Visit Pittsylvania County! Photo Source: AAF Tank Museum Facebook The AAF Tank Museum is a living memorial dedicated to the Tank and Cavalry soldiers of the world. Before 1981 some of the artifacts that make
Visit Pittsylvania County! Photo Source: AAF Tank Museum Facebook The AAF Tank Museum is a living memorial dedicated to the Tank and Cavalry soldiers of the world. Before 1981 some of the artifacts that make
As reported in an earlier Capitol Contact, SB 342 (Peake) requires that the state fully compensate localities or regional authorities for the costs of housing
SB 14 (Petersen) changes the current law to require that only the county attorney or if there is no county attorney, the county clerk receive service
VACo opposed SB 613 (Surovell), which provides that when a local governing body is named a deponent, it shall designate at least one member of
HB 1051 (Watts), legislation that modernizes the Communications Sales and Use Tax (CSUT) to reflect the present-day telecommunications world, will be heard tomorrow afternoon in
SB 902 (Lucas) makes it a local option to provide a property tax exemption for solar facilities greater than 100 Megawatts (MW) in electric generating
VACo supports two stormwater bills patroned by Delegate David Bulova that have been referred to the House Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources Committee. First, HB
SB 37 (Stanley), the Virginia Grocery Investment Fund and Program bill, has been docketed to be heard in the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday, January
VACo opposes HB 1603 (Roem), which requires public bodies to waive the first two hours of search and production of documents for any requestor that
Delegates Lashrecse Aird and Israel O’Quinn announced today a bipartisan amendment in support of economically disadvantaged urban and rural school districts. The amendment seeks to
On January 22, the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee met to consider legislation relevant to communications infrastructure. The Committee dealt with legislation that mandates an
VACo worked with members of the General Assembly to introduce budget amendments that seek to address key priorities of local government. Member budget amendments were
VACo opposes HB 1471 (Hugo), which is a refiling of similar bills defeated during the 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 legislative sessions. HB 1471 seeks
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