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Virginia in a Hurry, 2-20-09

by Bob Holsworth

February 19, 2009

Smoking Ban in Most Bars and Restaurants Passes, Big Victory for Kaine

How Delegates and Senators Voted on the Smoking Ban

Senate Education and Health Committe Rejects Cline’s Fetal Anesthesia Bill Requiring Doctors to Tell Women Seeking Abortions That Fetuses Can Feel Pain After 20 Weeks and Making Anesthesia Available

Edward Bell Executed-Kaine Allows Execution of Man Who Killed Police Officer Timbrook to Proceed

Senate Transportation Votes to Prohibit Texting While Driving

Senate Transportation Approves Fralin Bill to Link Driving Privileges and Dropout Prevention

Assembly to Rename the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation the “Virginia Foundation for Health Youth” and Add Childhood Obesity to Its Charge

House Approves Bill to Allow Greene County to Increase Hotel Tax and Put Money Toward Tourism

Senate Kills Griffith Bill That Would Prohibit Localities From Purchasing on Another Locality’s Contract Unless Financially Advantageous Without Vote

Bedford County Looks Into Forming a Broadband Authority

VDOT Plans to Cut Transportation Costs in Hampton Roads

VDOT to Layoff 450 Part-Time Employees in March and 1000 Full-Time Employees Over Next 18 Months

States Prepare to Combat Stimulus Strings

Queen Elizabeth to Knight John Warner

D.C. Area Schools Chiefs’ Travel

Vote by Metro Washington Council of Government Transportation Planning Board to Abandon I-66 Expansion Imperils Federal Funds

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Posted in: Bill Howell, Daily Updates, General Assembly 2009, Health Care, Smoking and Politics in Virginia, Stimulus Package, Tim Kaine

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