Motor Vehicles

Motor Vehicles

P Passed

P HB601

Vehicle registration; fees. Increases to three dollars (from present two dollars) the surcharge on vehicle registrations used for emergency medical services purposes (the so-called "two for life" fee).

Patron - Orrock

P HB1305

Special license plates; Sons of Confederate Veterans. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. No logo or emblem is to be incorporated into the plate's design.

Patron - May

P HB1470

Local motor vehicle licenses. Allows issuance of local vehicle licenses free of charge to volunteer deputy sheriffs.

Patron - Davis

P HB1498

Speed limit for school buses. Provides for a maximum speed limit of 55 mph for school buses on highways where the speed limit is more than 55 mph. This does not affect speed limits in effect between the first and last stop of school buses taking on or discharging school children.

Patron - Sherwood

P HB1499

Mopeds. Restates the definition of "moped" to eliminate any ambiguity as to the inclusion of two sorts of conveyances within the single definition.

Patron - Sherwood

P HB1576

Out-of-service inspections. Adds Harrisonburg and Rockingham County to the lists of localities whose specially trained law-enforcement officers are authorized to perform motor vehicle out-of-service inspections.

Patron - Landes

P HB1581

Priority of security interests in motor vehicles. Clarifies that the title conveyed to the purchaser of personal property, including automobiles, sold for delinquent taxes is free from the claims of any person with a security interest in the property when the tax lien has priority over the security interest and the lienor is given notice of the sale. Sale proceeds are to be first applied to unpaid taxes and then to secured parties. Current provisions relating to the priority of security interests in automobiles do not address the priority of tax liens. Under current law, taxes specifically assessed per item or in bulk against property distrained have priority over all security interests.

Patron - Davies

P HB1598

Speed limits. Provides that additional highways, functionally classified as minor arterials, are eligible for posting as residence district highways where speed limit violators are subject to enhanced penalties.

Patron - Parrish

P HB1623

Department of Motor Vehicles; customer services. Grants the DMV Commissioner general authority to provide discounts and other incentives to those who conduct business with DMV by mail or by electronic means (rather than in person at a DMV office); authorizes issuance of learner's permits, driver's licenses, commercial driver's licenses, and DMV identification cards with scenic borders; authorizes permanent registration for certain trucks weighing at least 7,501 pounds but no more than 26,000 pounds; provides for optional registration of tow dollies and converter gears.

Patron - Rollison

P HB1746

Parking. Adds Bath County to the list of counties (Augusta and Rockingham) that may regulate parking, but not install parking meters.

Patron - Deeds

P HB1797

Special license plates omnibus. Reduces the fee charged for license plates issued to recipients of certain military decorations; authorizes special license plates for: (i) persons awarded the Bronze Star with a "V" for valor; (ii) certain honorably discharged veterans; (iii) members and former members of the 82nd Airborne Division; (iv) members and former members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade; (v) members of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Virginia; (vi) members of the Society of Black Engineers, (vii) towns (displaying town logos); (viii) supporters of the Chincoteague Pony Association; (ix) Internet commerce; (x) supporters of Greyhound adoptions, (xi) Eagle Scouts; (xii) members of the Navy League, (xiii) members of the Order of AHEPA, (xiv) horse enthusiasts, (xv) supporters of public schools, (xvi) members of the Virginia State Police Alumni, Inc., (xvii) Hampton Roads; (xviii) public safety communications professionals, (xix) tourism (VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS); (xx) supporters of historic preservation programs in Fairfax County, (xxi) the 300th anniversary of Falls Church; and (xxii) the Natural Bridge of Virginia.

Patron - Clement

P HB1800

Eluding police. Changes the penalty for failing to stop, and eluding police, from a Class 4 misdemeanor to a Class 3 misdemeanor and for eluding police while endangering persons or the police vehicle from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony. The bill creates an affirmative defense to a charge of eluding police if the defendant reasonably believed his pursuer not to be a law-enforcement officer. The bill also provides for mandatory license suspension of 30 days for a misdemeanor and 90 days for driving more than 20 miles per hour over the speed limit.

