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(Continued from Page 1) four pieces of legislation. UI try to hold the number of bills I introduce to a minimum. We get 1,500 to 1,800, entirely too many, every session.”
Of his four bills last year, three passed:
e Provision for an alternative method of posting property by placing identifying paint marks on trees or posts.
• An annexation moratorium prohibiting any city from beginning annexation proceedings against a county prior to July 1,1988.
• Recognition of James Madison University as the state’s flagship institution in cooperation with the Virginia Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution.
Sen. Miller volunteers that the most important bill in his package, a proposal to tie capital gains tax to inflation, faded to make it into law, however.
“I had more favorable comments, even from Democrats who wanted to support it but didn’t because Gov. Baliles didn’t want it in his tax bill,” said Sen. Miller, blaming the defeat of his indexing bill on partisan politics.
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