Virginia Government

"The website of the Virginia General Assembly, your portal to the Commonwealth's state legislature"

Listing of all the Senators in the Virginia General Assembly.

Listing of all the members of the Virginia House of Delegates.

Search reports to the General Assembly, from 1897 to the present.

Check the status of bills, look at recent legislation, search the Code and legislation, etc. Includes House and Senate documents and reports. 1994 to present. Old site available at http://leg1.state.va.us/.

Overview of resources for doing legislative history work in Virginia.

More information on legislative history in Virginia, including draft legislative files and videotapes for newer laws.

All the laws currently in effect in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Easy to use, non-profit (and non-governmental) website that provides the Code of Virginia. "Virginia Decoded provides the Code of Virginia on one friendly website. Inline definitions, cross-references, bulk downloads, a modern API, and all of the niceties of modern website design."

All the regulations currently in effect. Regulations are essentially rules implemented by agencies to enforce and carry out laws passed by the General Assembly.

A searchable database of all the bills and resolutions of the current session.

House and Senate documents and reports back to 1897. Full-text available from 1987 on. Full-text backfiles are added as time permits.

Virginia laws from 1619 to 1792. Also available under call numbers GA 5/AC 7/yr. in Virginia Documents and in Shannon Reference under K .V471.

All the laws ever passed by the General Assembly of Virginia.

Georgetown's guide to Virginia legal resources. Written from a Law Library's perspective with links to Lexis and Westlaw that are only available to subscribers. (Note: Westlaw is generally only available to law students and individual subscribers.)

From Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School