Governor McDonnell dubbed 2012 as “The Year of the Entrepreneur” and in doing so, pushed for legislation to help small businesses expand and compete and to enable other economic development initiatives. Virginia Public Radio’s Tommie McNeil reports that many of those bills received bipartisan support, gained passage, and became new state laws this week.
New Laws Series Continues: Entrepreneurs
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