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Executive Schedule
8:00 AM - WORKING BREAKFAST WITH LT. GOVERNOR WINSOME SEARS AND ATTORNEY GENERAL JASON MIYARES
1:30 PM - WORKING OUT OF VIRGINIA CAPITOL GOVENOR’S OFFICE
6:15 PM - VIRGINIA SHERIFFS’ ASSOCIATION LEGISLATIVE RECEPTION
General Assembly Schedule
7:00 a.m.Speaker's Bible Study; 6th Floor Speaker's Conference Room, Pocahontas Building
7:30 a.m.Senate Finance and Appropriations - Public Safety Subcommittee; Leadership Conference Room, 6th Floor, Pocahontas Building (subcommittee info)
8:00 a.m.Military and Veterans Caucus; Senate Subcommittee Room 2, 5th Floor, Pocahontas Building
8:00 a.m.House Education; House Committee Room, Pocahontas Building (Provide Comment) (committee info)
Adj EDHouse Education - Early Childhood/Innovation Subcommittee; House Committee Room, Pocahontas Building - Immediately upon adjournment of full committee (Provide Comment) (sub-committee info)
8:30 a.m.House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources; House Room 3, The Capitol (Provide Comment) (committee info)
8:30 a.m.Women's Roundtable/League of Women Voters; Suntrust Bldg - 4th Floor, Tidewater Room
8:30 a.m.Real Life Program; 3000-A Subcommittee Room, Pocahontas Building
9:00 a.m.Senate Finance and Appropriations; Shared Committee Room B, Pocahontas Building (committee info)
9:00 a.m.Virginia Refugee Advocacy Day Press Conference; House Briefing Room, Pocahontas Building
11:00 a.m.House Democratic Caucus; House Room 2, The Capitol
11:00 a.m.Senate Democratic Caucus; Senate Room 1, The Capitol
11:15 a.m.House Republican Caucus; House Room 1, The Capitol
11:30 a.m.Senate Republican Caucus; Senate Room 2, The Capitol
12:00 p.m.House Convenes; House Chamber, The Capitol
12:00 p.m.Senate Convenes; Senate Chamber, The Capitol
1/2 hr aftHouse Appropriations; Shared Committee Room, Pocahontas Building - 1/2 hour after adjournment of House (committee info) (Provide Comment)
Adj APPHouse Appropriations - Commerce, Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee; Shared Committee Room, Pocahontas Building - Upon adjournment of full committee (Provide Comment) (sub-committee info)
1/2 hr aftHouse Courts of Justice - Subcommittee #1; House Room 3, The Capitol - 1/2 hour after adjournment of House (Provide Comment) (sub-committee info)
1/2 hr aftHouse Finance; House Committee Room, Pocahontas Building - 1/2 hour after adjournment of House (Provide Comment) (committee info)
1/2 hr aftSenate Judiciary; Senate Room A, Pocahontas Building - 1/2 hour after adjournment (committee info)
1/2 hr aftSenate General Laws and Technology; Senate Room 3, The Capitol - 1/2 hour after adjournment (View and/or Register to Speak Virtually) (committee info)
4:00 p.m.Senate Finance and Appropriations - Transportation Subcommittee; Subcommittee Room #1, 5th Floor, Pocahontas Building (subcommittee info)
4:00 p.m.House Transportation - Subcommittee #3 Highway Safety; 6th Floor Speaker's Conference Room, Pocahontas Building (Provide Comment) (sub-committee info)
The rundown
Governor Youngkin is trying to remove Virginia from RGGI. Take a look at the process of how that might work.
Virginia Democratic Senators lived up to their “Brick Wall” title on the first real day they were put to the test in important legislation. Find out what they killed from Republicans and passed on their own in Committee Tuesday.
Colleges around Virginia rescinded their vaccine requirement
Youngkin lived up to his campaign promise in replacing the head of an executive agency
More news from around Virginia politics.
What Youngkin’s executive order means for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative
By Charlotte Rene Woods | @charlottewords
Legal experts argue that Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order alone cannot pull Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), but here’s what the order means and other ways that could happen.
RGGI requires carbon-emitting power plants to purchase allowances for their emissions in quarterly auctions. Since that law took effect, Virginia earned almost $228 million in funding. The money has been used for programs to bolster energy efficiency for low-income families and combat rising sea levels in coastal areas.
The executive order, signed on Jan. 15 after Youngkin’s inauguration, outlines that the state’s Director of Environmental Quality and the Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources provide a report that evaluates costs and benefits of participation in RGGI within 30 days. In the meantime, Youngkin plans to inform RGGI of intent to withdraw from the 11 state carbon market.