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VACo is working with legislators in both chambers and both parties on legislation to provide parity between city and county taxing authority, a long-standing priority
Two sets of VACo-supported peer-to-peer vehicle rental bills have been introduced in the General Assembly and will be heard by their respective committees soon. SB
HB 727 (Hope) mandates that all 911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) provide training and equipment to every dispatcher in telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction (TCPR)
Two bills seeking to study and address certain chemical contaminants in Virginia’s drinking water have survived their first subcommittee hearings and will now move forward
VACo supports a bill that reverses some of the restrictions placed on local governments regarding the use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), which are also
HB 585 (Guzman), which requires transit-oriented development (TOD) in comprehensive plans, passed in House Counties, Cities and Towns Committee’s Land Use Subcommittee on a 4
By unanimous votes, Senator Monty Mason’s SB 849 has passed both the Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Finance and Appropriations
On January 20, the Pre-K-12 Subcommittee of the House Education Committee met and considered several pieces of mental health training legislation, which as originally written,
A bill seeking to ban hydraulic fracturing, better known as “fracking,” in certain parts of the Commonwealth has passed the Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Natural
HB 520 (Bulova), which directs the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to convene a stakeholder advisory group for the purpose of studying the planting or
A bill seeking to create new disclosure requirements and a registration system for local government lobbying has failed for the year. SB 383 (McPike) sought
Legislation seeking to authorize local governments to use goat herds for “flash grazing” to control overgrowth along stream banks has been stricken for the year
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