City of Alexandria, Virginia
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MEMORANDUM
DATE: FEBRUARY 26, 2018
TO: THE HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL
FROM: MARK B. JINKS, CITY MANAGER /s/
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Update on the 2018 General Assembly Session.
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ISSUE: Update on the 2018 General Assembly Session.
RECOMMENDATIONS: That City Council receive this report.
DISCUSSION1: The 2018 General Assembly Session is in its final two weeks with session scheduled to adjourn on March 10. Crossover occurred on February 13, 2018. The Senate is now considering only House bills or those Senate bills that were amended by the House, and the House is only considering Senate bills or those House bills that were amended in the Senate. March 5, 2018 is the deadline for committee action on legislation.
The House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees released their proposed amendments to the budget on Sunday, February 18, 2018. Each body passed their amended budgets on February 22, 2018. Because the budgets are not the same, they will be resolved in the Budget Conference Committee. Conferees must be named in each body by midnight on February 28, 2018. While we expect Senate budget conferees to be the same as last year's conferees, there will be a number of new budget conferees named in the House due to last year's election.
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 "Veto" Session, at which the General Assembly will accept o...
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