The following Va. leg. session speed-read comes by way of
Dentons50 partner Shawn Day of Capital
Results–editor
In his first year as governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia,
Democrat Ralph Northam's 10 vetoes survived the
legislature's reconvened session this week.
Northam had vetoed bills addressing myriad topics, including
immigration enforcement, more regulation of local government
contractors' wages, prohibition of market-based efforts to
promote clean energy and reduce carbon emissions, changing the
frequency of redistricting and imposing new mandates on local
officials to investigate registered voters.
Republicans, who hold a tenuous one-seat majority in the House
and Senate, attempted to override Northam's veto of a bill
banning localities from becoming "sanctuary" cities for
illegal immigrants but failed to come close to the two-thirds of
seats needed in each chamber.
