The Senate bills -- SB617 and SB618 -- introduced by Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton -- passed on party-line votes a week after Democrats took Senate control and reorganized several committees, including Health and Education. The issue has the state legislature split, as both measures attempt to overturn laws that were passed in 2012 and 2013 under a Republican-controlled General Assembly.
The Senate bills -- SB617 and SB618 -- introduced by Sen. Mamie Locke, D-Hampton -- passed on party-line votes a week after Democrats took Senate control and reorganized several committees, including Health and Education. The issue has the state legislature split, as both measures attempt to overturn laws that were passed in 2012 and 2013 under a Republican-controlled General Assembly.
RICHMOND - Every senator has had a voice in a committee this legislative session except one - Sen. Kenny Alexander, D-Norfolk.
Alexander, who succeeded the late Yvonne Miller in representing the 5th Senate District, was not assigned to a committee for the first 13 days of the General Assembly's session. But on Thursday afternoon, the Senate finally appointed Alexander to fill three of Miller's four committee assignments.
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