Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) signed a $188 billion two-year state budget into law yesterday, WVEC reports. The spending plan includes $101 million for toll relief credits — $77 million the first year and $24 million the second year — for qualifying Hampton Roads drivers with less than $50,000 in annual income. (Toll relief proposals have been a topic of much negotiation and speculation in recent months.) Hampton Roads also will receive a combined $125 million for flood preparedness and coastal storm risk management.
The Virginian-Pilot (scroll down to “Toll Relief” heading”) also covers this story.
The scope of the toll credits program funded by the appropriations is described in the budget bill (HB 30) at Item 441 on PDF page 513.