Governor Youngkin vetoed 25 bills and amended more than 100
Chase attacked Ramirez & Sturtevant in a long email.
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Executive Schedule
9:30 AM: GOVERNOR GLENN YOUNGKIN ATTENDS CABINET MEETING
LOCATION: Patrick Henry Building
1:15 PM: GOVERNOR VISITS THE DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE
LOCATION: Department of Juvenile Justice HQ
4:30 PM: GOVERNOR RECEIVES BRIEFING FROM SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH KAY COLES JAMES
LOCATION: Patrick Henry Building
The rundown
Governor Youngkin announced 25 vetoes and more than 100 amendments. Find out which bills he vetoed or changed.
Amanda Chase attacked the ‘political establishment’ in a long email Tuesday. She directly attacked Glen Sturtevant & Tina Ramirez while also throwing a shot at Kirk Cox.
Youngkin vetoed 25 bills
Governor Glenn Youngkin took action on hundreds of bills Monday before the 11:59 pm deadline. In all, the governor signed 700 bills into law, amended over 100, and vetoed 25. The General Assembly will take up the governor’s amendments and vetoes when they reconvene on April 27 for the veto session.
“My goal as Governor is to make Virginia the best place to live, work, and raise a family and the bills I vetoed today reaffirm that commitment,” Youngkin said in a statement about he vetoes. “I look forward to working together with members of the General Assembly in the future to ensure that we’re working for all Virginians. Together we can make the Commonwealth a place where businesses can prosper, students can thrive, and communities are safer.”
Key vetoes:
SB 347 - John Bell (D) - It would have required the State Corporation Commission to establish for Dominion Energy Virginia annual energy efficiency savings targets for customers who are low-income, elderly, disabled, or veterans of military service. The bill provides that health and safety measures and improvements for the purpose of maximizing both energy savings through low-income energy efficiency programs and reducing the relative energy burden of low-income customers are in the public interest.
Youngkin’s office says he vetoed this bill because it “included an arbitrary declaration of energy efficiency as ‘in the public interest.’ The governor noted in his veto statement that ‘[p]ublic interest declarations unnecessarily restrict the constitutional authority of the SCC and should be used rarely, if ever.’”
SB 250 - Scott Surovell (D) - It would have increased the annual fees for nonhazardous solid waste management facilities and indexes the fees annually based on the change in the Consumer Price Index.
The governor’s office says he vetoed the bill because “it raised fees on household waste collection by $23.1 million over the next six years.”
In his veto statement, the governor said the “burden of increased costs this would place on Virginians is too great.”
HB 1298 - Cia Price (D) - It would have prohibited any high school student-athlete who participates in an athletic competition from entering into any contract to receive compensation in relation to such student's athletic participation in exchange for the use of such student's name, image, or likeness.
Youngkin’s office says he vetoed the bill because "it would have made Virginia the second state in the country to prohibit “name, image, likeness” deals for high school students, calling it a “premature prohibition that fails to recognize the rapidly changing online economies our young people are monetizing.”
HB 573 - Nadarius Clark (D) - The bill would have established a statute of limitations for an action on any contract, written or unwritten, for health care services, including actions brought by the Commonwealth, is three years. The bill further provides that the accrual date for actions on such a contract is 30 days after the later of (i) issuance of the initial invoice or the due date stated in such invoice to the patient or person legally responsible for payment or (ii) if the patient voluntarily enters into a payment plan with the provider, 30 days after the default date contained in such payment plan.
Youngkin’s veto explanation is not yet available on LIS.
Here are all of the bills that Youngkin vetoed: