The Virginia state Senate completed the first step to send a set of amendments on abortion and marriage before voters in next year’s elections. Lawmakers pushed forward a trio of amendments. The abortion amendment would enshrine a “fundamental right” to abortion,

The Democrat-led Virginia Senate has voted to enshrine the right to an abortion and to vote in the state's constitution.

The votes followed an emotional floor debate on abortion — and an unusual parliamentary tussle over whether the Democratic leader had violated the chamber’s decorum,

A state Senate committee killed a proposal to put Virginia’s ban on compulsory union membership into the constitution. Proponents said rejection of the right-to-work amendment will be an election issue.

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — The Virginia Senate voted Tuesday to advance a trio of constitutional amendments to guarantee Virginians' right to abortion care, automatically restore voting rights to disenfranchised felons and remove an antiquated law banning same-sex marriage .

RICHMOND — When the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday took up a proposed ... drawing a handful of Republican supporters. A Senate committee also advanced that chamber’s version of the ...

The Virginia House of Delegates passed three state constitutional amendments Tuesday that would enshrine in state law reproductive rights, same-sex marriage and automatic restoration of voting

Three amendments are one step closer in a long journey to being enshrined in the Virginia Constitution after passing the Senate on Tuesday. The Senate paved the way to enshrine abortion, marriage equality,

(WSET) — A new bill to allow same-sex marriage to be legal in Virginia passed in the House of Delegates this week ... The bill must also pass in the Senate. If that happens, the General Assembly ...

"Through the Virginia Catholic Conference email advocacy network," Bishop Burbidge and Bishop Knestout said Jan. 21, "thousands of Catholics across Virginia sent messages to their legislators asking them to vote against the abortion expansion and marriage redefinition measures, and in favor of restoring voting rights."

Pharmacy benefits managers act as intermediaries between health plans, drug manufacturers and pharmacies, but their lack of transparency has raised concerns. PBMs retain rebates and discounts from contracts,

West Virginians would no longer be guaranteed the right to public hearings on legislation under new rules proposed by the House of Delegates leader ... director of the West Virginia Economic Justice Project. The West Virginia Senate’s rules have no ...