There's a sky-high number of freshman lawmakers, a brand new General Assembly building, and Del. Don Scott just became the first Black speaker of the House of Delegates not to mention hundreds of bills.
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After a bipartisan group of rural and urban legislators proposed legalizing and taxing the devices, state Sen. Jeremy McPike, D-Prince William, filed a bill with tighter rules and more than double the proposed tax.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin wants to cut income taxes by 12% for all Virginia taxpayers and increase the state sales tax by 0.9%, while applying it - for the first time - to some services, such as digital streaming and downloading of products that in an earlier era would have been taxed as goods.
Chesapeake City Council members earlier this month adopted the city's 2024 legislative agenda, a wish list of requests for the next General Assembly session beginning in January.