Transportation Funding and Efficiency
| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 2 - Marshall, R.G. - Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project; prohibits use of state funds for Phase II of Project, etc. | (H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #2 FOIA/Procurement | 01/13/12 |
| notes: Prohibits use of state funds for Phase II of the Dulles Metrorail Project if the Project is subject to a project labor agreement, the policies and bylaws of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority do not permit public access to MWAA's meetings and records as provided in Virginia's FOIA, or the Project is not subject to audit by VDOT or the Auditor of Public Accounts. | |||
| HB 23 - Cole - Transportation Trust Fund; increases amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to Fund. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Assigned App. sub: Transportation | 01/31/12 |
| notes: Increases the amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund from an amount generated by a 0.5 percent tax rate under current law to an amount generated by a one percent tax rate, phased in by a 0.1 percent increase each year for five years, or over a longer period of time if there is a lack of growth in general fund revenues. | |||
| HB 393 - Howell, A.T. - Motor fuels tax; dedicates additional revenue to operation, etc., of transportation system. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/01/12 |
| notes: Increases the motor fuels tax rate by $0.10 per gallon and dedicates the additional revenue to the operation, maintenance, improvement, and expansion of the Commonwealth's transportation system. | |||
| HB 422 - Watts - Transportation; additional funding by imposing and increasing certain taxes. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/01/12 |
| notes: Provides additional funding for transportation by (i) imposing a motor fuels sales tax rate of four percent, phased in over four years, for highway maintenance; (ii) increasing the state sales tax in Northern Virginia by 0.5 percent for transportation projects in Northern Virginia; and (iii) adding an additional recordation tax in Northern Virginia at a rate of $0.40 per $100 valuation. The motor fuels tax is not effective until the unemployment rate in the Commonwealth decreases for four consecutive quarters after July 1, 2011. The bill also reduces the sales and use tax rate on food for human consumption from 1.5 percent to one percent, and repeals the authority for certain localities to impose a local income tax. In addition, the bill removes the sunset date from the 2009 Act of Assembly that reduced the special real property tax rate on commercial property in the localities embraced by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority from $0.25 per $100 of assessed value to $0.125 per $100 of assessed value. Finally, the bill increases the special real property tax rate on commercial property in localities in Hampton Roads from $0.10 per $100 of assessed value to $0.125 per $100 of assessed value. | |||
| HB 427 - Bulova - Highway maintenance funds; CTB to allocate funds on basis of achieving level of disparity. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Assigned App. sub: Transportation | 01/26/12 |
| notes: Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways maintained by the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall consider achieving a minimal level of disparity among highway construction districts in meeting asset management standards. Prior to such allocation, the Board shall release for public review a comparison of the proposed allocation of funds by highway construction district with an allocation of funds based entirely on specific asset management standards by highway construction district. | |||
| HB 688 - O'Quinn - Driver's license, special; required for convicted methamphetamine offenders. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (6-Y 0-N) | 01/24/12 |
| notes: Provides that any person convicted of a violation of § 18.2-248, 18.2-248.02, 18.2-248.03, 18.2-266, 29.1-738, or 46.2-341.24 when such offense involves the possession, manufacture, sale, or consumption of methamphetamine shall be required, if he is licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the Commonwealth, to have a special driver%92s license containing a unique identifying mark for a period of 18 months following his first licensure after the conviction indicating that he is a convicted methamphetamine offender. The same restriction would apply to a special identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles. | |||
| HB 699 - Filler-Corn - Highway maintenance funds; allocation of funds. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways maintained by the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall consider achieving a minimal level of disparity among highway construction districts in meeting asset performance standards. Prior to such allocation, the Board shall release for public review a comparison of the proposed allocation of funds by highway construction district with an allocation of funds based entirely on specific asset performance standards by highway construction district. | |||
| HB 723 - Yancey - Transportation; funding and administration in various construction districts. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 01/30/12 |
| notes: Provides for transportation funding and administration in Hampton Roads, Northern Virginia, the Richmond Highway Construction District, and the Staunton Highway Construction District. | |||
| HB 728 - Dudenhefer - Transportation impact fees; when amount assessed and imposed. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Provides that if a specific development or subdivision received final site plan or subdivision approval prior to the effective date of the locality's impact fee ordinance, the amount of the impact fee to be imposed may be determined at any time prior to the issuance of a building permit. Under current law, the amount of the impact fee must be determined before or at the time of site plan or subdivision approval. | |||
| HB 778 - Tyler - Tolls; prohibits on Interstate 95 without approval of General Assembly. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Prohibits tolling on Interstate 95 without the approval of the General Assembly. | |||