Patron - McDonnell

P HB1812

DUI; additional alternative sanctions for habitual offenders. Makes third DUI offense within ten years a Class 6 felony, with fourth and subsequent offenses carrying a one-year mandatory minimum jail sentence. The bill repeals the determination and adjudication provisions of the Habitual Offender Act but retains restoration provisions. Adds indefinite period license revocation language to §§ 18.2-36.1 and 18.2-51.4, governing involuntary manslaughter and maiming resulting from a DUI. The bill provides for petition for a restricted license after expiration of three years of the revocation and for a petition for full reinstatement after five years. The offender is subject to felony punishment if he drives during the revocation period. The bill also provides for participation in alternative intermediate sanctions in lieu of incarceration for a second or third DUI or DUI maiming offense. Additionally, it requires drivers convicted of a second offense of driving on a suspended operators license under § 46.2-301 to report to a Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program for an intervention. This bill is identical to SB 848.

Patron - Moran

P HB1832

Vehicle amber warning lights. Authorizes vehicles used for remote radio and TV broadcasts to be equipped with amber warning lights, provided the lights are not lit when the vehicles are in motion.

Patron - Phillips

P HB1848

Parking for persons with disabilities. Allows persons to whom "handicapped parking" placards are issued to cover their name, as it appears on the placard, with removable tape.

Patron - Watts

P HB1885

DMV agencies. Increases the compensation fixed for DMV agencies.

Patron - Murphy

P HB1917

Motor vehicle for TANF recipients. Exempts the State Department of Social Services and local departments of social services from (i) licensure as motor vehicle dealers, (ii) the state public procurement act, and (iii) several statutes governing disposal of surplus state property when these agencies acquire used motor vehicles from the state motor pool and transfer them to TANF recipients.

Patron - Phillips

P HB1960

Laser speed determination devices. Allows the town of Vienna to use laser speed determination devices to enforce speed limits.

Patron - Devolites

P HB1971

Window films. Prohibits (i) operating motor vehicles whose windshields or windows have films or applications that produce holographic or prism effects and (ii) affixing such applications to motor vehicle windshields or windows.

Patron - Abbitt

P HB1993

Salvage dealers. Allows DMV Commissioner to offer multi-year licensure option, with fees prorated on a per-year basis.

Patron - Rollison

P HB2016

Manufactured homes. Changes the term "mobile home" to "manufactured home" throughout the Code. There is also a technical amendment.

Patron - Scott

P HB2032

Laser speed determination devices. Allows any locality in Planning District No. 8 (Northern Virginia) to use laser speed determination devices.

Patron - Moran

P HB2039

Speed limit in residence district. Provides for a mandatory, minimum fine of $100 for going 20 mph or more in excess of the speed limit in a residential area in the Town of Vienna where the speed limit is 30 mph or less.

Patron - Devolites

P HB2048

Passing and overtaking horses and horse-drawn vehicles. Requires that ridden horses and horse-drawn vehicles be overtaken and passed in the same manner as bicycles, rather than in the manner of motor vehicles. When the Senate amended the bill by adding the word "horse" on line 13, corresponding changes should have been, but were not, made to the title of the bill. Proposed amendments to remedy this defect are attached.

Patron - Weatherholtz

P HB2050

Towing. Amends the law on local regulation of towing clearly to distinguish requests for towing made by police at the request of the owner or operator of a disabled vehicle from other police-requested towing.

Patron - Weatherholtz

P HB2054

Executive sedan carriers and limousine carriers. Authorizes enforcement by local authorities of state laws and DMV regulations pertaining to executive sedan carriers and limousine carriers; provides that violations of those laws and regulations are punishable as Class 3 misdemeanors (fine up to $500); requires executive sedan carriers and limousine carriers to have established places of business that meet certain specifically listed requirements; and requires that executive sedan carriers and limousine carriers conduct their operations in a specific manner.

Patron - Jones, J.C.

P HB2157

Laser speed determination devices. Allows Henrico County to use laser speed determination devices to enforce speed limits.

Patron - Grayson

P HB2209

Trucks hauling gravel, sand, or crushed stone. Applies, until July 1, 2001, coal truck weight limits to certain trucks hauling gravel, sand, or crushed stone in counties that may impose a coal severance tax.

Patron - Stump

P HB2294

Habitual offender license reissuance. Ensures that no credit is given to an habitual offender receiving credit for a prior suspension period when calculating the three- or five-year suspension period if the prior suspension period followed a second DUI. The bill also removes the optional court-ordered VASAP assessment prior to a hearing for reissuance of a driver's license to an habitual offender. This change removes an internal conflict; the law already mandates assessment. There is an emergency clause.

Patron - Moran

P HB2336

Golf carts. Allows over-the-road operation of unregistered golf carts by certain Goochland County employees on official business at Goochland Courthouse.

Patron - Dickinson

P HB2348

License plates. Prohibits display on any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer of any license plate or decal currently issued for another vehicle.

Patron - Griffith

P HB2350

"Out of service" inspections. Adds Roanoke County to the list of localities whose specially trained law-enforcement officers are authorized to perform "out-of-service" vehicle inspections.

Patron - Griffith

P HB2378

Parking violation notices. Reduces from one-half inch to 14-point type the minimum size of the legend "Law-Enforcement Notice" on envelopes used to provide notice of local parking violations. This bill is a duplicate of SB 1117.

Patron - Blevins

P HB2434

Three for life. Increases from two dollars to three dollars the annual surcharge placed on certain motor vehicle registrations to support emergency medical services. Provides that 33 1/3 percent of funds collected shall be distributed in the following manner: 50 percent is credited to the Rescue Squad Assistance Fund and 50 percent is returned to the localities, provided there is no local reduction in funding.

Patron - Armstrong

P HB2483

Driver's licenses and learner's permits; parental waivers. Provides that parents waiving the requirement that their child be in academic good standing and regularly attending school to obtain a driver's license or learner's permit indicate their authorization on forms provided by and at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Patron - Tata

P HB2499

Driver training schools. Provides for imposition of limitations on school operations for relatively minor violations and a mechanism for immediate suspension of licenses when licensee conduct presents a danger to the public health, safety, or welfare.

Patron - Brink

P HB2516

Motor vehicle dealers, T&M vehicle dealers, trailer dealers, and motorcycle dealers. Authorizes revocation or suspension of licenses of dealers who fail or refuse to pay certain civil penalties imposed by the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board or the DMV Commissioner.

Patron - Wardrup

P HB2575

Driver's licenses. Requires that the evidence of successful completion of a driver's education course be signed by the minor's parent or guardian before that evidence, together with the minor's learner's permit, can constitute a temporary driver's license.

Patron - Baskerville

P HB2656

Registration of volunteer rescue squad and volunteer fire department vehicles. Provides for permanent registration, free of charge, for vehicles owned by volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads and used by them exclusively for rescue, lifesaving, and firefighting purposes. This replaces a system of exemption from registration for these vehicles.

Patron - Katzen

P HB2670

Organ donor program. Requires DMV, in coordination with the Virginia Transplant Council, to prepare a brochure on the organ donor program and mail a copy along with every driver's license renewal notice or application.

Patron - O'Brien

P HB2672

Information regarding driver education instructors. Requires each local school division and private school providing a driver education program approved by the Department of Education to provide to DMV the name and driver's license number of all persons providing instruction in driver education for that school division or private school. Whenever a driver's license of the instructor is suspended or revoked, or the instructor is convicted in any court of reckless driving or driving while intoxicated, the Department shall notify the local school division or private school of the name and driver's license number of the driver involved. When the driving record of a driver education instructor accumulates more than six demerit points based on convictions occurring in any calendar year, DMV is to notify the relevant local school division or private school of the name and driver's license number of the driver. Safe driving points shall not be used to reduce the six demerit points. No driver education program in a private school or public school division may retain its approval by the Department unless such instructor is removed from providing behind-the-wheel driver education instruction in the private school or public school division for a period of 24 months.

