Transportation: Other
| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 11 - Cole - Transportation; bonds for specific project on northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 95. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 01/30/12 |
| notes: Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue bonds in the principal amount of $550 million to finance the cost of adding an additional lane on both the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 95 from Dumfries to Massaponax in Spotsylvania County to expand the regular travel lanes (not the HOV lanes). | |||
| HB 34 - Albo - Advertising; Commissioner of Highways may enter into agreements with local governing body regarding. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Referred to Committee on Transportation | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Allows the Commissioner of Highways to enter into agreements with any local governing body authorizing local law-enforcement agencies or other local governmental entities to act as agents of the Commissioner regarding unlawful advertising on highways and collection of penalties and costs. | |||
| HB 71 - Bell, Richard P. - Integrated Directional Sign Program; adds term retail. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Stricken from docket by Transportation | 01/19/12 |
| notes: Adds the term "retail" to the Integrated Directional Sign Program, commonly referred to as the "logo sign" program. | |||
| HB 72 - Bell, Richard P. - Highway work zones; required to be clearly marked with warning signs and flashing lights. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Assigned App. sub: Transportation | 01/26/12 |
| notes: Requires highway work zones to be clearly marked with warning signs and flashing lights. | |||
| HB 85 - Greason - HOV lanes; extends sunset provision on use by vehicles with clean special fuel license plates. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #3 | 01/24/12 |
| notes: Extends until July 1, 2013, the sunset on use of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes by vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates, regardless of the number of occupants. | |||
| HB 97 - Wilt - Motorcycles; driving two abreast in a single lane. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Referred to Committee on Transportation | 01/31/12 |
| notes: Allows motorcycles to drive two abreast in a single lane. | |||
| HB 107 - Loupassi - Richmond Metropolitan Authority; composition of Board of Directors, powers. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) Continued to 2013 in Counties, Cities and Towns | 01/27/12 |
| notes: Equalizes board representation among the City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, and Henrico County. The bill also requires that certain actions of the Authority related to construction or acquisition of limited access highways receive approval from the local governing bodies. | |||
| HB 304 - Crockett-Stark - DMV service charge; eliminates fee. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 01/17/12 |
| notes: Eliminates the $5 statutory service charge fee for transactions carried out in DMV that could be carried out by mail, online, or over the telephone. | |||
| HB 310 - Crockett-Stark - Driver's licenses; applicants may designate insulin-dependent or a hearing or speech impairment. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Stricken from docket by Transportation | 01/19/12 |
| notes: Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to prepare an informational brochure to inform driver's license applicants that they may designate insulin-dependent diabetes or a hearing or speech impairment on their driver's license or DMV-issued identification card and to mail such brochure with renewal notices. | |||
| HB 370 - Pogge - Highway median maintenance; VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Tabled in Transportation | 01/19/12 |
| notes: Allows VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments whereby the local governments assume responsibility for maintenance of highway medians within their boundaries. | |||
| HB 394 - Howell, A.T. - Handheld personal communications devices; prohibits use while operating motor vehicle, etc. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Assigned MPPS sub: #2 | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Prohibits the use of handheld personal communications devices while operating a motor vehicle, bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or moped on the highways in the Commonwealth. The bill makes a violation of this prohibition a primary traffic offense. | |||
| HB 404 - Torian - Handheld personal communication devices; prohibits use while driving. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Assigned MPPS sub: #2 | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Prohibits the use of handheld personal communications devices for any purpose other than to make or receive phone calls. | |||
| HB 415 - Watts - Wireless telecommunications device; prohibits using while operating a moving motor vehicle, penalty. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Assigned MPPS sub: #2 | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Prohibits the operation of a moving motor vehicle while engaged in other activities, such as using a wireless telephone or other wireless telecommunications device without a hands-free apparatus, searching for an item, or personal grooming. Current law specifically prohibits the use of a handheld personal communications device to send or read an email or text message while operating a moving motor vehicle. The bill allows for certain exceptions, including the use of a citizens band radio. The offense would be a secondary offense punishable by a $40 fine on the first offense and a $100 fine for each subsequent offense. | |||
