General Assembly

Local colleges to get $205M in Virginia bond package
The bonds, part of $1.5 billion statewide, will pay for construction projects at Old Dominion and Norfolk State universities, Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, and Eastern Virginia Medical School.
At 7:35 a.m. Mondays during the session, on public radio station WHRV 89.5 FM, The Virginian Pilot's Bill Bartel and Kurt Etheridge give a preview of what's expected from the General Assembly during the week.
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General Assembly News
- Kaine's tax plan gets tepid backing from Democrats
- Legislators reach some consensus on roads plan
- Kaine to call for June 23 special legislative session on transportation
- Lawmakers will try an informal session on route to road bill
- Hampton Roads colleges to get $205 million in bond package
- Kaine doubles ODU center funding, tweaks payday-loan reform
- Kaine signs bills to help military and their families
- Kaine signs bill to repeal abusive driver fees, give refunds
- Norfolk woman wins cause with ‘by request’ bill from her legislator
- Tight budget shaped assembly's record this session
- Lawmakers postpone decisions on judges
- Va. Lawmakers pass $77 billion budget, but the work's not done
- Gov. Kaine to hold town hall meeting in Virginia Beach
- Virginia legislators reach deal on $77 billion state budget
- Lawmakers' budget talks fizzle; session extended until Thursday
- ABC could stop topless dancing in Chesapeake on July 1
- Area lawmakers support sales tax increase for roads
- Lawmakers break impasse on $77B spending plan
- Norfolk's Judge Griffith won't be reappointed
- General Assembly misses deadline for adjourning - again
- Virginia targets adults who French kiss kids
- Bills on ABC rules, definition of a ‘slayer’ head to Kaine’s desk
- Transportation funding debate mired in legislative gridlock
- Negotiators still deadlocked on key spending issues
- Budget negotiators seem entrenched
- Forget about a quick fix on road funding, local lawmakers say
- Playing and praying help legislators through session
- General Assembly briefs: Foreclosure bill nearly ready for Kaine
- Study of port privatization gets legislative OK
- Compromise doesn't withdraw Virginia from No Child Left Behind
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