Patron - O'Brien

P HB2696

Driver training courses. Requires the Board of Education to approve correspondence courses for the classroom training component of driver education courses. Such courses must be consistent in quality with instructional programs developed by the Board for classroom training in the public schools. Students completing the correspondence course for classroom training, and who are eligible to take behind-the-wheel driver training,, may do so at a public school upon payment of the required fee, if the school division offers behind-the-wheel driver training and space is available, or from a commercial driver training school licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Local school divisions are not required, under this law, to provide behind-the-wheel driver training to non-public school students.

Patron - Katzen

P HB2758

Motorcycles. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board, the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, and the Virginia Department of Transportation shall not restrict access of motorcycles to transportation facilities.

Patron - Davis

P SB325

Driver's licenses. Provides for refusal to renew or reissue driver's licenses of persons for whom the Department of Social Services could not serve notices of intent to suspend such driver's licenses. The bill contains two minor errors. Proposed amendments are enclosed to correct them.

Patron - Woods

P SB720

Special license plates. Authorizes display, on vehicles required to display official government-use only license plates, a device identifying those vehicles that use clean special fuels, so that those vehicles can enjoy the exceptional use of HOV lanes granted to vehicles displaying clean special fuel license plates; authorizes persons honorably discharged after at least six months of active duty service with the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps to be issued special license plates currently authorized for issuance only to persons on active duty with or retired from those armed services. This bill also authorizes issuance of town logo special license plates; special license plate for members of the Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES), members of the Virginia State Police Alumni, Inc., and supporters of Operation Wildflower; and Oceana Naval Air Station, Boy Scouts of America, and Virginia lighthouses special license plates.

Patron - Edwards

P SB738

Local regulation of sidewalks. Allows a locality by ordinance to prohibit the use of skateboards and roller skates on certain sidewalks. The words "punishable by" appear to have been inadvertently omitted from the language of the floor amendment that added lines 22 and 23 of the enrolled bill. A draft amendment to remedy this error is attached.

Patron - Potts

P SB740

Amber warning lights. Allows vehicles used to lead or escort bicycle races to be equipped with amber warning lights.

Patron - Couric

P SB754

Laser speed determination devices. Allows the town of Vienna to use laser speed determination devices to enforce speed limits.

Patron - Howell

P SB764

Laser speed determination devices. Allows Loudoun county and towns within its boundaries to use laser speed determination devices to enforce speed limits.

Patron - Mims

P SB775

"Photo-red" enforcement of traffic light signals. Includes leased and rented vehicles in scope of "photo-red" traffic light signal enforcement programs.

Patron - Barry

P SB799

Speed limits. Provides for a maximum speed limit of 65 mph on Virginia Route 288.

Patron - Watkins

P SB857

Three for life. Increases to $3 (from the current $2) the amount of the annual surcharge placed on certain motor vehicle registrations to support of emergency medical services.

Patron - Reynolds

P SB921

Driver's licenses; persons under 18. Provides that only custodial parents have the ability to request that DMV cancel their child's driver's license.

Patron - Mims

P SB939

Laser speed determination devices. Allows localities in Planning District No. 8 to use laser speed determination devices.

Patron - Whipple

P SB961

Vehicular warning lights. Allows vehicles used on or after January 1, 2000, to lead or provide escorts for funeral processions to use either amber warning lights or purple warning lights, but not both at the same time.

Patron - Trumbo

P SB1117

Patron - Forbes

P SB1193

Antique motor vehicles. Increases the fee for registration of a motor vehicle as an antique motor vehicle from $5 to $10; authorizes, for certain vehicles, Virginia license plates with metal tabs issued for the same year as the model year of the vehicle; provides additional detail as to which antique vehicles may display only one license plate and which may display, instead of "antique vehicle" license plate, license plates issued for the same year as the model year of the vehicle; and provides additional limitations on "general transportation" use of vehicles registered as antique motor vehicles.

Patron - Trumbo

F Failed

F HB1436

Safety belts in school buses. Requires school buses purchased by or for use by any school or school division on or after January 1, 2001, to be equipped with safety belts or safety belts and shoulder harnesses of types approved by the Superintendent of State Police. The Board of Education must adopt policies, guidelines, and regulations to ensure that all passengers, including the driver, wear these belts and/or harnesses whenever the bus is in motion.

