The 2025 Virginia General Assembly

The 2025 General Assembly session has come to an end. This year’s short session got off to a rocky start with Richmond’s water crisis causing a delayed start. Now that the session has concluded, please see the list of bills for wildlife in Loudoun that have made it to the Governor’s desk. You can also see the full list of all successful and failed bills we tracked that fell under the mission and vision of Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. You can learn about general themes this session by looking at our key policy opportunities, based on Virginia Conservation Network’s (VCN) Our Common Agenda.

Lobby week was the fourth week in January, and Loudoun Wildlife representatives took part in two lobby days this year. Lobby Day with the Data Center Reform Coalition was January 20. Loudoun Wildlife’s Conservation Advocacy Specialist Trinity Mills met with legislators on one of this session’s biggest topics: data center reform. On January 22, Trinity was joined in Richmond by Executive Director Tom Kercheval for VCN’s Conservation Lobby Day, where environmental organizations from across the state advocated for conservation-friendly policies. In our meetings with Senators Perry, Srinivasan and Sturtevant as well as Delegates Reid, Singh and Reasor, we stressed the importance of supporting bills that will bolster wetland protections, implement data center regulations, fund wildlife crossings and more.

Be sure to check out VCN’s bill tracker for all the environmental bills to watch. You can also find information in recordings of the 2025 Our Common Agenda webinar series for overviews of the white papers from the briefing book. See also links to white papers on the issues most relevant to Loudoun County’s wildlife.

Now the bills that passed through the Senate and House of Delegates are before Governor Youngkin to veto or sign into law. We will update our bill list following the Governor’s action deadline of March 24.

Don’t forget to thank your legislator for voting in alignment with the environment. You can find your legislator’s information on the Who’s My Legislator page. To see how your representative voted on a particular bill, click on that bill’s LIS (Legislative Information System) link on our bill tracker, scroll down on the page to the appropriate entry, and click the dropdown arrow next to it. Thank you to everyone that contacted their legislator in support of the bills that we’ve been advocating for this session.