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Motor Vehicles

P Passed

P HB10

Special license plates. Repeals authority for issuance of certain special license plates as to which fewer than 350 applications have been received within the three-year period specified in § 46.2-725. The affected license plates are those for former members of the U. S. Army, Navy, and Air Force; members of the First Marine Division Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars; the Virginia Future Farmers of America Association, the Communications Workers of America, and the Virginia Sheriffs' Association; supporters of the American Red Cross; presidents of institutions of higher learning; supporters of organ transplant programs, Virginia state parks, the U. S. Olympic Committee, and the 4-H Foundation; the Virginia Apple Blossom Festival; and those celebrating Native American heritage.

Patron - Landes

P HB19

Restoration of privilege after driving while license revoked or suspended for failure to pay uninsured motorist fee. Provides that an habitual offender may immediately petition for the reinstatement of his driving privilege upon the payment of an uninsured motorist fee (or proof of insurance) if his status as an habitual offender results from driving while his license was suspended for failure to have paid the fee (or insured his car).

Patron - Armstrong

P HB27

Special license plates; Special Forces Association. Authorizes issuance of special license plates for members of the Special Forces Association Association and the Veterans of the Battle of Iwo Jima organization.

Patron - Callahan

P HB39

Special license plates; NARFE members. Authorizes issuance of special license plates for members of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees.

Patron - Dickinson

P HB56

License plates. Explicitly prohibits covering vehicle license plates with colored glass, colored plastic, or any other type of covering that alters or obscures the letters and numbers on or color of the license plates.

Patron - Cranwell

P HB57

Vehicle registration cards; disabled owners. Provides that whenever disabled parking license plates or DV disabled parking license plates are issued for a vehicle registered in the name of more than one owner, the registration card for that vehicle must include a notation indicating which owner or owners of the vehicle is disabled. Vehicles owned by organizations that transport disabled persons are exempt.

Patron - Cranwell

P HB69

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

Patron - Callahan

P HB126

Special license plates; Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the seal of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs.

Patron - Cantor

P HB164

Motor vehicles; use of speed determination devices in aircraft. Allows State Police to use microcomputer devices in fixed-wing and/or rotary-wing aircraft to enforce speed limits. The bill also contains editorial changes and corrections.

Patron - Shuler

P HB261

Special license plates; local government attorneys. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for local government attorneys.

Patron - Broman

P HB355

Suspended and revoked driver's licenses; penalties. Provides for increased penalties for driving while a driver's license is suspended including minimum, mandatory terms for multiple offenses. The bill clarifies unclear language concerning the method of tallying multiple convictions and corrects omissions in identifying eligible convictions for enhanced DUI punishment. The bill also creates a minimum ten-day punishment for the third offense of driving on a suspended or revoked license or driving while declared a habitual offender and for certain other multiple offenses. The bill also imposes a mandatory three-year suspension for driving while intoxicated if the driver was at the time driving while his license was under suspension for reckless driving. Finally, the bill provides for the issuance of a restricted permit to a person who would otherwise have his license suspended for failure to pay fines and costs. This bill is identical to SB 183.

Patron - Moran

P HB356

Photo red programs. Requires that images recorded of a vehicle operated in violation of traffic light signals shall include at least one image of the vehicle before it illegally entered the intersection, and at least one image of the vehicle after it illegally entered the intersection.

Patron - Moran

P HB370

Motor vehicles; license fees. Permits localities to charge an additional license fee of no more than one dollar on motor vehicles. The funds from such fees must be paid into the Volunteer Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Pension Fund ("Fund"). The legislation clarifies that contributions to the Fund by a locality must be made on behalf of all members of the Fund who are volunteers for fire departments or rescue squads within the jurisdiction of the locality. Similarly, the legislation clarifies that contributions to the Fund by a fire department or rescue squad must be made on behalf of all members of the Fund within the particular fire department or rescue squad. The legislation is effective on the last to occur of (i) July 1, 2000, or (ii) the first day of the third month following the date that the Virginia Retirement System obtains a ruling of the Internal Revenue Service that affirmatively states that the defined contribution plan established by Chapter 12 (§ 51.1-1200 et seq.) of Title 51.1 (Pensions, Benefits, and Retirement) shall be treated as a qualified plan for federal income tax purposes.

