Members of the House of Delegates agreed by a voice vote Thursday to pass a resolution commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, an English naturalist who is best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection.

A bill from Del. Paul Nichols, D-Dist. 51, requiring landlords facing foreclosures to provide written notification to renters in a timely manner made it out of committee and onto the House floor on Thursday.

Republicans and Democrats couldn’t agree on the seating of the delegate for the 46th District in Alexandria. Or, as Del. Kenneth Plum for District 36 in Fairfax said, the debate waged nearly 45 minutes because “we’re talking about a precedent here.”

The legislature returns Wednesday for a 46-day, election-year session, the overarching theme of which is the deepening recession that has blown another hole — this time, at least $3.2 billion — in the two-year, $77 billion budget.

House Republican leaders will choose Wednesday whether Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's transportation funding bill dies in a showdown floor vote or takes a lethal detour to a committee famously hostile to tax increases.

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told lawmakers Monday that Virginians expect them to act now to approve new funding for transportation.

Unanimously approved plan would finance through the sale of taxpayer-back bonds 75 construction projects over the next six years.

One measure of elected officials’ productivity is the number of bills turned into law. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine signed a number of initiatives from local delegates into law this week.<