Less than 48 hours before the start of Virginia’s new fiscal year, the General Assembly will meet in Richmond Monday to consider Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s proposed amendments to the state’s two-year spending plan lawmakers passed one week ago.
The House of Delegates will reconvene at noon to take up the governor’s amendments first, followed later in the day by the Senate. Spanberger must sign the finalized budget before state funding authority expires Tuesday at 11:59 p.m.
Lawmakers approved the roughly $205 billion budget last Monday after reaching a compromise that ended a monthslong standoff over whether Virginia should continue offering major tax incentives to the data center industry…