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House panel OKs bill for outside VDOT audit
- A bill that would put the Virginia Department of Transportation through an independent audit and route the potential savings into highway maintenance passed two House committees Tuesday.
Kaine touts public-private cooperation on transportation projects
- Virginia must rely increasingly on partnerships with private companies for its transportation projects as state and federal funds dwindle for the state’s growing needs, Gov. Tim Kaine said Tuesday.
Lawmakers cite budget successes, but transportation fight still looms
- Virginia legislators and the governor said Thursday they have crafted a two-year budget that will keep the commonwealth running amid shriveling revenues and a generally bleak economic picture.
- Virginia legislators and the governor said Thursday they have crafted a two-year budget that will keep the commonwealth running amid shriveling revenues and a generally bleak economic picture.
Dulles rail re-bidding stripped from budget
- The final version of the Virginia General Assembly’s two-year budget will not force the Kaine administration to put the Dulles Rail project out to bid, dashing the House’s hopes of securing a cheaper deal on the rail extension to save its funding.
House leaders reject tax plan, call for regional transportation fix
- House leaders on Friday rejected Sen. Majority Leader Richard Saslaw's plan to plug millions of dollars in lost transportation revenue with a series of statewide and regional taxes, offering instead to put the fix in the hands of elected governments in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.
State senator questions Kaine administration on rail funding
- A Fairfax state senator questioned the Kaine administration this week on a plan to continue work on the imperiled Dulles Rail project in the face of serious doubts over its ability to secure needed funding.
House nixes plan to cut teacher raises, leaving 2009 pay increases in danger
- House leaders scrapped their proposal to shrink the state’s share of teacher pay raises that stood as the largest roadblock to a budget compromise, but said Thursday the change would come at the expense of an immediate salary increase for educators.
- House leaders scrapped their proposal to shrink the state’s share of teacher pay raises that stood as the largest roadblock to a budget compromise, but said Thursday the change would come at the expense of an immediate salary increase for educators.
Saslaw pushes tax increase to fill transportation gap after ruling
- Senate Majority Leader Richard Saslaw on Thursday pushed a long-shot proposal to replace the state’s court-banished transportation funding package with a series of new taxes, both regional and statewide.
Senate passes bill to punish employers of illegal immigrants
- Virginia’s Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a bill to allow the state to strip business licenses from employers convicted of hiring illegal immigrants, one of the few illegal immigration bills to garner bipartisan support in the legislature.
Senate Democrats dig in to fight plan that would reduce teachers’ salaries
- Leaders of Virginia’s Senate Democrats grew increasingly bellicose Wednesday in opposing the House’s plan to cut the state’s funding of teacher pay raises, promising to drag out budget negotiations if the provision isn’t killed.
Kaine attacks ‘willy-nilly’ plan to rebid rail to Dulles
- Gov. Tim Kaine on Tuesday attacked a Virginia House measure that would force him to re-bid the ailing Dulles Rail project, arguing it would scrap a contract “willy-nilly” and deter companies from doing business with the commonwealth.
Va. House budget would cut $400M from teacher salaries, critics warn
- Opponents of the Virginia House's plan to change the way teacher salaries are funded argue it would cut $400 million from the state's share of pay raises and force local governments to raise property taxes.
House, Senate budgets vary widely on how to handle essential services
- Virginia’s House and Senate passed budget plans on Thursday that diverged deeply on how to fund essential services such as health care, education and transportation as well as how to close a $1.4 billion revenue shortfall, setting the stage for a partisan clash as lawmakers seek to forge a single spending plan.
- Virginia’s House and Senate passed budget plans on Thursday that diverged deeply on how to fund essential services such as health care, education and transportation as well as how to close a $1.4 billion revenue shortfall, setting the stage for a partisan clash as lawmakers seek to forge a single spending plan.