The legislature set the budget this evening, wrapping up the General Assembly session just one day after their allotted sixty days. Now all of the bills that passed the legislature will go onto Governor Bob McDonnell, who will sign or veto each bill. (Generally only about a dozen bills are vetoed each year—most are signed into law by the governor.) As those bills are signed, we’ll list them here, along with the 169 bills that he’s signed off on so far.
After that, the General Assembly will get together again in their annual reconvened session on April 21—just five weeks from now—when they’ll have a chance to muster enough votes to override the governor’s veto on any bills. That’s usually very brief—a few hours—and whether it’ll be interest depends on what the governor vetoes.
But Richmond Sunlight doesn’t shut down during the rest of the year. As always, we’ll be adding new features, analyzing what exactly happened this year, and filling you in on all of the stuff that goes on during the other ten months out of the year. After all, prefiling for the 2011 session starts in just four months.
