VACo has released its 2026 Preliminary Legislative Program, which was drafted through VACo’s steering committee process. The document includes a host of important and timely proposed policy statements including language pertaining to K-12 education funding,
VACo has released its 2026 Preliminary Legislative Program, which was drafted through VACo’s steering committee process. The document includes a host of important and timely proposed policy statements including language pertaining to K-12 education funding,
SB 472 (McClellan) would permit any county or city to impose an additional local sales and use tax of up to 1 percent, if initiated
HB 206 (Webert), if adopted, would require the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to include an analysis of impacts to prime agricultural soils and forestlands
HB 518 (Head) and SB 651 (Vogel) revisit and refine legislation from 2021 that required that taxes due on a sale of transient accommodation be
On February 21, three bills engrossed by the House of Delegates that would impact the ability of local governments to enter in collective bargaining agreements
The House Appropriations and Senate Finance and Appropriations Committees met on Sunday, February 20, and reported their respective amendments to the introduced budget. Preliminary information
Numerous bills have been filed seeking to address the issue of School Construction and Modernization, and on the whole, most have passed the Senate while
Two bills that would have provided additional state support to jails for the care of state-responsible inmates failed to survive hearings in the money committees
SB 400 (Hanger), in its current form, would greatly expand the farm building code exemption to include existing, as well as new buildings, that are
FOIA HB 444 (Bennett-Parker) FOIA; meetings conducted by electronic communication means; situations other than declared states of emergency. Sets out the parameters for public bodies to hold
On Thursday evening, February 10, the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee advanced a new substitute for SB 451 (Boysko)., which passed the Senate today by
SB 507 (Lewis) as originally introduced would have required local governments prospectively electing enhanced retirement benefits to use the 1.85 percent multiplier for determining the
Two companion bills, HB 1191 (Ransone) and SB 361 (Stuart), are moving forward, although the bills are in different postures after action by the House
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