Patron - Tate

P HB386

Driving while intoxicated; penalties. Makes numerous changes to the laws punishing drunk driving. Among the major changes, the bill amends the mandatory, minimum period of confinement for a second DUI offense within five years from 48 hours to five days and sets forth a mandatory, minimum period of confinement of 10 days upon conviction for a third offense within 10 years and of 30 days upon conviction for a third offense within five years. The bill requires a six-month ignition interlock period. The bill also allows a Virginia Alcohol Safety Action Program (VASAP) evaluation to determine whether a person convicted of DUI is amenable to treatment and, therefore, eligible for a restricted license while in a VASAP program. Anyone convicted of a second offense within five years is ineligible for a restricted license for the first year following the second conviction and is required to use an ignition interlock for six months at the end of the restriction period. Identical to SB 149.

Patron - McDonnell

P HB396

Special license plates; supporters of the Monitor-Merrimac Foundation. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to supporters of the Monitor-Merrimac Foundation. 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 annually to the Mariner's Museum to further the construction of the U.S.S. Monitor Center.

Patron - Joannou

P HB429

Special license plates; supporters of the Motorcycle Rider Safety Training Program. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: SHARE THE ROAD. 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 the Motorcycle Rider Safety Training Program Fund created pursuant to § 46.2-1191.

Patron - Reid

P HB432

Motorcycles; auxiliary brake lights. Allows motorcycles to be equipped with auxiliary brake lights, subject to approval and regulation by the Superintendent of State Police. This bill is a duplicate of SB 247.

Patron - Nixon

P HB436

Motor vehicle, T&M vehicle, trailer, and motorcycle dealers; buyer's order forms. Requires that dealers need file a copy of the buyer order form on which their processing fee is stated only with original license applications, and not (as provided in current law) with license renewal applications as well.

Patron - Wardrup

P HB441

Antique motor vehicle. Allows motor vehicles registered as antique motor vehicles to be used for general transportation purposes if certain conditions are met: (i) the physical condition of the license plates has been inspected and approved by the Department; (ii) the license plates are registered to the specific vehicle by the Department; (iii) the owner of the vehicle periodically registers the vehicle with the Department and pays a registration fee for the vehicle equal to that which would be charged to obtain regular state license plates for that vehicle; (iv) the vehicle passes a periodic safety inspection; (v) the vehicle displays current decals attached to the license plate, issued by the Department, indicating the valid registration period for the vehicle; and (vi) when applicable, the vehicle meets vehicle emissions inspection requirement.

Patron - Larrabee

P HB487

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

P HB501

Warning lights on vehicles. Allows vehicles used by municipal safety officers in the performance of their official duties to be equipped with flashing amber warning lights. This bill duplicates a portion of SB 309.

Patron - Armstrong

P HB514

Special license plates; 25th anniversary of Poquoson. Authorizes issuance of special license plates commemorating the 25th anniversary of Poquoson.

Patron - Morgan

P HB533

Disregarding signal by law-enforcement officer to stop; eluding police; penalties. Provides for an affirmative defense to a felony charge of eluding police. The defense -- a showing by the defendant that he reasonably believed he was being pursued by a person other than a law-enforcement officer -- is currently only available for a misdemeanor charge.

Patron - Armstrong

P HB544

Commercial vehicles. Prohibits operation of commercial vehicles (other than buses and school buses) on the left-most lane of interstate highways with speed limits of at least 65 mph and more than two lanes in each direction, except when preparing to exit a highway via a left exit or when being used to perform maintenance or construction work. This bill applies the same limitation to similar interstate highways within the 8th Planning District, regardless of the speed limit.

Patron - Marshall

P HB550

Salvage vehicle; release of motor vehicle information. Allows DMV to release vehicle data to prospective buyers of the vehicle. This bill is the same as HB 777.

Patron - Phillips

P HB564

Prohibiting license reinstatement until successful completion of ASAP. Provides that unless the court waives the requirement for completion of the program for good cause shown DMV shall not return a suspended license to any person who has not completed ASAP and who was ordered to complete it pursuant to a DUI conviction. Any person who drives in violation of this provision is guilty of driving without a license (Class 2 misdemeanor). Identical to SB 292.

Patron - Moran

P HB566

Laser speed determination devices. Allows Charlottesville, Albemarle County and Stafford County to use laser speed determination devices.

Patron - Van Yahres

P HB581

County improvements to primary and secondary highways. Allows any county to use its general revenues, revenues derived from the sale of bonds, or federal revenue sharing funds to improve primary or secondary highways. Present law limits this ability to Albemarle, Arlington, Augusta, Chesterfield, Culpeper, Fairfax, Frederick, Hanover, Henrico, James City, Loudoun, Prince William, Roanoke, Rockingham, Spotsylvania, Stafford, and York Counties.

Patron - Scott

P HB626

Operation of emergency vehicles. Allows emergency vehicles to pass stopped or slow-moving vehicles to the left in no-passing zones and to pass by crossing highway centerlines. Any such maneuver would be subject to the same restrictions applicable to other "illegal" operations performed by emergency vehicles.