| HB 532 - Orrock - Motor vehicles; prohibits operator from engaging in activities that impair operation of vehicle. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Assigned MPPS sub: #2 | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Prohibits the operator of a moving motor vehicle from being engaged in activities that are unnecessary to and that actually impair the operation of a motor vehicle. Certain exemptions apply. A violation of the statute would be a traffic offense. | |||
| HB 536 - Orrock - Motor fuels tax; removes requirement that bulk users & retailers of undyed diesel fuel be licensed. | (H) Committee on Finance (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Referred to Committee on Finance | 01/27/12 |
| notes: Removes the requirement that bulk users and retailers of undyed diesel fuel be licensed and includes references to tank wagons as a method of shipping. | |||
| HB 539 - Poindexter - Private road; county ordinance may require maintenance by certain lot purchasers. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #1 | 01/27/12 |
| notes: Provides that any county may by ordinance require that, in any instance where individual lots for residential use are subdivided from a larger tract, the deed shall require that each lot purchaser contribute a pro rata share for required private road maintenance. The ordinance may also authorize the majority of lot owners on any private road, whether acting as a group or through a duly organized homeowners' association, to collect from each lot owner on the private road a pro rata share of the reasonable costs of repair, upkeep, and maintenance of the private road. | |||
| HB 560 - Marshall, D.W. - Driver's licenses; prohibits issuance to certain persons. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Passed by indefinitely in Transportation | 01/26/12 |
| notes: Prohibits issuance of driver's licenses to any person less than 21 years old unless he is either a high school graduate or has earned a GED. | |||
| HB 575 - Marshall, D.W. - Salem Highway Construction District Transportation Fund; established. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 01/30/12 |
| notes: Provides for transportation funding in the Salem Highway Construction District by allocating revenue attributable to a portion of economic growth due to or facilitated by the Inland Port in Montgomery County. | |||
| HB 583 - Watson - Mobile infrared transmitters; allows local governments to use devices to change traffic lights. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (7-Y 0-N) | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Allows local governments that control the highways within their boundaries the ability to control the use of traffic control signal preemption devices used to change traffic light signals. | |||
| HB 584 - Watson - Highway median maintenance; VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #1 | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Allows VDOT to enter into agreements with local governments whereby the local governments assume responsibility for maintenance of highway medians within their boundaries. | |||
| HB 588 - Merricks - Speed limits; maximum speed limit in an industrial park is 35 miles per hour. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends striking from docket | 02/01/12 |
| notes: Provides that the maximum speed limit in an industrial park is 35 miles per hour. | |||
| HB 652 - Kory - Handheld personal communications devices; penalty if text messaging and emailing while driving. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Assigned MPPS sub: #2 | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Allows police officers to issue citations to violators who text message or email while operating a moving motor vehicle. Currently, police officers must have cause to stop or arrest a driver for some other violation before issuing a citation. | |||
| HB 659 - Surovell - Transportation Board; increases number of members. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 01/26/12 |
| notes: Increases the number of members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 18 and changes the areas of representation to the congressional districts. The bill also assigns the at-large members to specific transportation areas. | |||
| HB 693 - Plum - HOV lanes; extends sunset provision on use by vehicles with clean special fuel license plates. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #3 | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Extends until July 1, 2013, the sunset on use of high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes by vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates, regardless of the number of occupants. | |||
| 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 731 - Dudenhefer - Performance guarantees; street construction. | (H) Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | (H) Tabled in Counties, Cities and Towns | 02/03/12 |
| notes: Allows localities to retain full performance guarantees until streets in a new development are accepted by the state agency, local government department or agency, or other public authority that is responsible for maintaining and operating such public facility. The bill also provides that if a developer is in default with regard to street completions in another development within a locality, the locality may withhold acceptance of securities or plat approvals. Furthermore, a locality may withhold building permits or occupancy permits within a development until streets in a new development are accepted by the state agency, local government department or agency, or other public authority that is responsible for maintaining and operating such public facility. | |||
| HB 741 - Jones - Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission; powers. | (H) Committee on General Laws | (H) Assigned GL sub: #2 FOIA/Procurement | 01/27/12 |
| notes: Authorizes the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Commission to review the detailed proposal for certain qualifying transportation facilities under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 prior to the execution of an interim or comprehensive agreement by the responsible public entity. The bill sets out the time frames for review by the Commission. The bill also requires a public hearing on proposals during the proposal review period. | |||
