2010 Legislative Session
The 2010 Regular Session convened Wednesday, January 13, 2010 and is scheduled to adjourn sine die on Saturday, March 13, 2010.
House and Senate offer live video of 2010 Session.
The House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia will offer live streaming video of the 2010 Legislative Session, broadcasting from each chamber
every day of the session. The broadcasts will begin when each body convenes for session.
NOTE: an "audio only" stream is being offered for those users with a low speed connection to the
internet.
Links to the session streams with helpful information about the day's session can be found below.
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.
Contacting Your Legislator
As a citizen of the Commonwealth of Virginia, one of your greatest responsibilities is to elect the legislators to represent you in the Virginia General Assembly. 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, find out by using Who's My Legislator. Due to this widely used online service, calling the 800 number for Constituent Viewpoint has been eliminated. Who's My Legislator gives you the ability to email your Delegate, Senator as well as contact information for your representatives in the US House of Representatives and US Senate.
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.
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.
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