Patron - Reid

P HB627

Amber warning lights. Allows amber warning lights on fire apparatus, ambulances, and rescue and life-saving vehicles to be mounted at locations other than on the rear of the vehicles, provided the lights can be seen from behind the vehicle.

Patron - Reid

P HB640

Payments to DMV. Provides for use of "transaction receipts" as evidence of payments made to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for electronic transactions (such as Internet transactions) extending or renewing DMV-issued documents (such as vehicle registrations).

Patron - Rollison

P HB641

Salvage dealers. Limits to "major components" the parts of vehicle as to which salvage dealers must provide origin data upon request of law-enforcement officers. "Major component" is defined to include the front clip assembly, rear clip assembly, engine, transmission, airbags, door, and frame.

Patron - Rollison

P HB643

Special license plates; 250th anniversary of Dumfries. Authorizes issuance of special license plates commemorating the 250th anniversary of Dumfries.

Patron - Rollison

P HB658

License plates; reserved numbers/letters. Requires that license plates with reserved numbers/letters have at least one number or letter, and allows them to have as many as eight numbers/letters.

Patron - Marshall

P HB666

Special license plates; Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Authorizes issuance of special license plates celebrating the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

Patron - Tate

P HB674

Farm vehicles. Exempts from registration farm vehicles used to: (i) take another farm vehicle to or from a repair shop, (ii) dispose of farm rubbish, and (iii) obtain and transport seeds, fertilizers, chemicals, or animal feed. Trips by such unregistered vehicles are limited to 30 miles. The bill also allows over-the-road operation of farm machinery and tractors to and from repair shops for repairs.

Patron - Jones, S.C.

P HB676

Motor vehicle dealer records. Allows motor vehicle, T&M vehicle, trailer and motorcycle dealers to retain records either in their original form, or in film, magnetic, or optical media (including but not limited to microfilm, microfiche, or other electronic media).

Patron - Abbitt

P HB707

Permits for certain haulers and loaders. Eliminates the requirement that trip permits for oversize and overweight unladen, rubber-tired, self-propelled haulers and loaders be issued on an individual trip basis.

Patron - Stump

P HB722

Special license plates; supporters of the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation. 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 annually to the Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation and used to support statewide breast cancer educational programs.

Patron - Cox

P HB729

Motor vehicles; speed determination devices. Allows Roanoke County to use laser speed determination devices. The bill also contains editorial changes and corrections.

Patron - Griffith

P HB777

Release of information by DMV. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to release to prospective vehicle purchasers information on the vehicles they are thinking about buying. The Commissioner may charge a fee for this information. No release of personal information is allowed. This bill is the same as HB 550.

Patron - Rollison

P HB780

DMV fees. Increases the fee paid to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for service of process from $15 to $19, and for replacement or duplication of registration cards from no charge to two dollars; The bill also provides for a two dollars fee for replacement or duplication of International Registration Plan cab cards, registration cards for overload permits, and dealer registration cards.

Patron - Rollison

P HB860

Speed limits. Provides that the maximum speed limit on unpaved highways in Loudoun County will be 35 mph (instead of 55). This 35 mph speed limit can be increased or decreased by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner or other authority having jurisdiction over the affected highway, but the increased or decreased speed limit would have to be posted to be enforceable.

Patron - May

P HB932

Right-of-way of pedestrians. Allows Arlington County and Alexandria by ordinance to provide for the installation and maintenance of highway signs specifically requiring motorists to yield the right-of-way to pedestrians in marked crosswalks. Any operator of a motor vehicle who fails to yield the right-of-way as required by such signs will be guilty of a traffic infraction punishable by a fine of no less than $100 nor more than $500. The Commonwealth Transportation Board is to develop criteria for the design, location, and installation of such signs. The bill does not apply to any limited access highway.

Patron - Almand

P HB991

VASAP to monitor certain restricted licenses. Permits the court to require a drug offender or person in wrongful possession of alcohol who is issued a restricted driver's license be monitored by an alcohol safety action program during the period of license suspension. Any violation of the terms of the restricted license shall be reported forthwith to the court by such program.

Patron - Robinson

P HB999

Salvage vehicle; release of motor vehicle information. Removes automatic issuance of salvage certificate for unrecovered stolen vehicles, revises the definition of late model vehicle for salvage purposes, and provides for a prospective buyer vehicle history listing. This bill is a duplicate of SB 756 and a partial duplicate of HB 550 and HB 777.

Patron - Robinson

P HB1002

Vehicle registration; taxicabs. Allows the permanent registration of taxicabs.