| HB 742 - Fariss - Farm vehicles; distance limit. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Passed by indefinitely in Transportation | 01/26/12 |
| notes: Increases the maximum distance that an unregistered farm use vehicle may be driven on a highway to obtain agricultural or horticultural supplies from 30 to 200 miles and to transport farm produce or livestock from 50 to 300 miles. | |||
| HB 746 - Cline - Farm vehicles; exemption from registration. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (7-Y 0-N) | 02/01/12 |
| notes: Increases from 7,500 to 10,000 pounds the gross vehicle weight rating associated with exemption from registration of certain farm vehicles (including trailers and semitrailers). | |||
| 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 785 - Lopez - Following too closely; includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, mopeds, etc. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely | 02/01/12 |
| notes: Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable. | |||
| HB 800 - Webert - Speed limits; shall be 35 miles per hour on nonsurface treated highways. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Read first time | 02/03/12 |
| notes: Provides that the speed limit on nonsurface treated roads shall be 35 miles per hour. Current law imposes the 35 mph limit only in certain counties. | |||
| 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 805 - May - On-road clean screen program; vehicle emissions inspection. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB805H1 | 02/03/12 |
| notes: Includes the on-road clean screen program and on-road emissions inspections as comparable equipment and devices to satisfy emissions inspections in the Commonwealth. The bill contains technical amendments. | |||
| HB 806 - May - Overweight and oversize vehicle permits and fees; provides a method of assigning cost-based fees. | (H) Committee on Appropriations | (H) Assigned App. sub: Transportation | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Provides a uniform method of assigning cost-based fees based on the amount that a vehicle is overweight. The bill also allocates payment of fees into specific funds. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2013. | |||
| HB 810 - May - Transportation Accountability, Joint Commission on; admin. staff support by House Clerk's Office. | (H) Committee on Rules | (H) Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 0-N) | 01/26/12 |
| notes: Provides for staffing of the Commission by the Clerk's Office of the house of the General Assembly of which the Chairman is a member and the Division of Legislative Services, with technical support from the JLARC. | |||
| 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 864 - Rust - Transportation Board; changes composition. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Passed by for the day in Transportation | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Changes the composition of the CTB. One member will be appointed from each of Virginia's congressional districts (as they were on January 1, 2012) and four more will be at-large appointees: one representing seaports, one representing aviation, one representing railroads, and one representing mass transit. The three ex officio members remain unchanged. | |||
| HB 868 - Rust - Plug-in electric-drive vehicles; may park free of charge in certain parking spaces when recharging. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Passed by indefinitely in Transportation | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Provides that plug-in electric-drive vehicles may park free of charge in government owned or controlled parking space when the vehicles are recharging their batteries. | |||
| HB 874 - Rust - Handheld personal communications devices; penalty if text messaging and emailing while driving. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Assigned MPPS sub: #2 | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Allows police officers to issue citations to violators who text message or email while operating a moving motor vehicle. Currently, police officers must have cause to stop or arrest a driver for some other violation before issuing a citation. | |||
| HB 959 - Bell, Robert B. - Retail Sales and Use Tax; applicable to public transportation companies operated by locality. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (9-Y 0-N) | 02/01/12 |
| notes: Clarifies that the sales and use tax is applicable to any company that is owned, operated, or controlled by any county, city, or town and provides public transportation services. | |||
| HB 1053 - Anderson - Handheld personal communications devices; penalty if text messaging and emailing while driving. | (H) Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | (H) Assigned MPPS sub: #2 | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Removes the "secondary enforcement" provision from the statute prohibiting sending or reading email or text messages while driving. | |||
| HB 1164 - Bulova - Secondary and urban system highways; STO to conduct periodic examination of process. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Read second time and engrossed | 02/03/12 |
| notes: Requires the Secretary of Transportation, at least once every four years, to examine the process by which secondary and urban highway system maintenance and improvement projects are approved. | |||
| HB 1229 - Orrock - Persons with disabilities; SHHR to convene work group to develop plan to address needs. | (H) Committee on Rules | (H) Referred to Committee on Rules | 01/20/12 |
| notes: Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Resources to convene a work group composed of various stakeholders to develop a plan for addressing housing and transportation needs of Virginians with disabilities. | |||
| HB 1245 - May - Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority; changes composition. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Read first time | 02/03/12 |