| HB 802 - May - Virginia Pump Toll; established. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/01/12 |
| notes: Imposes the Virginia Pump Toll ("FareShare"), in the amount of (i) $0.50 on each use of a retail motor fuels pump and an additional $0.50 when purchasing 35 or more gallons; (ii) $1.00 on each 12-gallon sale of gasoline (other than for resale) from a transport truck or tank wagon and on each 60-gallon sale of diesel fuel (other than for resale) from a transport truck or tank wagon; (iii) an amount to be determined by the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles on the bulk purchase of clean fuel other than electricity at a rate equivalent to $1.00 times the volume of clean fuel required to fill the average size fuel tank to three quarters full; and (iv) $0.50 on each sale of clean fuel at an electric vehicle charging service facility. Revenue from the FareShare shall be used for highway maintenance and operation in the highway construction district in which the motor fuel is sold. The amount of the FareShare increases by 10 percent every five years. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2013. | |||
| HB 827 - Marshall, R.G. - Transportation districts; repeals allocation of funds. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #4 | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Repeals the allocation of funds to transportation districts. | |||
| HB 876 - Rust - Motor vehicle fuels sales tax; transfer administration and collection to DMV. | (H) Committee on Finance (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Referred to Committee on Finance | 02/03/12 |
| notes: Transfers the administration and collection of the motor vehicle fuels sales tax imposed in certain transportation districts from the Department of Taxation to the Department of Motor Vehicles, effective July 1, 2013. | |||
| HB 889 - Alexander - Tolls; collected for use of Midtown or Downtown Tunnels between Norfolk and Portsmouth. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely | 01/26/12 |
| notes: Requires that, if tolls are collected for use of the Midtown or Downtown Tunnels between Norfolk and Portsmouth, users will be able to pay tolls without use of automated or electronic devices. | |||
| HB 892 - Alexander - Highway Construction Projects Trust Fund; established. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 | 01/20/12 |
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Makes the retail sale of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels subject to the general five percent retail sales and use tax and reduces the fuels tax on such fuels by $0.05 per gallon from $0.175 per gallon to $0.125 per gallon. Under current law, the sale of fuels is exempt from the general retail sales and use tax, but fuels are subject to a fuels tax imposed at the rate of $0.175 per gallon. Of the net additional revenues generated each year under the bill, $250 million would be deposited into the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund and the remainder would be deposited into the Highway Construction Projects Trust Fund created under the bill. Moneys deposited into the Highway Construction Projects Trust Fund would be used to finance or fund the construction, acquisition, reconstruction, or replacement of or improvements or additions to highway projects determined necessary by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The bill also authorizes the issuance of up to $5 billion in bonds for such highway projects with the bonds and the interest thereon to be repaid from the net additional revenues generated by the bill and deposited into the Fund. The Commonwealth Transportation Board is charged with ensuring that of the net additional revenues over the long term approximately 38 percent of such revenues would be used for projects in the Northern Virginia construction district, 31 percent for projects in the Hampton Roads construction district, and 31 percent for projects in all other construction districts in the Commonwealth. |
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| HB 898 - Albo - Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund; for transportation funding. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Dedicates to the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund (i) one-third of the total revenue from the insurance license tax and (ii) the amount of current state sales and use tax revenue attributable to a 0.25 percent sales and use tax rate. | |||
| HB 899 - Albo - Retail Sales and Use Tax and motor fuels tax; funds for transportation. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #1 | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Provides funds for statewide transportation by indexing the motor fuels tax rate to the National Highway Construction Cost Index. The bill also allocates a portion of current sales and use tax revenue by (i) dedicating the revenue equal to a one-quarter percent sales and use tax in Northern Virginia for transportation projects in Northern Virginia, and (ii) dedicating the revenue equal to a one-quarter percent sales and use tax in Hampton Roads for transportation projects in Hampton Roads. | |||
| HB 909 - Minchew - Highway maintenance and construction; allocation of funds. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 01/26/12 |
| notes: Prohibits allocation by the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) of any funds in the Transportation Trust Fund for highway maintenance purposes. | |||
| HB 983 - Scott, J.M. - Motor fuels tax rate; converts rate from cents per gallon to a percentage rate. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/01/12 |
| notes: Converts the rate of taxation on motor fuels from cents per gallon to a percentage rate. The bill provides that the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall calculate the percentage rate in an amount that will most closely yield the amount of cents per gallon being charged on the applicable motor fuel prior to the effective date of the bill. Thereafter, the percentage rates would not change, but would be applied against the average price per gallon of the fuel, less federal and state taxes, as determined by the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles over rolling six-month periods, to determine the cents to be charged. | |||
