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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elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia. From 1642 to 1776, the House of Burgesses...
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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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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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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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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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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. March 7, 1789, the Virginia General Assembly officially changed the spelling of Kentucke...
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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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education" as the three top issues facing the next general Assembly. McGuire publicly opposed Virginia's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, pointing...
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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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Code of Virginia is the statutory law of the U.S. state of Virginia and consists of the codified legislation of the Virginia General Assembly. The 1950...
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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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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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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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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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and act upon such petition —Virginia General Assembly, March 20, 1924 An act, passed by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1988 and amended in 2013,...
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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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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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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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judges. As part of a comprehensive reform bill passed by the Virginia General Assembly and signed into law in March 2021, the jurisdiction of the Court...
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penalty in the United States. Capital punishment in Virginia was abolished by the Virginia General Assembly in 2021. Between 1982 and 2017, a total of 113...
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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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The 162nd Virginia General Assembly, consisting of members who were elected in both the House election in 2021 and the Senate election in 2019, convened...
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created in 1858 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor James McDowell. It became a part of West Virginia in 1863, when several...
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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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