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Va Senate Passes Adoption Discrimination Bill
Last Updated: 1:25 PM 02/21/12 - Legislation allowing private adoption agencies to discriminate against gay prospective parents is on its way to Virginia's governor, who has said he will sign it.
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Va. Drug Testing Bill Remains Alive, Barely
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Last Updated: 10:37 AM 02/21/12 - Legislation to require drug testing of Virginia welfare recipients is still alive, but just barely. (Full Story)
Va. Senate Panel Kills Electronic Tracking Bill
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Last Updated: 3:08 PM 02/20/12 - A Senate committee has rejected legislation that would have made it illegal to secretly use an electronic device to track a person's movements. (Full Story)
Budget Negotiations Begin Ahead of Thursday Vote
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Last Updated: 1:35 PM 02/20/12 - Legislators in Richmond will work this week to hammer out differences between budget proposals in the House of Delegates and State Senate. (Full Story)
Va Retirement System Plans New Investment Options
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Last Updated: 12:20 PM 02/17/12 - State and local employees who use 401(k)-style contribution plans will have a new investment option later this year.
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House Ban on Gay Adoptions Survives Senate Panel
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Last Updated: 11:14 AM 02/17/12 - With little debate, a Senate committee has endorsed a House-passed bill allowing private child placement agencies to deny adoptions for gays or others who offend their religious or moral teaching. (Full Story)
Senate Panel OKs End to State Aid for Abortions
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Last Updated: 12:14 PM 02/16/12 - A Virginia Senate committee's Republican majority has advanced a House bill that would eliminate state funding for abortions for low-income women. (Full Story)
Va House GOP Muscles Through Abortion Curbs
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Last Updated: 2:33 PM 02/14/12 - A House Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years to passage over passionate objections from Democrats. (Full Story)
Va. House Advances 'Personhood' Bill
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Last Updated: 12:13 PM 02/14/12 - The Virginia House of Delegates advanced legislation Monday stating that human life begins at conception and rejected an amendment aimed at clarifying that birth control would remain legal. (Full Story)
Va. Senate Passes Eminent Domain Proposal
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Last Updated: 4:50 PM 02/13/12 - An amendment to Virginia's Constitution that would make it harder for governments to take private land has cleared the Virginia Senate. (Full Story)
Va. House Passes Bill to Restrict GPS Tracking
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Last Updated: 2:37 PM 02/13/12 - Legislation making it illegal to deceptively install an electronic tracking system on a person's vehicle has cleared the House of Delegates and is on its way to the Senate. (Full Story)
Va. House Panel Endorses 'Personhood' Bill
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Last Updated: 6:46 PM 02/10/12 - A Virginia House of Delegates committee has endorsed legislation stating that human life begins at conception. (Full Story)
House Passes Bills Restating Right to Kill Intruders
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Last Updated: 11:27 AM 02/10/12 - Virginia's House of Delegates has written into its law books centuries of common law allowing people to kill those who intrude into their dwellings and menace them. (Full Story)
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