| HB 1018 - Poindexter - Route 58 Corridor Completion Fund; created. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Assigned App. sub: Transportation | 01/18/12 |
| notes: Dedicates $50 million annually from the general fund to the U.S. Route 58 Trust Fund beginning July 1, 2013, until such time as Route 58 is completed to its intersection with Interstate 77 in Carroll County. | |||
| HB 1027 - Englin - Motor fuels tax; permits two or more localities to impose. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Permits two or more localities that are constructing or operating high capacity transit systems to impose a local motor fuels tax at the rate of 2.1 percent of the wholesale price of fuels sold to retailers. The revenue generated from the tax shall be used to construct or operate high capacity transit systems. | |||
| HB 1039 - Keam - Highway maintenance payments; increased by Commisioner where traffic volumes exceed certain average. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #1 | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Provides for increased highway maintenance payments by the Commissioner of Highways to municipalities where traffic volumes exceed the statewide average by more than 20 percent. | |||
| HB 1239 - Putney - Retail Sales and Use Tax; increased from four percent to five percent, and distribution of revenues. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 01/25/12 |
| notes:
Increases the state retail sales and use tax from four percent to five percent beginning January 1, 2013, subject to a statewide referendum on the same. The increase in the state retail sales and use tax would result in a combined state and local retail sales and use tax of six percent. One-half of the revenues generated would be deposited into a new special fund, the Supplemental Highway Construction and Maintenance Fund, and one-half of the revenues generated would be used in accordance with the general appropriation act for the provision of mental health services, public K through 12 education, and public higher education. Of the sales and use tax revenues deposited into the Supplemental Highway Construction and Maintenance Fund, $200 million each fiscal year would be used for the construction of secondary system roads. The remaining sales and use tax revenues deposited into the Fund would be distributed to the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund to be used (i) to repair bridges that are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete and (ii) for maintenance of the Commonwealth's highways. |
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| HB 1241 - Purkey - Motor fuels tax; required to be indexed starting on January 1, 2014. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Assigned Finance sub: #2 | 01/24/12 |
| notes: Requires that the motor fuels tax rate be indexed on January 1, 2014, and each year thereafter, to the average percentage change in the U.S. Department of Transportation's Transportation Services Index for the three years ending October 31 of the year immediately preceding the affected year. | |||
| HB 1248 - Lingamfelter - Transportation; provides for construction, operation, maintenance, and funding, report. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Assigned App. sub: Transportation | 01/23/12 |
| notes:
Provides for the construction, maintenance, & funding of transportation: (i) creating transportation construction districts & the Transportation Improvement District Fund to fund certain transportation projects, including the authority to issue revenue bonds; (ii) creating the Virginia Toll Road Authority to fund transportation projects through tolls & other charges, (iii) increasing the dedicated transp. allocation of the sales tax from 0.5 to 0.75 percent, phased in over 8 years, with the additional revenue dedicated for highway maintenance and operation, (iv) increasing transportation's share of year-end surpluses to 75 percent, (v) dedicating a portion of revenue growth each year to transportation, & (vi) requiring localities to create transportation plans as part of comprehensive planning. The bill authorizes the CTB to name highways, bridges, interchanges, & other transp facilities for private entities if an annual naming rights fee is paid, with the revenue dedicated to highway maintenance and operation. The bill charges the CTB with greater responsibilities involving integration of land use and transportation planning & authorizes the CTB to withhold federal and state funds for certain local or regional capital improvement projects if those projects are inconsistent with the Statewide Transportation Plan or the Six-Year Improvement Program. Provision is made for use of "revenue-sharing" funds for secondary highway system maintenance projects carried out by local governments. The bill provides for special allocations by the CTB for bridge reconstruction, high priority highway projects, & reconstruction of highways with particularly deteriorated pavements. It provides for the |
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| HB 1297 - Alexander - Tolls; use to fund other facility. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Prohibits tolls imposed for use of one transportation facility to be used in connection with another facility. | |||
| HJ 71 - Watts - Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds. | (H) Committee on Privileges and Elections | (H) Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections | 01/10/12 |
| notes: Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, and Priority Transportation Fund. All revenues dedicated to Transportation Funds on January 1, 2013, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds, unless the General Assembly by general law, other than a general appropriation law, alters the revenues dedicated to the Funds. The amendment requires Funds be appropriated only for transportation systems and projects. The General Assembly may borrow from the Funds for other purposes only by a vote of two-thirds plus one of the members voting in each house, and the loan or reduction must be repaid with reasonable interest within three years. The amendment also limits the use of general and other nontransportation funds for transportation purposes except for obligations authorized or entered into before January 1, 2013. | |||
