Spark It Up!!!: Delegate Bud Phillips

It is good to see my DelBud is on the ball looking out for the people in his district. His HB1151 addresses a pressing issue here at home.

Corporate tax subtraction and sales tax exemption for space flight entities. Provides a corporate income tax subtraction for any gain recognized as a result of (i) passenger ticket sales on a suborbital spaceflight and (ii) resupply services contracts entered with NASA. It also extends the current sales and use tax exemption to include the sale of spaceflight services or activities to spaceflight participants and it extends the sunset date for the exemption to July 1, 2015.

Are you kidding me? Beam me up Scotty. For the record this bill is dead. To DelBud's credit, he did introduce HB1147 that increases penalties on dope dealers and online pharmacies, doctors, etc.

Controlled substances; nonresident pharmacies; penalties. Adds new penalties and increases existing penalties related to controlled substances including: (i) a medical practitioner wrongly prescribing or dispensing a Schedule I or II drug shall be imprisoned for not less than five nor more than 40 years and fined not more than $500,000, and upon a second or subsequent conviction, may be sentenced to imprisonment for life and be fined not more than $500,000, and for Schedule III through V drugs, shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony; (ii) a pharmacist violating any provision of the Drug Control Act shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony for the first offense, and a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense; and (iii) any person wrongfully obtaining a drug through fraud, forgery, misrepresentation, etc., shall be guilty of a Class 5 felony for the first offense and a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense, rather than the current Class 6 felony for all such offenses. Also adds new reporting and approval requirements for nonresident pharmacies doing business over the internet and via electronic mail.

I can support that. As far as I can tell, this bill is the only legislation he introduced worth a dang to the people here in district. I will have more on that later. Will someone please run against this guy and get serious about helping the people in this district. I urge my local readers to check out what DelBud does by clicking here. We pay him for this?