Patron - Deeds

F HB1438

Special license plates; Natural Bridge of Virginia. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates celebrating the Natural Bridge of Virginia. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Wilkins

F HB1440

Special license plates; honorably discharged members of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps. Authorizes persons honorably discharged from the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps to be issued special license plates currently authorized for issuance only to persons on active duty with or retired from those armed services. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Black

F HB1447

Traffic signs; slow traffic. Requires VDOT to install on all public highways in Virginia with two or more travel lanes in each direction, signs bearing the legend: SLOW TRAFFIC KEEP RIGHT.

Patron - Marshall

F HB1457

Special license plates; National Society of Black Engineers. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to members of the National Society of Black Engineers. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Van Yahres

F HB1464

Special license plates; supporters of certain programs for pregnant women. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: FRIEND OF ADOPTION. The annual fee for such plates shall be $25 in addition to the prescribed fee for state license plates. For each such $25 fee collected in excess of 1,000 registrations, $15 shall be paid into the state treasury and distributed by the State Department of Social Services in the form of grants to not-for-profit agencies that provide counseling and other services to pregnant women who are committed to placing their children for adoption.

Patron - Black

F HB1469

Special license plates; recipients of the Bronze Star with a "V" for valor. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to recipients of the Bronze Star with a "V" for valor under the same conditions as Bronze Star and Silver Star recipients. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Ingram

F HB1483

Special license plates; supporters of public schools. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: HELPING SCHOOLS. The annual fee for such plates shall be $25 in addition to the prescribed fee for state license plates. For each such $25 fee collected in excess of 1,000 registrations, $15 shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to a special nonreverting fund known as the Helping Schools Fund, established within the Department of Accounts. These funds shall be paid annually to the local school division designated by the applicant (or, if the applicant makes no designation, to the school division of the locality in which the vehicle is registered) and used to purchase classroom supplies and equipment. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Morgan

F HB1508

Parking for persons with disabilities. Eliminates the requirement that certain placards used to identify vehicles that may lawfully park in spaces reserved for use by persons with disabilities include the name, age, and sex of the person to whom they are issued.

Patron - Puller

F HB1524

Loss of operator's license for drug offense. Allows the court, in those cases where the court determines there are compelling circumstances warranting an exception, to refuse to impose the currently established sanction of six months' loss of driving privilege or restricted license. Currently an individual who is so charged and convicted or whose disposition is deferred must either lose his license outright or be issued a restricted license to operate a motor vehicle for six months.

Patron - Diamonstein

F HB1525

Special license plates; supporters of greyhound adoption programs. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to supporters of greyhound adoption programs. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Diamonstein

F HB1535

Special license plates; members of the Virginia State Police Alumni, Inc. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to members of the Virginia State Police Alumni, Inc. These plates would be subject to a one-time $10 surcharge, but would not be subject to requirements contained in § 46.2-725 as to minimum number of orders and minimum number of active sets of plates. This bill has been incorporated HB 1797.

Patron - Orrock

F HB1551

Driver records; fees. Allows individuals with five safe driving points to obtain copies of their records without paying a fee.

Patron - Griffith

F HB1578

Disregarding signal by law-enforcement officer to stop; eluding police; penalties. Raises the penalties for a driver's failure to stop his motor vehicle from a Class 4 to a Class 1 misdemeanor; for eluding from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony; and for causing serious bodily injury while eluding from a Class 6 to a Class 5 felony. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1800.

Patron - Davies

F HB1594

Buses. Authorizes school boards to require safety inspections of school buses chartered to transport public school children. These inspections shall be in addition to the "standard" annual safety inspections required under Article 21 of Chapter 10 of Title 46.2.

Patron - Albo

F HB1619

Motor vehicle titles. Requires that titles of repaired vehicles and salvage vehicles be permanently branded as such and prohibits sale of a repaired or rebuilt vehicle without providing written notice to the buyer that the vehicle is a repaired or rebuilt vehicle.

Patron - Robinson

F HB1638

Special license plates; Eagle Scouts. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to Eagle Scouts. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Diamonstein

F HB1658

DMV records. Provides for disclosure of certain vehicle owner data, free of charge, by DMV to school principals.

Patron - Marshall

F HB1683

Special license plates; supporters of the Chincoteague Pony Association. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to supporters of the Chincoteague Pony Association. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Bloxom

F HB1766

Special license plates; 173rd Airborne Brigade. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to members and former members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Parrish

F HB1770

Nighttime driving restriction. Prohibits persons under age 18 from operating a motor vehicle between the hours of midnight and 5:00 a.m. unless they are driving to or from work or a school-sponsored activity, are driving when accompanied by a parent or spouse, or are driving in the case of an emergency.

Patron - Parrish

F HB1798

"Photo-red" enforcement of traffic light signals. Adds the City of Danville to the list of localities authorized to establish "photo-red" traffic light signal enforcement programs and requires that violation notices be accompanied by explanation of the "exculpatory affidavit" process.

Patron - Clement

F HB1869

Special license plates; collectors of pig memorabilia. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to collectors of pig memorabilia. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - McQuigg

F HB1870

Photo-red program. Allows Manassas, Manassas Park, and Prince William County to establish photo-monitoring programs to enforce traffic light signals and requires that violation notices be accompanied by explanation of the "exculpatory affidavit" process.

Patron - McQuigg

F HB1871

Red light detectors. Allows localities, at their expense, to install red light detectors (devices that allows observers not in direct line-of-sight with traffic light signals to know when the red signal is being displayed) and use them in enforcing traffic light signals.

Patron - McQuigg

F HB1883

Passing on highways. Prohibits, except for specific situations, use of left-most lane on limited access highways for anything but passing other vehicles going in the same direction.

Patron - Johnson

F HB1909

Safety belts in school buses. Requires school buses purchased by or for use by any school or school division on or after January 1, 2000, to be equipped with safety belts or safety belts and shoulder harnesses of types approved by the Superintendent of State Police. The Board of Education must adopt policies, guidelines, and regulations to ensure that all passengers, including the driver, wear these belts and/or harnesses whenever the bus is in motion.

Patron - Spruill

F HB1952

Special license plates; survivors of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir; persons awarded the Navy Cross, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Air Force Cross, or the Distinguished Flying Cross. Replaces an annual $10 surcharge for issuance of these plates with a one-time $10 surcharge. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Jones, S.C.

F HB1955

Motor vehicle emissions inspections. Makes only vehicles manufactured for the present and 29 immediately preceding model years (instead of those of manufactured for the 1968 and subsequent model years) subject to emissions inspections.

Patron - Day

F HB1989

Suspension of driver's licenses. Allows 14 (instead of present 10) days for persons convicted in absentia of traffic offenses to pay fines and court costs before their driver's licenses are suspended.

Patron - Jackson

F HB2018

Special license plates; public safety communications professionals. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to public safety communications professionals. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Rollison

F HB2019

Special license plates; Virginia is for lovers. Authorizes issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Rollison

F HB2040

Special license plates; Internet commerce industry. Authorizes issuance of special license plates designed to represent the Internet commerce industry. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Devolites

F HB2042

Special license plates; local government logos. Authorizes issuance of special license plates displaying the logo of the Town of Vienna. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Devolites

F HB2094

Motor vehicle emissions inspections. Makes only vehicles manufactured for the present and 24 immediately preceding model years (instead of those of manufactured for the 1968 and subsequent model years) subject to emissions inspections.

Patron - Cranwell

F HB2102

Special license plates; members of the Order of AHEPA. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to members of the Order of AHEPA. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Ingram

F HB2109

Special license plates; 173rd Airborne Brigade. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to members and former members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade; repeals authority to issue special license plates to members of operational military units.

Patron - Ware

F HB2120

Patron - Dillard

F HB2121

Motor vehicle safety inspections. Eliminates requirement that vehicles with missing or inoperable pollution control equipment be denied safety inspection approval stickers.

Patron - Dillard

F HB2140

Special license plates commemorating the history of Fairfax County. Authorizes issuance of special license plates commemorating the history of Fairfax County. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Scott

F HB2142

"Photo-red" enforcement of traffic light signals. Allows DMV to release vehicle owner data to agents or employees of localities operating "photo-red" programs for use in connection with those programs; eliminates the requirement that certificates of information obtained by "photo-red" monitoring equipment be sworn to or affirmed by employees of the locality operating the program; and increases the maximum monetary penalty for "photo-red" violations from $50 to $100.

Patron - Moran

F HB2163

Acquisition of vehicle by dealers. Requires motor vehicle dealers, T&M vehicle dealers, trailer dealers, and motorcycle dealers to notify the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) when they acquire vehicles by simple purchase or trade-in and requires DMV to pass this information on the local tax-assessing officials in the locality where the vehicle had been principally garaged or parked prior to its sale or trade-in.

Patron - Marshall

F HB2286

Use of interstate highways by commercial vehicles. Provides additional restriction on operation of commercial vehicles (other than buses or school buses) on interstate highways with more than two lanes in each direction by confining their operation in the eighth planning district to the two right-most lanes of such highways, regardless of the posted speed limit.

Patron - Marshall

F HB2338

Special license plates; members of the Navy League of the United States. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to members of the Navy League of the United States. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Dickinson

F HB2347

Overweight vehicles. Allows counties to adopt ordinances, generally parallel to state statutes, providing the imposition and collection of liquidated damages for operation of overweight vehicles.

Patron - Griffith

F HB2351

Motor vehicle accident judgments; satisfaction of judgment; conviction of DUI. Provides that no person who is convicted of driving under the influence or refusing to take a breath test in connection with an incident in which a judgment arises may reacquire his suspended driver's license until the judgment from the incident is paid in full.

Patron - Griffith

F HB2388

Speed limits. Provides for a 45 mph speed limit on paved state secondary roads whose pavement is no more than 18 feet wide.

Patron - Armstrong

F HB2417

Motor vehicles registration, titles, and certificates of ownership. Provides that failure to apply for motor vehicle registration and a certificate of title or a certificate of ownership as required by law constitutes a Class 4 misdemeanor.

Patron - Grayson

F HB2423

Special license plates; Hampton Roads. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: HAMPTON ROADS. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Robinson

F HB2424

Patron - Robinson

F HB2440

Eluding police. Provides for a mandatory minimum term of confinement of 10 days, two days of which shall not be suspended, and a mandatory minimum fine of $200 for eluding police.

Patron - Cantor

F HB2473

Traffic lights; enforcement. Authorizes law-enforcement officers who have not observed a traffic light violation to detain a violator, provided that another law-enforcement officer who has observed the violation immediately sends a radio message to the detaining officer positively identifying the vehicle the violator was driving.

Patron - Orrock

F HB2488

Speed limits. Provides that the maximum speed limit shall be 65 mph for commercial vehicles and 70 mph for all other vehicles on interstate highways, 65 mph on other limited access highways with divided roadways, 60 miles per hour on nonlimited access highways with 4 or more lanes, and 55 mph on all other state primary highways and requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to solicit and consider advice and comments from affected local governing bodies before increasing or decreasing speed limits.

Patron - Guest

F HB2512

Smoking. Prohibits smoking in ambulances and life-saving and rescue vehicles. Violations are punishable by civil penalties of $15, to be paid into the Literary Fund.

Patron - Bloxom

F HB2546

Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Requires that the Mass Transit Fund cover at least 65 percent of the local or nonfederal share of capital project costs for public transportation and ridesharing equipment, facilities, and associated costs.

Patron - Crittenden

F HB2660

Special license plates; horse enthusiasts. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to horse enthusiasts. This bill has been incorporated into HB 1797.

Patron - Katzen

F HB2663

Moving motor vehicles from highways. Clarifies that localities have authority to move vehicles left on a public highway, whether attended or unattended, if they constitute a traffic hazard.

Patron - O'Brien

F HB2703

Uninsured motor vehicles. Provides that any person who knowingly operates an uninsured motor vehicle owned by him without having paid the applicable fee for registering an uninsured vehicle thereby waives his right to recover for noneconomic loss incurred by him or his estate if he is injured or killed in crash with another vehicle that is insured or has properly proved financial responsibility.

Patron - Drake

F SB719

Special license plates; honorably discharged members of the United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps. Authorizes persons honorably discharged after at least six months of active duty service with the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps to be issued special license plates currently authorized for issuance only to persons on active duty with or retired from those armed services. This bill has been incorporated into SB 720.

Patron - Barry

F SB752

Speed limit in residence district. Provides for a mandatory, minimum fine of $100 for going 20 mph or more in excess of the speed limit in a residential area where the speed limit is 30 mph or less.

Patron - Howell

F SB753

Special license plates; local government logos. Authorizes issuance of special license plates displaying the logos of towns. This bill has been incorporated into SB 720.

Patron - Howell

F SB798

Special license plates for members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to members and former members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

Patron - Watkins

F SB804

Patron - Schrock

F SB809

Eluding police. Raises the penalty for eluding police from a Class 1 misdemeanor to a Class 6 felony, and for eluding police and causing serious bodily injury from a Class 6 felony to a Class 5 felony.

Patron - Schrock

F SB812

Special license plates; Oceana Naval Air Station. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: Oceana Naval Air Station. This bill has been incorporated into SB 720.

Patron - Schrock

F SB871

Special license plates; Virginia lighthouses. Authorizes issuance of special license plates celebrating Virginia lighthouses. This bill has been incorporated into SB 720.

Patron - Woods

F SB960

Motor vehicle dealers. Exempts single-employee dealerships from minimum business hours requirements.

Patron - Trumbo

F SB993

Special license plates; supporters of Operation Wildflower. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to supporters of Operation Wildflower. The annual fee for such plates shall be $25 in addition to the prescribed fee for state license plates. For each such $25 fee collected in excess of 1,000 registrations, $15 shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to a special nonreverting fund known as the Operation Wildflower Fund, established within the Department of Accounts. These funds shall be paid annually to the Virginia Department of Transportation and used to support its Operation Wildflower program. This bill has been incorporated into SB 720.

Patron - Stosch

F SB1003

Patron - Ticer

F SB1012

Patron - Howell

F SB1031

Special license plates: Boy Scouts of America. Authorizes issuance of special license plates for supporters of the Boy Scouts of America. This bill has been incorporated into SB 720.

Patron - Williams

F SB1091

"Photo-red" enforcement of traffic light signals. Allows DMV to release vehicle owner data to agents or employees of localities operating "photo-red" programs for use in connection with those programs and eliminates the requirement that certificates of information obtained by "photo-red" monitoring equipment be sworn to or affirmed by employees of the locality operating the program.

Patron - Ticer

F SB1093

Photo-red programs. Includes enforcement of all red traffic light signals (including right and left turns on red) in photo-red programs; includes traffic light violations by leased vehicles within the scope of photo-red programs; applies the program also to leased vehicles; provides for compensation for local officials who collect and account for payments of penalties; and allows localities to adopt local ordinances paralleling the provisions of the state photo-red law.

Patron - Ticer

F SB1100

Speed limits. Provides for a 45 mph speed limit on paved state secondary roads whose pavement is no more than 18 feet wide.

Patron - Reynolds

F SB1103

"Photo-red" traffic light programs. Allows Charlottesville, Manassas, Manassas Park, Albemarle County, and Prince William County to establish "photo-red" traffic light signal enforcement programs.

Patron - Colgan

F SB1228

Habitual offender restricted driving privilege. Clarifies that the court shall require that an habitual offender driving with a restricted license be monitored by the local Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program during the term of the restricted license to ensure the person's compliance with the terms of the restrictions imposed by the court.

Patron - Marsh

F SB1311

Operation of unsafe vehicles. Prohibits operation of any motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer with defective brakes, tires, wheels, or steering mechanism that is likely to cause an accident. Violations discovered through "out-of-service" inspections are to be punished by a one-year driver's license suspension and/or a fine up to $2,500 for a first offense, a fine up to $5,000 for a second or subsequent offense.

Patron - Potts

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