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Decision delayed on Hampton Roads casinos bill
RICHMOND A hearing for a bill seeking to replace tolls with casinos as a way to fund transportation projects in Hampton Roads is delayed a week. SB714 by Sen. Louis Lucas, D-Portsmouth, was scheduled for a hearing in the Senate General Laws Committee this afternoon, but Lucas asked the panel to take it up at their meeting next Tuesday instead.
Va. Senate committee passes nondiscrimination bill
RICHMOND A Senate committee this evening passed a bill expanding the state’s nondiscrimination law to include protections for workers who are pregnant, homosexual or have served in the military. SB701 prohibits discrimination against state employees and applicants for state jobs based on sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy or childbirth. It also adds veterans to the list.
N.C. Sen. Hagan says she’s governing as moderate
RALEIGH, N.C. U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan won't let what predecessor Elizabeth Dole failed to overcome get to her. She's getting out of Washington.
Virginia retailers weigh in on plan to raise sales tax
Virginia retailers usually bristle at any suggestion to raise the state’s sales tax. They worry that such a move would temper spending among consumers who are sensitive to price increases. And it would make the competition with out-of-state retailers that don’t charge sales tax – in particular, Internet merchants – that much more difficult, they argue.
Inaction on online taxes hamstrings Va. roads funding
RICHMOND More than one-third of the revenue Gov. Bob McDonnell hopes to raise with his proposed transportation funding package is contingent on federal legislation that Congress hasn’t passed.
House committee rejects sex-selective abortion ban
RICHMOND A Republican-controlled House subcommittee this afternoon unanimously voted against banning sex-selective abortions in Virginia, citing Constitutional concerns and worries about penalizing doctors for their patients’ motives.
Assault on high prison phone rates fails in Va. House
RICHMOND A lawmaker was rebuffed again today in his years-long assault on the high telephone rates paid by Virginia prisoners.
Welfare bills progress in the Virginia Senate
RICHMOND Efforts to expand welfare eligibility, drug test some welfare recipients and limit where their benefits may be used are progressing in the Virginia Senate.
Va. panel snuffs out absentee voting for senior citizens
RICHMOND The only expansion of voting rights that seemed to have a chance of passage in the 2013 General Assembly was quickly and quietly snuffed out today.
Va. panel tables absentee voting for senior citizens
RICHMOND The only expansion of voting rights that seemed to have a chance of passage in the 2013 General Assembly was quickly and quietly snuffed out today.
Va. gun show loophole bill advances, but not for long
RICHMOND Those who've long pined for passage of a bill requiring gun buyers to undergo background checks before purchases from private dealers at gun shows thought a breakthrough had been made when legislation addressing that issue cleared a Senate panel Friday morning.
A false start for a Virginia gun-show bill
RICHMOND A Senate committee's decision Friday to advance legislation that would require all sales of firearms at gun shows to be transacted by licensed dealers who would conduct background checks was short-lived.
