional delegation, and the minimum majority in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. However, Republicans flipped all three statewide constitutional...
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The 109th Virginia General Assembly was the meeting of the legislative branch of the Virginia state government from 1916 to 1918, after the 1915 state...
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were classified by the Virginia General Assembly in 1871 as cities of the first class and cities of the second class. The Virginia Constitution of 1902...
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The First Virginia General Assembly convened from October 7, 1776, to December 21, 1776, in regular session. This session took place while the Second...
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