The Virginia Senate Finance Committee will conduct a hearing during its Jan. 18 meeting that starts at 9 a.m. on proposed legislation (SB 836) that would require localities to base the Business, Professional and Occupational License (BPOL) tax on the Virginia taxable income of a business instead of the current law that gives a locality the option to impose the tax upon gross receipts or Virginia taxable income.

The Virginia House of Delegates just recessed for the weekend, completing our first week of the 2017 legislative session of the General Assembly. I’m still at my desk on the floor of an empty House chamber as my fellow Delegates make their way home for the weekend. Before driving north to Prince William County this afternoon, I want to give you this first-hand report from my perspective. Read the delegate's bills & give him opinions below.

Congressman Rob Wittman (VA-1) who represents part of Prince William County released the following statement Jan. 13 after voting in favor of a budget resolution allowing the House and Senate to begin the Obamacare repeal and replacement process.

.S. Sen Mark R. Warner (D-VA), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued a statement today on the 51-48 FY 2017 Budget Resolution vote by the Senate, which would begin the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without providing a viable replacement:

Interested Virginians (with internet access) now will be able to view the floor proceedings of the 2017 session of the Virginia House of Delegates on demand a few hours after the day's session is concluded.

In 2015, a strain of avian influenza resulted in economic losses of more than a billion dollars and led to the death of 50 million chickens and turkeys in the upper Midwest. That same strain, H5N2, was detected in a wild duck in Montana-wild waterfowl are known carriers of avian influenza.

Prince William Board of County Supervisors held a Dec. 9 ribbon cutting to officially open newly widened Route 28 and realigned Vint Hill Road.

Governor Terry McAuliffe Jan. 10 introduced a legislative package for the 2017 General Assembly session which a press release said is aimed at "strengthening Virginia’s ethics reforms and expanding access at the polls."