Jan. 11 – News Update from the GA
Jan. 11 – Day 3 of the General Assembly CALL TO ACTION On Monday morning please contact your state senators and ask them to support 2 bills that will be heard in committee, SB...
Jan. 10 – News Update from the GA
Jan. 10 – Day 2 of the General Assembly The VICPP policy team was pounding the pavement at the General Assembly today focused on 2 issues… (L-R: Ben Hoyne, Amanda Silcox, Kim Bobo) 1....
Jan. 9 – News Update from the GA
Jan. 9, 2019 – Day 1 of the General Assembly The team from Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy participated in events across the city – sharing our legislative agenda and joining with our...
Legislative Priorities for the 2019 General Assembly
2019 General Assembly Priorities Welcoming All: The U.S. is not a very welcoming place for immigrants and minority faith traditions right now. VICPP opposes anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric and policies and advocates policies in...
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy’s General Assembly Report 2016
A recap of how our Policy Priorities fared The 2016 General Assembly was a long (60-day) session, that adjourned sine die on March 12. The session was marked by policy differences between Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s...
Update for March 14, 2016
Last week members of the House and Senate conference committee delivered their biennium budget conference report. This budget includes many advances for Virginia, most significantly, additional funding for our public education system, a 2%...
Legislative Update for March 7
This is the final week of the 2016 General Assembly session. Last Tuesday the House and Senate ceremoniously rejected the opposing house’s version of the budget so that the details of the biennium budget...
Legislative Update for Feb. 22
Last Tuesday marked crossover, the halfway point through the 2016 General Assembly session. Bills were reported out of the house of origin in order to be considered by the other house. Additionally, the House...
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