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ation comes up with a model policy for all states to follow regarding driver’s licenses.
The current law permits foreign nationals to renew their licenses without proving that they are here legally.
Seven of the 9/11 terrorists had Virginia identification cards even though they did not live in the state.
Non-residents would pay more to hunt in Virginia.
• Fees non-residents pay to hunt in Virginia will likely go up. The House has easily passed, and the Senate has unanimously approved, a bill to increase non-residents’ yearly hunting licenses from $60 to $80 and three-day hunting licenses from $30 to $40.
The higher fees would raise about $300,000 for the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
Del. Albert C. Pollard (DWhite Stone) patron of the bill, told a legislative committee that he got the idea for the bill while on a hunting trip in Maryland. That state charges $45 and $120 respectively for three-day and yearly hunting licenses for non-residents.
Virginia charges non-residents less to hunt than neighboring states. Pollard said he wants to keep it that way, but a modest increase seems reasonable.
“This fee schedule will keep us lower than four of the five surrounding states and just about even with North Carolina,” he said. “In my view, this would have no negative impact. I specifically designed this to be lower than the surrounding states.”
• Panel OKs denying instate tuition to illegal immigrants. Del. Thelma Drake’s bill denying in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants is now out of the Senate Education and Health Committee and onto the Senate floor for reading.
The committee last week voted in favor of the bill sponsored by Drake (R-Norfolk). The 8-6 vote was along party lines.
Drake’s bill last month passed the House, 88-10.
• Leroy Hassell is sworn in as Supreme Court’s chief justice. Leroy Rountree Hassell was sworn in last week as chief justice of the Virginia Supreme Court. He is the first black chief justice in the court’s 224year history, and only the ninth ever across the nation.
Hassell also is the first chief justice to be elected to the position by the court’s other justices; the vote took place last summer. Formerly the choice of chief justice was based on seniority.
Hassell succeeds Harry Carrico, who will retire after 42 years on the court.
Carrico had been chief justice since 1981.
“I recognize that today’s ceremony has historic overtones, because I will serve as the first black chief justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia,” Hassell told the packed crowd at his investiture. “I do not wish to serve, however, because I happen to be black.
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