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Budget Deliberations Dominate General Assembly Session Agenda

posted April 7, 2008


A very busy session of the General Assembly adjourned in early March, one week longer than called for by the Constitution. The legislature enacted measures that, among many other things, are intended to improve the Commonwealth’s mental health laws and performance, to tighten up the rules for payday lenders, to increase the penalties for animal fighting, to improve foster care, to better enforce zoning regulations, to eliminate bail for undocumented people who have been charged with a crime, to clamp down on abusive “puppy mills,” and to reduce identity theft. To the relief of many, the General Assembly also scrapped the extremely unpopular “civil remedial fees” or “abuser fees” that were part of the statewide portion of last year’s transportation legislation.

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Written by LeeDem · Filed Under Delegate Sickles