Archives for January 2017

Updated Action alert: Support Airbnb bills that would preserve local authority Action needed: Please call your Senator and Delegate by Friday and ask them to SUPPORT these bills. Bills are to be voted on by the Senate Local Government Committee on Monday morning, February 6. SB 1578 (Norment) authorizes a locality to adopt an ordinance requiring the registration […]

Action alert: Original Airbnb bills would preserve local authority; substitute bill does not Action needed:  Please call members of Senate Local Government Committee by NOON TOMORROW in SUPPORT of original versions of bills and in OPPOSITION to industry substitute. Bills are to be voted on by the committee tomorrow afternoon. SB 1578 (Norment) authorizes a locality to adopt an […]

Broadband bill postponed till next week; more time to register OPPOSITION The bill is HB2108 by Delegate Byron and was heard initially in House Commerce and Labor on Thursday of this week.  Delegate Byron spoke for a long period, provided a proposed substitute, and then asked for the bill to be postponed until February 2, […]