A new state budget bill is ready for General Assembly action Wednesday, with good news for public schools, behavioral health services, health insurance premiums and pay raises for teachers and state employees.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin talks about state revenues to the General Assembly’s money committees last year. Corporate refund delays became an issue last week when Secretary of Finance Stephen Cummings told legislators that the tax department had shifted staff from reviewing corporate filings to handling individual tax returns. That rekindled worries that Youngkin’s administration had pressed officials to speed checks to individual taxpayers to arrive ahead of Election Day in 2022 and 2023.
Sen. Janet Howell, D-Fairfax, co-chair of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, and Del. Barry Knight, R-Virginia Beach, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, played key roles in the budget negotiations.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin talks about state revenues to the General Assembly’s money committees last year. Corporate refund delays became an issue last week when Secretary of Finance Stephen Cummings told legislators that the tax department had shifted staff from reviewing corporate filings to handling individual tax returns. That rekindled worries that Youngkin’s administration had pressed officials to speed checks to individual taxpayers to arrive ahead of Election Day in 2022 and 2023.
Sen. Janet Howell, D-Fairfax, co-chair of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee, and Del. Barry Knight, R-Virginia Beach, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, played key roles in the budget negotiations.
