This Week in Statehouse Action: Groundhog Daze edition

Bad news, everyone: I saw my shadow, so there are six more weeks of session.

… okay okay, that’s literally not possible; legislative sessions last for different lengths of time in different states. And some meet year-round. And some don’t even convene every year!

Right now, though, that session map is LIT.

• Literally every state but Alabama (convenes March 7), Florida (also March 7), Nevada (session starts Monday), and Oklahoma (also kicks off Feb. 6) is into its legislative session at this point; most have been going since early January.

And while it wasn’t the first to convene, the dubious honor of First To Adjourn will go to Virginia, which will wrap before February is even over (2/25, technically).

So with just three weeks of lawmaking left, what is going on in the Old Dominion, anyway?

Meet Virginia

Crossover is nigh!

This year’s short session (just 45 days; in even-numbered year…