Virginia Assembly: As Active As a Cat on Fire

The Virginia Assembly is spinning out bills like a mad weaver this session. Some of the measures proposed by the Senate include, higher taxes on buying autos and higher registration fees. Truckers are targeted for higher registration fees also. Sessions for the State Senate have gone into overtime, weekend sessions were not uncommon this year. Soon they will meet the mid point in the session and get ready for the second heat.

Other bills put forward are:

Restricting access to abortion
Bans on smoking in workplaces
Making "Shenandoah" the state song
Increase the grantor tax on real estate from 10 cents per hundred dollars to 40 cents per hundred. (a four fold increase)
A tax holiday for school supplies
Deny illegal aliens in-state tuition rates
Same Sex Marriage refusal

There is a bill proposed to end an estate tax imposed posthumously on millionaires (at least the rich will feel some relief.)

And then there are:

Bills that toughen penalties for child-sex predators

Yet we couldn't help not to tell you about this article that shows how a person arrested for sheep abuse will be put on a sex predator list.