Patron - Rollison

P HB1096

Local vehicle licenses and taxes. Allows localities to give a discount of 50 percent in fees charged for local licenses (windshield decals) for vehicles owned or leased by persons who are 65 years old or older. No such discount can be given to more than one vehicle owned or leased by the same person.

Patron - Dudley

P HB1181

Board of Transportation Safety. Increases the size of the Board of Transportation Safety to 12 members from its present 11.

Patron - Reid

P HB1186

Commercial vehicles; use of certain lanes on interstate highways prohibited. Exempts commercial vehicles on I-295 from commercial vehicle lane use limitations until July 1, 2002. This bill is a duplicate of SB 377.

Patron - Reid

P HB1256

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

Patron - Brink

P HB1299

Motor vehicle, T&M vehicle, trailer, and motorcycle dealers; consignment of vehicles by certain nonprofit organizations; fees. Provides a mechanism by which nonprofit organizations exempt from taxation under § 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code can obtain certificates allowing them to consign donated vehicles for sale by licensed motor vehicle, T&M vehicle, trailer, and motorcycle dealers. The dealers would have to provide affirmative notice to prospective buyers as to vehicles that did not pass safety inspections. Issuance of certificates to nonprofit organizations would be subject to a $25 annual fee. The bill also prohibits the nonprofit organizations from assigning values to the donated vehicles.

Patron - Wardrup

P HB1345

Overweight vehicles; concrete haulers. Provides for overweight permits for three-axle vehicles used to haul concrete up to 70,000 pounds gross weight and 50,000 pounds axle weight for a tri-axle grouping. The bill further provides for additional overweight extensions, for vehicles used to haul concrete, beyond the currently allowed five percent extension of single axle weights of 20,000 by authorizing weight extensions of up to five percent on the tandem axle weight limit, four-axle weight, the tri-axle grouping weight, and the three-axle weight provided for in § 46.2-1142. A sliding fee of from $35 to $200 would be charged for permits authorizing the additional axle weight extensions.

Patron - Drake

P HB1371

Special license plates; Class-J No. 611 steam locomotive. Authorizes issuance of special license plates commemorating the Class-J No. 611 steam locomotive.

Patron - Armstrong

P HB1375

One-trip vehicle transportation permits. Provides for issuance of one-trip vehicle transportation permits for vehicles to be purchased in another state by a Virginia resident and registered in Virginia. Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is to issue to the prospective purchaser one-trip permits that are not active and valid unless and until the purchaser receives an original bill of sale pertaining to the vehicle for which the permit was issued. Such permits are valid for three days and must be kept with the bill of sale in the vehicle until the vehicle is properly registered with DMV. The DMV Commissioner may charge a reasonable fee, adequate to recover the Department's costs, for the issuance of these permits, and may promulgate related regulations as he deems necessary or convenient.

Patron - Armstrong

P HB1421

Special license plates; Fraternal Order of Police associates and auxiliaries. Provides for a common design for special license plates for associate and auxiliary members of the Fraternal Order of Police.

Patron - Katzen

P HB1422

Special license plates; U.S. Submarine Force centennial. Authorizes issuance of special license plates celebrating the U.S. Submarine Force centennial. This authorization will expire on July 1, 2005.

Patron - Katzen

P HB1430

Driver's licenses. Requires that adult applicants for driver's licenses who have not previously held driver's licenses must show that they either have passed a driver's training class at a commercial driver training school or held a learner's permit for at least 30 days before first being given a behind-the-wheel test by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

Patron - O'Brien

P HB1435

Special license plates; Marriage Encounter Movement. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to supporters of the Marriage Encounter Movement.

Patron - O'Brien

P HB1436

Learner's permits. Prohibits holders of learner's permits from taking the DMV behind-the-wheel test for a driver's license more than three times in any three-month period.

Patron - O'Brien

P HB1457

Special license plates; registered nurses. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to registered nurses.

Patron - Spruill

P HB1465

Driver's license endorsements, classifications, and restrictions. Updates, consolidates, and revises the law on driver's license endorsements, classifications, and restrictions to remove obsolete references and clarify remaining provisions. This is a "housekeeping" bill.

Patron - Bolvin

P HB1466

Parking. Allows Fairfax County to regulate or prohibit parking of watercraft, boat trailers, motor homes, and camping trailers on any public highway in the county. This bill is the same as SB 474.

Patron - Bolvin

P HB1516

Special license plates; retired state employees. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to retired state employees.

Patron - Morgan

P HB1522

Emissions inspections. Exempts vehicles 25 years old or older from emissions inspections.

