Two bills fall in House as two more await action in Senate. By Ashley Jordan and Stefani Zenteno Rivadineira Capital News Service RICHMOND - A legislative subcommittee has defeated two bills that w...
RICHMOND -- By unanimous votes, a bill to increase regulations and transparency of Virginia colleges' governing boards and a separate measure to add student and faculty representatives to such boards passed a House subcommittee Tuesday.
Transparency Virginia, a nonprofit, nonpartisan legislative watchdog group, released a report last Tuesday highlighting "murky practices" and "disturbing" findings from the 2015 General Assembly session with regard to unrecorded votes and short notices for committee meetings.