Talk that the General Assembly might use a stalled state budget to enact vetoed ideas — a retail market for cannabis or collective bargaining for government employees — would be an abuse of the Virginia way, Gov. Abigail Spanberger said Tuesday.
With little time left to complete the state’s two-year spending plan — a June 30 deadline could mean state employees wouldn’t be paid and school systems across the state wouldn’t be able to tap critical funds — the idea is lawmakers might force through bills that didn’t make it as the clock ticks toward potential financial meltdown.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
