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The government of Virginia combines the executive, legislative and judicial branches of authority in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The current governor of Virginia is Glenn Youngkin . The State Capitol building in Richmond was designed by Thomas Jefferson , and the cornerstone was laid by Governor Patrick Henry in 1785 .
The governor is the head of government in Virginia. At the beginning of every regular session, they must report the state of the Commonwealth to the Virginia General Assembly (both the House of Delegates and the Senate). They must convene the legislature when two-thirds of each house calls for a special session.
The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) is a state supervised and locally administered social services system in the Commonwealth of Virginia. [1] The department is headed by a Commissioner who is appointed by the Governor of Virginia . [ 2 ]
Virginia's state government employs over 106,000 public employees, who combined have a median income of $52,401 as of 2018, [253] with the Departments of Transportation and of Education the two largest state departments by expenditure. [254]
The federal government recognized the Restored Government of Virginia, based in Wheeling, as the legitimate government in Virginia on June 25, 1861. It elected its own slate of governors, and after West Virginia was split from Virginia on June 20, 1863, the restored government relocated to Alexandria .
The Virginia Governor's Cabinet is a body of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the Government of Virginia. The Cabinet is responsible for advising the Governor of Virginia .
V. Virginia Board of Health; Virginia Board of Wildlife Resources; Virginia Commission for the Arts; Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government
The Virginia Department of Taxation is the executive branch agency of the state government responsible for taxation in the state of Virginia in the United States. [1 ...