Patron - Dillard

P SB3

Driver's license. Adds § 18.2-272 (driving while the driver's license has been forfeited for a conviction under § 18.2-266) to those offenses for which a third offender has his license revoked. It appears that § 18.2-272 was inadvertently omitted.

Patron - Trumbo

P SB18

Special license plates; Corvette enthusiasts. Authorizes special license plates to Corvette enthusiasts.

Patron - Trumbo

P SB34

Special license plates; naval aviators. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for submarine service veterans, supporters of the American Red Cross, naval aviators, insurance agents, and supporters of the Family and Children's Trust Fund.

Patron - Schrock

P SB60

Incorporation of state motor vehicle statutes into local ordinances. Changes from "article" to "chapter" a reference intended to apply to Chapter 13 of Title 46.2, a chapter that is not subdivided into articles.

Patron - Trumbo

P SB122

Special license plates; POW/MIA logo. Authorizes issuance of special license plates bearing the POW/MIA logo.

Patron - Maxwell

P SB123

Special license plates; veterans of the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to veterans of the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign.

Patron - Maxwell

P SB183

Suspended and revoked driver's licenses; penalties. Provides for increased penalties for driving while a driver's license is suspended including minimum, mandatory terms for multiple offenses. The bill clarifies unclear language concerning the method of tallying multiple convictions and corrects omissions in identifying eligible convictions for enhanced DUI punishment. The bill also creates a minimum 10-day punishment for the third offense of driving on a suspended or revoked license or driving while declared a habitual offender and for certain other multiple offenses. The bill also imposes a mandatory three-year suspension for driving while intoxicated if the driver was at the time driving while his license was under suspension for reckless driving. Finally, the bill provides for the issuance of a restricted permit to a person who would otherwise have his license suspended for failure to pay fines and costs. Idential to HB 355.

Patron - Norment

P SB215

Welfare fraud investigations. Provides access for local department fraud prevention and investigation units to law-enforcement databases regarding motor vehicle registration and ownership to facilitate welfare fraud investigations.

Patron - Puckett

P SB227

Funeral processions; penalty. Prohibits impeding or disrupting escorted funeral processions. Violators would be subject to a fine up to $200 and four driver demerit points.

Patron - Potts

P SB247

Motorcycles; auxiliary brake lights. Allows motorcycles to be equipped with auxiliary brake lights, subject to approval and regulation by the Superintendent of State Police. This bill is the same as HB 432.

Patron - Houck

P SB292

Prohibiting license reinstatement until successful completion of ASAP. Provides that unless the court waives the requirement for completion of the program for good cause shown DMV shall not return a suspended license to any person who has not completed ASAP and who was ordered to complete it pursuant to a DUI conviction. Any person who drives in violation of this provision is guilty of driving without a license (Class 2 misdemeanor). Identical to HB 564.

Patron - Marsh

P SB309

Warning lights on vehicles. Allows vehicles used as pace cars, security vehicles, or fire-fighting vehicles used by speedways and motor vehicle race tracks and by municipal safety officers in the performance of their official duties to be equipped with flashing amber warning lights. This bill overlaps HB 501.

Patron - Reynolds

P SB360

Out-of-service inspections. Adds Bedford County to the list of localities whose specially trained law-enforcement officers are authorized to perform "out-of-service" inspections on trucks and tractor-trailer combinations.

Patron - Newman

P SB377

Commercial vehicles; use of certain lanes on interstate highways prohibited. Exempts commercial vehicles on I-295 from commercial vehicle lane use limitations until July 1, 2002. This is the same as HB 1186.

Patron - Stosch

P SB404

Motor vehicle security interests. Provides that an application for the registration or recordation of a security interest is deemed perfected on the date it is filed with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Patron - Trumbo

P SB407

Motor vehicle, T&M vehicle, trailer, and motorcycle dealers; hearings before DMV Commissioner. Provides that, in a decision rendered by the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles in disputes between motor vehicle, T&M vehicle, trailer, and motorcycle dealers and manufacturers, the Commissioner may assess a civil penalty up to $1,000 per day for noncompliance with his decision.

Patron - Williams

P SB413

Special license plates; supporters of public schools; fees. Authorizes use of the fees collected for "supporter of public schools" license plates to buy public school textbooks. Present law limits use of these funds to "classroom supplies and equipment."

Patron - Colgan

P SB414

"Photo red" traffic light signal enforcement program. Adds Albemarle, James City, Prince William, and York Counties and the cities of Charlottesville, Hampton, Manassas, Manassas Park, and Newport News to the list of localities authorized to have "photo red" traffic light signal enforcement programs.

Patron - Colgan

P SB461

Improper driving. Allows an attorney for the Commonwealth to reduce a reckless driving charge to improper driving at any time prior to the court's decision.

