GENERAL ASSEMBLY

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 12, 1992                   TAG: 9202120329
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO 
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY
DEATH PENALTY: The Senate voted 34-6 to expand the death penalty to cover murders of judges, jurors, witnesses and other court personnel with the intent of keeping them from performing their duties.\ \ ELECTORAL COLLEGE: The House voted 54-44 to pass a bill changing the way Electoral College votes are distributed from winner-take-all to a proportional system.\
\ REDISTRICTING: The Senate voted 25-14 to reject an effort by Republicans to overhaul the congressional redistricting plan approved by the assembly last year.\ \ COURTROOM CAMERAS: The Senate voted 37-3 to pass a bill allowing cameras in the courtroom statewide.\ \ POLLUTION FEES: The Senate voted 29-10 to require fees for water pollution permits and 35-5 to require fees for air pollution permits.\ \ INCINERATOR PERMITS: The Senate voted 39-0 to pass a bill imposing a one-year moratorium on permits for medical waste incinerators.\ \ CONSUMERS: The House voted 90-10 to pass a bill requiring merchants to inform customers if information about their purchases will be placed on lists for sale to other companies.\ \ ELECTED OFFICES: The House voted 58-40 to pass a bill prohibiting elected officials from holding two offices simultaneously and requiring an official elected to another office to resign the first position within 30 days after the election to the second office.\ \ GUN BUYERS' ID: The House voted 97-0 to pass a bill requiring gun buyers to show two forms of identification that verify residence.\ \ INTEREST INCOME: The House Finance Committee delayed until 1994 the effective date of a bill exempting from taxation the first $250 of interest income and added a clause requiring the bill to be re-enacted next year.\ \ TAX BREAKS: The Finance Committee sent to the House floor several bills deferring for two years several previously approved tax breaks to save about $184 million.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB