Committee postpones vote on HR 4312 after receiving opposition letters from key organizations.

Virginia's gender pay gap grew in 2023, with women earning 78.8% of men's median income — one of the widest disparities in the South.

A Go Virginia–funded AI landscape assessment presented to the state board recommends 34 strategic actions, stresses workforce training for roughly 1.55 million workers potentially affected by AI and urges region-specific strategies to help small and midsize firms adopt AI, the authors told the board.

On March 4, 2026, the Virginia House of Delegates passed more than 100 bills on third reading, approving measures to direct offshore wind workforce training, authorize an iGaming framework, and create a regulated adult-use cannabis retail market, among other actions. Several firearms-related bills also advanced after extended floor debate.

Authority members received briefings on bills including HB 67 and HB 1079, discussed workforce-training needs and R&D opportunities tied to offshore wind, and heard staff caution that pending PJM transmission studies and Dominion-related curtailment could reduce near-term generation and tax-credit eligibility.

The Senate General Laws and Technology Committee advanced a substitute for House Bill 218, a workforce measure that shortens the background "look-back" for casino gaming service permits to industry norms and directs the bill to finance after testimony from the bill patron and workforce witnesses.

Department of Human Resource Management officials told the subcommittee the Commonwealth has about 142,000 FTEs and a 12.8% turnover rate, and warned that pharmacy spending (notably GLP‑1 drugs and specialty biologics) has sharply increased and could push the Health Insurance Fund toward unsustainable levels without plan changes.

A substitute to HB 310, sponsored by Delegate Delia Fagan, directs state agencies to report when deployed AI systems materially affect state jobs and to submit workforce transition plans; the subcommittee reported the substitute and referred it to appropriations for fiscal review.

HB 218 would set a 30 business‑day timeline for casino service permit decisions, allow applicants a narrative and character references, and narrow background checks to recent history; the subcommittee reported the bill 9–0 after supporters from workforce and casino employers testified.

Committee discusses NOVA's innovative program aiding displaced federal workers with job skills.

State monitors job losses and economic impacts from federal employment shifts in Virginia.