Patron - Mims

P SB474

Parking. Allows Fairfax County to regulate or prohibit parking of watercraft, boat trailers, motor homes, and camping trailers on any public highway in the county. This bill is the same as HB 1466.

Patron - Puller

P SB578

Vehicle safety inspections. Increases the maximum fee allowed to be charged for vehicle safety inspections as follows: (i) no more than $25 for each inspection of (a) any truck that has a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,000 pounds or more, (b) any tractor truck, or (c) any motor vehicle that is used in the transportation of passengers and has a seating capacity of more than 16 passengers; (ii) no more than $7 for each inspection of any motorcycle; and (iii) no more than $15 for each inspection of any other vehicle.

Patron - Barry

P SB649

VASAP for reckless driving. Allows VASAP as a condition of probation for any alcohol-related or drug-related reckless driving conviction.

Patron - Marsh

P SB751

Transportation of persons less than 16 years old. Prohibits, with exemptions for farming operations and organized parades, transportation of persons less than 16 years old in the beds of pickup trucks.

Patron - Norment

P SB756

Salvage vehicles; recovered stolen vehicles. Removes automatic issuance of salvage certificate for unrecovered stolen vehicles, revises the definition of late model vehicle for salvage purposes. This is a duplicate of HB 999.

Patron - Williams

F Failed

F HB36

Special license plates; general registrars. Moves from § 46.2-746.9 to § 46.2-737 authorization for issuance of special license plates for general registrars. The effect of this change is to exempt these plates from the standard minimum order requirements.

Patron - Parrish

F HB127

Special license plates; veterans of World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Shield, or Operation Desert Storm. Changes the $10 annual surcharge imposed for the issuance of World War II veteran, Korean War veteran, Vietnam War veteran, and Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm veteran special license plates to a one-time $25 surcharge.

Patron - Shuler

F HB320

Motor vehicles; penalty for failure to stop at accident. Increases from a Class 6 to a Class 5 felony the penalty for the failure of a driver of a vehicle to stop at an accident.

Patron - Day

F HB393

Special license plates; 173rd Airborne Brigade. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to members and former members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, instead of to members of the Society of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. These license plates would be exempt from minimum order requirements generally applicable to special license plates.

Patron - Ware

F HB439

Special license plates; military assault forces. Reduces the additional fee for special license plates for members of military assault forces from $10 per year to a one-time surcharge of $15.

Patron - Davis

F HB442

Traffic lights; "photo red" program. Allows Hampton to participate in the pilot program using photo-monitoring equipment to enforce of traffic light signals ("photo red").

Patron - Larrabee

F HB486

Speeding; specially posted residence districts. Increases the penalty for speeding in specially posted residence districts from a fine of no more than $200 to a fine of $250 for a first offense, and $500 for a second or subsequent offense.

Patron - Orrock

F HB569

Special license plates; foxhunting enthusiasts. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to foxhunting enthusiasts.

Patron - Ruff

F HB576

Driver's license applications; change of address forms. Provides for obtaining, through driver's license applications and DMV change of address forms, the zip codes where applicants and licensees work. Furnishing of this information is voluntary. The information is to be used solely by DMV or other state agencies to determine and analyze commuting patterns. Data thus released by DMV to other agencies cannot contain any "personal information," as defined in the Privacy Protection Act of 1976.

Patron - Albo

F HB583

Speed determination devices. Requires law-enforcement officers, upon request, to allow affected motorists to see the readings on the radar devices. This is provided for under current law for microcomputer and laser speed determination devices, but not radar.

Patron - Spruill

F HB589

Special license plates; Soldier's Medal recipients. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to recipients of the Soldier's Medal and their unremarried surviving spouses.

Patron - Black

F HB593

"Photo red" traffic light signal enforcement program. Adds Prince William County and the cites of Manassas and Manassas Park to the list of localities authorized to have "photo red" traffic light signal enforcement programs.

Patron - McQuigg

F HB648

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.

Patron - Jones, S.C.

F HB654

Local bicycle helmet ordinances. Provides for imposition of fine against the parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis to the violator, and suspension of fines if, after the violation but before the imposition of the fine, the violator shows he has a protective helmet.

Patron - Grayson

F HB731

Motor vehicles speed determination devices. Allows State Police to use microcomputers in fixed-wing and/or rotary wing aircraft to enforce speed limits on highways in the Interstate System; repeals limitation of State Police to acquisition of no more than two microcomputer speed determination devices; provides that law-enforcement officers are not required to show airborne microcomputer speed detection device readings to affected motorists.

Patron - Griffith

F HB800

Driver's licenses; English proficiency. Requires that applicants for Virginia Driver's licenses have sufficient proficiency in the English language to read and understand highway informational, directional, and warning signs.

Patron - Ruff

F HB824

Special license plates; Virginia Insurance Continuing Education Board. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to members of the Virginia Insurance Continuing Education Board.

Patron - Jones, S.C.

F HB954

Welfare fraud investigations. Provides access for directors of local departments of social services or their designees to law-enforcement databases regarding motor vehicle registration and ownership only in order to facilitate welfare fraud investigations.

Patron - Jackson

F HB1029

Intermodal chassis. Provides procedures for ensuring safety of intermodal chassis and containers pulled by truckers.

Patron - Drake

F HB1127

Uniform Fine Schedule. Requires the Supreme Court to amend the Uniform Fine Schedule to include additional offenses and infractions.

Patron - McDonnell

F HB1157

Motor vehicle registrations; farm vehicle exemptions. Allows unregistered vehicles to travel on the highways to and from refuse disposal facilities to dispose of trash and garbage generated on a farm.

Patron - Landes

F HB1158

Motor vehicle registration; farm vehicle exemptions. Allows machinery and tractors to operate to and from repair shops for repairs without being registered.

Patron - Landes

F HB1280

Safety lap belts and shoulder harnesses. Provides that a law-enforcement officer can now stop a vehicle for failure of the driver or passengers to wear a seatbelt. However, the officer is not allowed to search or inspect a vehicle, its contents, the driver or a passenger because of a violation of this section alone.

Patron - Jones, J.C.

F HB1294

Motor vehicle dealers; warranty obligations. Provides that the manufacturer's reasonable time standards be applied when calculating compensation of a dealer for warranty service and diagnostic work; allows the payment of a reasonable handling fee when a manufacturer provides a part at no cost to the dealer; removes the provision allowing compensation in the same manner as warranty parts compensation when there has been no dealer investment. The bill also requires reasonable material documentation in accordance with the manufacturer's written policies and procedures for warranty compensation.

Patron - Jones, J.C.

F HB1346

Overweight vehicles; concrete haulers. Provides for overweight permits for three-axle vehicles used to haul concrete up to 74,000 pounds gross weight and 54,000 pounds axle weight for a tri-axle grouping. The bill further provides for additional overweight extensions, for vehicles used to haul concrete, beyond the currently allowed five percent extension of single axle weights of 20,000 by authorizing weight extensions of up to five percent on the tandem axle weight limit, four-axle weight, the tri-axle grouping weight, and the three-axle weight provided for in § 46.2-1142. A sliding fee of from $35 to $200 would be charged for permits authorizing the additional axle weight extensions.

Patron - Drake

F HB1347

Uninsured motor vehicles; waiver of operator's rights. 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 a crash with another vehicle that is insured or has properly proved financial responsibility.

Patron - Drake

F HB1407

Mopeds. Requires that moped operators have driver's licenses (but does require not a motorcycle endorsement to the license) and that moped operators and passengers wear safety helmets; repeals a section granting local governments the authority to adopt ordinances requiring substantially the same equipment for mopeds mandated statewide by the bill.

Patron - Crittenden

F HB1417

Selling vehicles. Prohibits selling of any registered vehicle at any address other than the address shown on the vehicle's registration card, unless the seller has obtained written permission from the owner of the property and displays this permission on the vehicle. Violations are punishable as Class 4 misdemeanors.

Patron - Katzen

F HB1467

Proof of insurance. Requires operators of vehicles registered as insured vehicles to carry proof of insurance, and operators of vehicles registered as uninsured vehicles to carry proof of payment of the uninsured vehicle fee, when driving on the public highways. Failure, refusal, or inability to produce such proof of insurance or proof of payment of the uninsured vehicle fee when requested by a law-enforcement officer constitutes a traffic infraction (fine up to $200).

Patron - Bolvin

F HB1496

Stopping at railroad grade crossings. Makes it a Class 4 misdemeanor (fine up to $250) instead of the present traffic infraction (fine up to $200) to fail to obey railroad crossing signals and other provisions of law relating to when a vehicle must stop at railroad grade crossings.

Patron - Devolites

F SB9

Vehicles drawing trailers and semitrailers. Authorizes drawing of two trailers or semitrailers by a tractor truck or pickup truck if (a) no trailer or semitrailer in the combination is transporting any cargo, (b) no trailer or semitrailer in the combination weighs more than 3,200 pounds, and (c) the trailers or semitrailers are being transported from a manufacturer located in Virginia to a licensed Virginia dealer for resale.

