City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: MARCH 6, 2016
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Consideration of an Update on the 2016 General Assembly Session.
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ISSUE: Update #4 on the 2016 General Assembly Session.
RECOMMENDATION: That City Council receive this report.
DISCUSSION: The 2016 General Assembly Session is in its final days. It is scheduled to adjourn Saturday, March 12; it may adjourn a day or so early. There are several dozen bills that are in conference or otherwise still making their way through the process. All bills must be out of committee no later than midnight on Monday, March 7.
The most significant bill still in process is the State budget, which is in conference. Once the budget conferees reach agreement, their conference report cannot go to the House and Senate floors for a vote any sooner than 48 hours after copies of the conference report are made available to all legislators (this requirement was included in the Procedural Resolution adopted at the beginning of Session).
The Governor will have 30 days following Session to review all the bills that have passed and decide whether to sign them, send them back to the General Assembly with proposed amendments, or veto them. The Reconvened Session, at which the General Assembly will accept or reject the Governor's amendments to, or vetoes of legislation, will be held on April 20.
City Package. As noted in the last Update, many of the bills that would have enacted positions in the 2016 City Package have died. Since the last Update, the House defeated legislation that would have put a floor on the local tax imposed on motor vehicle fuels sold in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.
Several City Package items, however, have passed the General Assembly. Legislation requiring ...
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