Legislative Alerts; Legislative Updates

VLCT issues legislative alerts, usually as the legislative session winds down, when legislators need to hear from municipal officials about a particular issue and when time is of the essence. VLCT typically issues legislative updates to provide the status of legislative activity. They are chiefly informational and do not require you to contact your legislators.

• Legislative Alert 02-07-12. Senate action needed to reverse reduction in State’s contribution to Education Fund.
• Legislative Alert 01-23-12. Senate to vote this week on H.558, the state’s FY12 budget adjustment act, which includes a House amendment that could undo the change made by the 2011 legislature that resulted in the state General Fund support for education dropping from the statute-mandating $309.8 M. to be provided in FY13 to the $280.2 M. the Governor included in his FY13 budget.
• Legislative Alert 01-10-12. House committee to take testimony on H.239, a bill that would mandate that municipal employees pay an “agency fee” to a labor union even if they did not choose to join the union. VLCT opposes this bill.
• Legislative Update 10-26-11. House Ways and Means Committee approves bill to abate state school taxes.