VA Bills I’m tracking
Jan 15, 2009
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Bills I support:
- HB 982: Concealed handgun permit applications — Protects from public disclosure permittee names and descriptive information held by the Department of State Police. Bill forged after The Roanoke Times published a list of names and addresses of those who had conceal carry permits.
- HB 55 : Designating English as official language of State — I think it’s discriminatory that the VA government website only offers Spanish as an alternative language. Why not Korean? Make the official language English so there is no discrimination.
- HB 65 : Voters and voting; photo identification required to vote — Voting is important to the democratic process. We must be able to verify all voters to be sure that they are indeed the person who they say they are.
Bills I oppose:
- HB 904 : Mobile telephone and other wireless electronic devices; use of hands-free accessory while driving — Unfairly targets travelling businessmen as well as more affluent drivers. I would only support this bill if eating, drinking, and any other activity taking focus away from driving were also banned.
- HB 20 : Primary elections; voter registration by political party — Political party affiliations should not used as a filter. Current rules are fine.
- SB 233 : Transportation Plan; include quantifiable measures & achievable goals for greenhouse gas emission — Greenhouse gases is a very broad term and measurement of these gases will accomplish nothing except provide an arbitrary measure to reduce a naturally occurring emission.
- SB 2 : Retail Sales and Use Tax; eliminates exemption for certain fuels — We don’t need any more taxes on gas. And the Use tax should be eliminated, not expanded.
You can view federal bills I’m tracking on OpenCongress.org.
