1 prisons.” He continued, "Education’s going to have to

1 prisons.”

He continued, "Education’s going to have to suffer or mental health is going to have to suffer or state employees are going to suffer. . . . There just is not enough money to go around. Fundamentally, it’s a balancing act.”

Del Thomas M. Moncure Jr. (RFauquier/Stafford) doesn’t think the General Assembly will take substantive action on prisons until next year.

“We’ll lay the groundwork,” he said, “but in the off year of the budget you’re just not going to come up with anything dramatic. ”

• Transportation districts — Such districts would let localities impose a tax to help fund transportation projects of regional importance. The districts would be designed after sewer authority districts.

The bill was introduced during the special session last September but was carried over for technical reasons.

But use legislation can’t be carried over from a special session; the bill will be reintroduced and sponsored by Del. Waddell.

o Censure — The Senate will decide whether to follow a committee, recommendation and censure Sen. Peter K. Babalas (D-Norfolk) on conflict-of-interest charges for which he was acquitted last year.

The Senate seems divided about how to deal with the committee recommendation.

Recent newspaper accounts appear to reflect those differences. On Jan. 8 the (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot reported that Sen. Babalas, if reprimanded, would question his colleagues about possible conflicts of interest over certain votes they made.

But Jan. 9, the Richmond TimesDispateh stated that Sen. Babalas and the Democratic leadership had worked out a fragile agreement that would minimize open and embarrassing debate among Democrats.

For political reasons in an election year, the Senate will try to dispose of the Babalas matter this week, Sen. Truban predicted.

“I think the Democrats are going to work that out. The courts ruled you can’t look into the mind of a man and see if he acted willfully or not.”

If the Democrats wanted to punish Sen. Babalas, they should have done so before the court ruling, Sen. Truban said. Besides, he added, “Babalas has had enough.”

Other matters to receive attention during the Assembly session include:

• Phosphate ban — Proposal would ban phosphate detergents to help preserve the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland and Washington, D.C., already have done so.

Gov. Baliles said he would support a ban.

• Regional primary — A bill is expected to be introduced to have Virginia join 12 other southern states in a regional presidential primary on March 8,1988.

• Drug enforcement — Attorney General Sue Terry’s proposals for tougher enforcement of anti-drug laws in the schools.

• Contact visits — A bill by Sen. Robert E. Russell (R-Chesterfield) to prohibit contact visits for death row inmates.

• Blaze orange — Legislation would require hunters to wear blaze orange clothing during deer season.

• Faculty raises — A proposed pay raise for college faculty members.

• No-pass, no play — A watereddown version of Del. O’Brien’s nopass, no-play proposal for high school athletes.