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The development, which drew criticism from Democrats who control the General Assembly, did not come as a surprise. While Youngkin had not explicitly threatened to veto either set of bills, he told ...
Besides the marijuana and wage bills, he vetoed three others. One would have removed an exemption for farmworkers from the state's minimum wage law. Another would have required that approximately 315 individuals incarcerated or on community supervision with a felony marijuana conviction receive a sentencing review, according to Youngkin's office.
In all, Youngkin signed 100 bills and vetoed seven on Thursday. He is on track to have vetoed the highest number of bills of any governor in Virginia's history.
Family medical leave bill vetoed SB373 , if signed, would have required the Virginia Employment Commission to establish a 12-week paid family and medical leave benefits program, to begin in ...
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin vetoed bills that would have increased the minimum wage in Virginia to $15 per hour by 2026. What's next for wages? After a veto by Youngkin, minimum wage will ...
This was the first veto of Youngkin's governorship. [128] Later in 2022, Youngkin signed a bill downscaling the Marcus alert system, which had been established by Northam about two years earlier in response to both the George Floyd protests of 2020 and the 2018 killing in Richmond of Marcus-David Peters.
Franklin D. Roosevelt vetoed more bills than any other president in history. This is partly because of the many new ideas for solutions to the problems caused by the Great Depression and World War II, and partly because he served three full terms (Roosevelt died roughly three months into his fourth term). Grover Cleveland vetoed more bills per ...
When Youngkin vetoed both, the Senate bill was included among a minority of vetoes Democrats tried to override – most likely simply to show their loyalty to the policy since they didn’t have ...