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Dec 13, 2024
Seize the Opportunity: 2025 General Assembly Session
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2025 General Assembly Session

As our civil rights and civil liberties face threats at the federal level, it’s even more important that we safeguard them here at home. That's what we seek to do at the 2025 General Assembly session.
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Dec 21, 2023
Seize the Opportunity: 2024 General Assembly Session
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2024 General Assembly Session

In 2023, Virginia voters seized the opportunity to vote their values. Now that the 2024 General Assembly session is underway, we are eager to work with a new legislature to ensure our laws and policies reflect those values.
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Nov 22, 2022
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2023 General Assembly Session

The 2023 legislative session is going to be just as challenging. We will do whatever it takes to block the bills that seek to roll back the progress we have made. At the same time, we will be proactively pushing several bills – some new, and some we and our partners have been working on for years.

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Nov 17, 2021
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2022 General Assembly Session

The 2022 legislative session is officially over and if you'd like to see where things ended up, you can view and interact with our 2022 General Assembly End-of-Session Report.
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Dec 14, 2020
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2021 General Assembly Session

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Jul 21, 2020
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2020 Special Legislative Session

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Mar 16, 2020
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2020 End-of-Session Report

The following report on our priority legislation and bills we supported shows the groundbreaking impact this session will have on Virginia, as well as the work still left to do.
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Feb 12, 2020
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2020 Crossover Report

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Jan 08, 2020
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2020 General Assembly Session

The 2020 General Assembly session convened Wednesday, Jan. 8 , 2020 for a 60-day session.
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May 15, 2019
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Review of 2019 Legislation

The 2019 General Assembly session will convene Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 for a 45-day session.
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Jan 15, 2019
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Pre-trial Justice: Restoring the Presumption of Innocence (2019)

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Jan 04, 2019
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Constitutional Amendment (First Resolution); Qualifications of Voters and the Right to Vote (2019)

The ACLU of Virginia strongly supports amending the state constitution to positively affirm the right to vote for all citizens who are over 18 and meet Virginia residency requirements.
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Nov 17, 2021
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Nov 17, 2021
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2022 General Assembly Session

The 2022 legislative session is officially over and if you'd like to see where things ended up, you can view and interact with our 2022 General Assembly End-of-Session Report.
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Dec 14, 2020
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Dec 14, 2020
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2021 General Assembly Session

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Jul 21, 2020
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Jul 21, 2020
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2020 Special Legislative Session

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Mar 16, 2020
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Mar 16, 2020
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2020 End-of-Session Report

The following report on our priority legislation and bills we supported shows the groundbreaking impact this session will have on Virginia, as well as the work still left to do.
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Feb 12, 2020
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Feb 12, 2020
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Jan 08, 2020
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Jan 08, 2020
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2020 General Assembly Session

The 2020 General Assembly session convened Wednesday, Jan. 8 , 2020 for a 60-day session.
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May 15, 2019
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May 15, 2019

Review of 2019 Legislation

The 2019 General Assembly session will convene Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019 for a 45-day session.
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Jan 15, 2019
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Jan 15, 2019
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Pre-trial Justice: Restoring the Presumption of Innocence (2019)

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Jan 04, 2019
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Jan 04, 2019
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Constitutional Amendment (First Resolution); Qualifications of Voters and the Right to Vote (2019)

The ACLU of Virginia strongly supports amending the state constitution to positively affirm the right to vote for all citizens who are over 18 and meet Virginia residency requirements.
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