2010 Legislative Session
The 2010 Regular Session convenes Wednesday, January 13, 2010.
Inauguration is Saturday, January 16, 2010.
Virginia House and Senate are now on Twitter
The Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia now have Twitter accounts, VAHouse and VASenate. The first tweets from the Virginia General Assembly were
during the Special Session on August 19, 2009. Future Virginia General Assembly Twitter accounts will be tagged under #Virginia#Legislature.
New Capitol Virtual Tour Website
The General Assembly has released a state of the art virtual tours website that brings Virginia's State Capitol to the citizens of Virginia. The website provides online tours of both the Capitol Grounds and the Capitol Building. Visitors to this interactive website will have the ability to explore areas on their own or view video presentations.
Please note the virtual tours website requires the Adobe Flash Player. You can download the Flash Player at the Adobe
website at no charge. If you do not have the Flash Player plug-in installed, you will be prompted to install it before any content is shown.
For visitors with special needs: An accessible segment of this website has been
created for those visitors who use technology other than standard web browsers to
view web content.
Contacting Your Legislator
As a citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia, one of your greatest responsibilities is to help elect the legislators
who represent all Virginians. There are a number of online resources available on the Virginia General Assembly website
to assist you in taking an active role in the legislative process:
Know who your legislators are and how to contact
them. If you don't know who represents you, you
can find out by using Who's
My Legislator. In addition, a biographical page on each delegate and senator is available
from the General Assembly's homepage.
Contact your representative about a particular issue before the Legislature takes action on it.
Using the Legislative Information System, you can track
legislation and review committee agendas prior to a meeting.
You can even testify
before committees on issues important to you.
"Beyond Jamestown" exhibit now in Capitol Extension
Virginia Indian longhouse on display in the Capitol extension.
The Beyond Jamestown exhibit, installed in the Capitol's
Extension in January 2009 and on display through 2009, enlightens Capitol visitors on Virginia Indian history.
Visitors of all ages enjoy crawling into a longhouse,
complete with log benches and a "fireplace," to view pre-colonial items: tools, a dugout canoe, a recreated one-room school, and the work of contemporary
Virginia Indian artists and photographs, all of which offer a retrospective history of the Virginia tribes.
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