Incredible Bills in Conference List Remains

The Virginia House and Senate convene at noon today, and today is actually today finally.  The General Assembly recognizes this as March 7, having had a two-day March 5.  March 6 will never exist in the records.  Stopping the clock for an entire 24 hours allowed legislators to continue to put disputed bills into conference, and they did so until right before “Thursday” adjournment at 5:45 p.m. Friday.

Being March 7, the Assembly is scheduled to adjourn.  Some of the more contentious issues remain on this unresolved bill list.  Some do have conference reports voted on by one chamber or the other, or printed ready for action.  Many have no agreement.  Either the session goes into overtime or some of these just fail.  A budget vote sometime next week also seems inevitable, unless they want to vote first and read it later.

The list: