Hot Topics 2021

The number of bills introduced this year during the pandemic-shortened General Assembly fell by more than half.

Number of bills introduced

The drop off left no easy way to measure which topics are drawing more proposals this year. We identified only four topics that produced more bills than last year and another two that inspired the same amount of legislation.

Topics with the same number of bills introduced as last year -- or more

Source: Virginia Legislative Information System. Excludes commendations. Bill topics assigned by VPAP.