| notes: Changes the composition of the Authority. | |||
| HB 1246 - Ramadan - Dulles Greenway; allowed to lease property for outdoor advertising, SCC to approve toll rates. | (H) Committee on Commerce and Labor | (H) Assigned C & L sub: #1 | 01/31/12 |
| notes: Allows the Dulles Greenway to lease property under its control for purposes of outdoor advertising. The bill also requires that the amount of toll vary according to distance traveled and take into consideration any income generated by the advertising leases. | |||
| HB 1263 - Marshall, D.W. - VDOT Integrated Directional Sign Program; businesses can install if they meet other criteria. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Assigned Transportation sub: #1 | 01/27/12 |
| notes: Provides that prequalified businesses can manufacture, install, and maintain their Logo Signs if they meet other criteria for participation in the Program. If they do, they will not have to pay any other fee for participation in the Program. | |||
| HJ 131 - Minchew - Route 28; VDOT to study feasibility of extending across Potomac River into Maryland, etc. | (H) Committee on Rules | (H) Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 1-N) | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to study the desirability and feasibility of extension of Virginia Route 28 across the Potomac River into Maryland and the inclusion of Virginia Route 28 in the Interstate Highway System. | |||
| HJ 134 - Anderson - Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Parkway; JLARC to study economic impact of proposed projects. | (H) Committee on Rules | (H) Subcommittee recommends laying on the table | 02/02/12 |
| notes: Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the potential economic impact of the proposed Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Parkway transportation infrastructure projects. | |||
| HJ 185 - Albo - Highway and monorail transportation, combined; Congress to support funding for hybrid systems, etc. | (H) Committee on Rules | (H) Tabled in Rules | 01/31/12 |
| notes: Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the Congress of the United States should support a federal funding grant for development of new technology, hybrid systems of combined highway and monorail transportation methods and an amendment to 23 U.S.C. § 111(a), Agreements Relating to Use of and Access to Rights-of-Way %96 Interstate System. | |||
| SB 27 - Locke - License plates; display of single plate on registered vehicles. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Continued to 2013 in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) | 01/18/12 |
| notes: Provides for display of a single license plate on registered vehicles. | |||
| SB 40 - Reeves - Retail Sales and Use Tax; applicable to public transportation companies operated by locality. | (S) Committee on Finance | (S) Printed as engrossed 12101585D-E | 02/03/12 |
| notes: Clarifies that the sales and use tax is applicable to any company that is owned, operated, or controlled by any county, city, or town and provides public transportation services. | |||
| SB 161 - Petersen - Transportation Board; increases number of membership. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Continued to 2013 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Increases the number of members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 18 and changes the areas of representation to the congressional districts. The bill also assigns the at-large members to specific transportation areas. | |||
| SB 219 - Barker - Handheld personal communications devices; penalty if text messaging and emailing while driving. | (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (S) Rereferred to Courts of Justice | 01/23/12 |
| notes: Allows police officers to issue citations to violators who text message or email while operating a moving motor vehicle. Currently, police officers must have cause to stop or arrest a driver for some other violation before issuing a citation. | |||
| SB 230 - Herring - Highway projects; VDOT to provide for training and certification of local government employees. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) | 01/31/12 |
| notes: Requires VDOT to provide for training and certification of local government employees to enable them to administer locally performed highway maintenance and construction projects without additional VDOT supervision. | |||
| SB 231 - Herring - Taxicabs; local regulation. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Read third time and passed Senate (38-Y 0-N 1-A) | 01/27/12 |
| notes: Disallows counties, cities, and towns from reducing the number of taxicabs that are permitted or authorized under the local ordinance, unless there is non-use or cause. | |||
| SB 392 - Marsden - Transportation Board; increases number of membership. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Continued to 2013 in Transportation (15-Y 0-N) | 01/25/12 |
| notes: Increases the number of members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 18 and changes the areas of representation to the congressional districts. The bill also assigns the at-large members to specific transportation areas. | |||
| SB 530 - Marsden - VDOT projects, certain; required to hold at least one public hearing before undertaking. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) | 01/31/12 |
| notes: Requires VDOT to hold at least one public hearing before undertaking any safety-related or congestion management-related highway project requested by or to be located adjacent to any college, university, or institution of higher education in the Commonwealth. | |||
| SB 531 - Marsden - Northern Virginia Transportation District; establishes responsibilities for various entities. | (S) Committee on Transportation | (S) Constitutional reading dispensed (37-Y 0-N) | 02/03/12 |
| notes: Establishes responsibilities for various entities for long-range transportation planning for the Northern Virginia Transportation District. | |||
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