The House and Senate passed their respective budget proposals late last week. Each budget proposal will now be reviewed by the other chamber in advance of the two proposals being placed into a committee of
The House and Senate passed their respective budget proposals late last week. Each budget proposal will now be reviewed by the other chamber in advance of the two proposals being placed into a committee of
In addition to the requests made by VACo, VML, and partner organizations that were discussed in the January 21 edition of County Connections, a number
On January 26, the House Education Committee’s Early Childhood/Innovation Subcommittee met and unanimously recommended to report by a vote of 8-0 HB 879 (Rasoul). This
SB 417 (Stanley) directs the Virginia Code Commission to convene a work group to review requirements throughout the Code of Virginia for localities to provide
VACo opposed HB 599 (Roem), which changes FOIA policy in three major ways. First, it mandates that each person in the Commonwealth including every member of
Limitations on meals and transient occupancy taxes HB 75 (Ware) would place restrictions on the additional taxing authority that was granted to counties in 2020.
Five bills have been introduced to eliminate the sales and use tax on groceries and essential personal hygiene products. Currently, food purchased for human consumption
SB 361 (Stuart), as reported by the Senate Education and Health Committee, would provide local flexibility for smaller jurisdictions with respect to participation in the
HB 531 (Hudson) and HB 1099 (LaRock) would permit any county or city to impose an additional local sales and use tax of up to
On January 24, by a vote of 28-12, the Senate of Virginia voted to report SB 472 (McClellan). VACo strongly supports the measure, which would
SB 435 (Barker), as introduced, would have required that the parent representatives who must be members of the community policy and management teams and family
SB 282 (Ebbin) and HB 862 (Lopez) mandate local governments to supplement public defenders’ salaries if they supplement the salaries of Commonwealth’s Attorneys’ offices. Similar
On January 24, HB 249 (Davis) was heard in the House Communications, Technology, and Innovation Committee. As previously reported, this bill expands the eligibility criteria
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