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2012 SPECIAL SESSION I

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HB 1301 Budget Bill.


floor: 04/17/12  House: VOTE: ADOPTION (77-Y 19-N)

YEAS--Albo, Alexander, Anderson, BaCote, Bell, Richard P., Bell, Robert B., Brink, Byron, Cline, Cole, Comstock, Cosgrove, Cox, J.A., Cox, M.K., Crockett-Stark, Dance, Dudenhefer, Edmunds, Fariss, Farrell, Garrett, Gilbert, Greason, Habeeb, Head, Helsel, Hodges, Howell, A.T., Hugo, Iaquinto, Ingram, Joannou, Johnson, Jones, Kilgore, Knight, Landes, LeMunyon, Lewis, Lingamfelter, Loupassi, Marshall, D.W., Massie, May, Merricks, Miller, Minchew, Morefield, Morris, O'Bannon, O'Quinn, Orrock, Peace, Pogge, Poindexter, Purkey, Putney, Ramadan, Ransone, Rush, Rust, Scott, E.T., Scott, J.M., Sherwood, Stolle, Tata, Torian, Villanueva, Ware, O., Ware, R.L., Watson, Webert, Wilt, Wright, Yancey, Yost, Mr. Speaker--77.

NAYS--Bulova, Carr, Filler-Corn, Herring, Hope, James, Keam, Lopez, McClellan, McQuinn, Morrissey, Plum, Sickles, Spruill, Surovell, Toscano, Tyler, Ward, Watts--19.

ABSTENTIONS--0.

NOT VOTING--Englin, Kory, Marshall, R.G., Robinson--4. 

 

Cosgrove - While I am voting for this budget, I object to Item 3-6.04 #2c.  Chesapeake will have $47,783 taken from its fines and fee and transferred to the Literary Fund.  Chesapeake has funded the Chesapeake Expressway Toll and operates this facility.  I object to taking fines from a locality that has funded its own roads and is paying the bonds used to pay for that road.

Ramadan - I have deep reservations about the transportation section of this Budget. This Bill does not address extending Rail to Dulles and the 87th District which is in dire need for mass transit.  The final conference report did indeed address additional funding for education, public safety and other core functions of government but it didn't include any funding for Dulles Rail.  I therefore object to this Budget compromise and request $250 million investment by the Commonwealth towards Dulles Rail, all of which will be conditioned on good business practices, no Project Labor Agreements, no alternative Project Labor Agreements, distance pricing, transparency and accountability.

Crockett-Stark - I feel it is my responsibility to vote for the budget.  I am against all of the VRS hybrid plan and changes.  I am against taking fines money from localities for general funds.  State employees/constitutional officers should have had a raise year 1.