RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) - The General Assembly is set to return to Richmond on Wednesday. On Wednesday, April 22, lawmakers will consider Governor Abigail Spanberger’s proposed changes on numerous pieces of legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled General Assembly.  “I don’t know if we could say there’s gonna be fireworks, but I do think that we’re gonna hear some, some venting from some legislators,” Randolph-Macon Political Science Professor Rich Meagher told 8News.  Among the controversial proposed changes to bills, Spanberger wants to push back the start date for the sale of recreational marijuana in Virginia. Additionally, she wants to give local governments more time before they have to allow for public-sector collective bargaining.  “We’ve already heard some advanced venting, not just about Governor Spanberger’s vetoes and amendments, but the fact that they have felt to some legislators like they’ve come out of nowhere,” said Meagher.  If lawmakers accept all of Spanberger’s proposed changes to a bill, it will become law as Spanberger intended.  If the General Assembly rejects some or all of Spanberger’s proposed changes, the bill will go back to Spanberger for her consideration.  Meagher says the outcome will depend on whether Spanberger and lawmakers are in the mood to compromise or if the General Assembly wants to put Spanberger on the spot.  “How much of this is, I don’t wanna say posturing, but how much of it is signaling to the public and each other what we care about, but in the meantime we all come together as a family in the end and sort it out,” said Meagher.  “It could be the case that they end up saying like look this is on you, we said what we wanted to do, we’ve worked this out, either get on board Governor Spanberger, or you can veto it and deal with the political fallout,” Meagher added.  Spanberger will have 30 days to consider any legislation that is returned to her desk. ...read more read less