| HJ 90 - Comstock - Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). | (H) Committee on Privileges and Elections | (H) Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections | 01/10/12 |
| notes: Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, and other funds established by general law for transportation. All revenues dedicated to Transportation Funds on January 1, 2013, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds, unless the General Assembly by general law, other than a general appropriation law, alters the revenues dedicated to the Funds. The amendment limits the use of Fund moneys to transportation and related purposes. The General Assembly may borrow from the Funds for other purposes only by a vote of two-thirds plus one of the members voting in each house, and the loan must be repaid with reasonable interest within four years. | |||
| SB 3 - Black - Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project; prohibits use of state funds for Phase II of Project, etc. | (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Referred to Committee on Finance | 12/01/11 |
| notes: Dulles Metrorail Project. Prohibits use of state funds for Phase II of the Dulles Metrorail Project if the Project is subject to a project labor agreement, the policies and bylaws of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority do not permit public access to MWAA's meetings and records as provided in Virginia's FOIA, or the Project is not subject to audit by VDOT or the Auditor of Public Accounts. | |||
| SB 138 - Puller - Motor vehicle fuels sales tax; transfers administration and collection to DMV. | (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Referred to Committee on Finance | 01/10/12 |
| notes: Transfers the administration and collection of the motor vehicle fuel sales tax imposed in certain transportation districts from the Department of Taxation to the Department of Motor Vehicles, effective July 1, 2013. | |||
| SB 162 - Petersen - Fuels taxes; indexing of tax rates. | (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Referred to Committee on Finance | 01/10/12 |
| notes:
Increases or decreases each year the rates of Virginia's fuels taxes using a fuel efficiency index. The bill would define the fuel efficiency index as the quotient that is obtained when using as the numerator the total annual vehicle miles traveled in the Commonwealth for the relevant year and using as the denominator the total gallons of motor fuel consumed for highway use in the Commonwealth for the relevant year. The numerator and denominator would be the corresponding amounts as published by the Federal Highway Administration of the United States Department of Transportation. The bill would establish 2007 as the base year for the fuel efficiency index. Thus, the percentage change in the fuel efficiency index between the current year and 2007, the base year, would determine the annual percentage increase or decrease in the rates of Virginia's fuels taxes. Each December the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles would compute the adjusted rates of fuels taxes. Currently, Virginia's fuels taxes are fixed at the rate of $0.175 per gallon for each gallon of gasoline, gasohol, and diesel fuel. |
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| SB 213 - Barker - Highway maintenance; allocation of funds by CTB for maintenance of assets within Interstate System. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Continued to 2013 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Provides that allocation of funds by the Commonwealth Transportation Board for maintenance of assets within the Interstate System of Highways and the primary and secondary systems of state highways shall be based on achieving a minimal level of disparity among highway construction districts in meeting asset management standards. | |||
| SB 631 - Watkins - Motor fuels tax; required to be indexed starting on January 1, 2014. | (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Referred to Committee on Finance | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Requires that the motor fuels tax rate be indexed each year to the percentage change in the U.S. Department of Labor's Producer Price Index for Other Nonresidential Construction from January 1 through December 31 of the year immediately preceding the affected year. | |||
| SB 639 - Wagner - Transportation; provides for construction, operation, maintenance, and funding, report. | (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Rereferred to Finance | 01/25/12 |
| SJ 2 - Obenshain - Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). | (S) Committee on Privileges and Elections | (S) Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) | 01/17/12 |
| notes: Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, and other funds established by general law for transportation. All revenues dedicated to Transportation Funds on January 1, 2013, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds, unless the General Assembly by general law, other than a general appropriation law, alters the revenues dedicated to the Funds. The amendment limits the use of Fund moneys to transportation and related purposes. The General Assembly may borrow from the Funds for other purposes only by a vote of two-thirds plus one of the members voting in each house, and the loan must be repaid with reasonable interest within four years. | |||
| SJ 6 - Black - Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). | (S) Committee on Privileges and Elections | (S) Continued to 2013 in Privileges and Elections (15-Y 0-N) | 01/17/12 |
| notes: Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, and other funds established by general law for transportation. All revenues dedicated to Transportation Funds on January 1, 2013, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds, unless the General Assembly by general law, other than a general appropriation law, alters the revenues dedicated to the Funds. The amendment limits the use of Fund moneys to transportation and related purposes. The General Assembly may borrow from the Funds for other purposes only by a vote of two-thirds plus one of the members voting in each house, and the loan must be repaid with reasonable interest within four years. | |||
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