Patron - Trumbo

F SB269

Riding bicycles on highways; mirrors required. Provides that no person may ride a bicycle on a highway in the Commonwealth if the bicycle is not equipped with a mirror that reflects to the rider a view of the highway for a distance of not less than 200 feet to the rear of such bicycle.

Patron - Miller, Y.B.

F SB354

Special identification license plates; members of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services. Authorizes issuance of special identification license plates to members of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service and Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Services. ARES/RACES license plates are to be valid for two years, and renewable upon written certification that the applicant has met annual continuing education requirements and has actively participated in annual Simulated Emergency Tests as set forth by the ARES/RACES State Section Emergency Coordinator and State RACES Office.

Patron - Edwards

F SB511

Motor vehicle emissions inspections. Increases the maximum allowed fee for a motor vehicle emissions inspection from $20 to $50, provided the amount of the fee is posted on the premises of the inspection station and disclosed in the document presented, prior to the inspection, to the operator of the vehicle to be inspected. The bill also eliminates obsolete references to expired emissions inspections programs and fees allowable therefor.

Patron - Barry

F SB641

Driver's licenses of minors. Limits to parents or guardians who have primary physical custody the ability to have the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) cancel their children's or wards' driver's licenses.

Patron - Hanger

F SB745

Photo enforcement of traffic light signals. Allows every county, city, and town to establish a program for photo enforcement of traffic light signals ("photo red" program).

Patron - Maxwell

F SB748

Use of "revenue sharing" funds for highway projects in counties. Allows cities to participate in the "revenue sharing" fund distribution of certain state highway matching funds (under § 33.1-75.1) under the same terms as counties.

Patron - Maxwell

F SB762

Disabled parking license plates. Authorizes use of disabled parking license plates on leased vehicles.

Patron - Mims

C Carried Over

C HB66

Motor vehicle sun shading and window tinting films. Prohibits issuance of state safety inspection approval stickers for vehicles not in compliance with sun shading and window tinting requirements.

Patron - Cranwell

C HB240

Special license plates; Soldier's Medal recipients. Authorizes issuance of special license plates to recipients of the Soldier's Medal and their unremarried surviving spouses.

Patron - Hull

C HB417

"Photo red" traffic light signal enforcement program. Adds James City County to the list of localities authorized to have "photo red" traffic light signal enforcement programs.

Patron - Grayson

C HB422

Driver's licenses; special identification cards. Prohibits display of any social security number on any Virginia driver's license or DMV-issued special identification card. Persons who choose to have driver's license numbers that are not the same as their social security cards will continue to have those numbers displayed on their driver's licenses.

Patron - Darner

C HB465

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

C HB475

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

C HB557

Mopeds. Provides that, for all purposes of Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles), mopeds will be treated as motorcycles in Front Royal.

Patron - Louderback

C HB584

Motor vehicle laws. Prohibits use of quotas by law-enforcement agencies in enforcing the provision of Title 46.2 (Motor Vehicles) of the Code of Virginia.

Patron - Spruill

C HB678

Presumption that reckless driver and vehicle owner are the same person. Provides that, in any prosecution for reckless driving, if it is proved beyond a reasonable doubt that (i) the motor vehicle described in the warrant or summons is the actual vehicle alleged to have been operated in violation of the section, (ii) such motor vehicle was operated in violation of the section, and (iii) when the violation occurred the defendant was the registered owner of the vehicle, it shall be rebuttably presumed that the defendant was operating the vehicle.

Patron - Weatherholtz

C HB733

Railroad warning signals. Establishes a pilot program for photo enforcement of warning signals at railroad grade crossings. The program very closely parallels the pilot program for photo enforcement of traffic light signals ("photo-red" program), except that this program would be available to any county, city, or town (and not to limited localities) and it would not expire on July 1, 2005 (as the "photo-red" program does).

Patron - Devolites

C HB894

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 - Spruill

C HB974

"Photo red" traffic light signal enforcement program. Adds Charlottesville and Albemarle County to the list of localities authorized to have "photo red" traffic light signal enforcement programs.

Patron - Van Yahres

C HB990

Passing on highways. Requires, except for specific situations, all traffic on limited access highways to stay in the right-most lane except when passing other vehicles going in the same direction.

Patron - Rhodes

C HB1042

Driver's licenses; fees. Provides a discount of 50 cents per year for issuance of driver's licenses to persons who designate their willingness to be organ donors.

Patron - Amundson

C HB1089

Three-for-life. Increases, effective July 1, 2001, from two dollars per year (two-for-life) to three dollars per year (three-for-life) the motor vehicle registration surcharge used to support emergency medical services.

Patron - Orrock

C HB1393

Passing a stopped school bus. Provides that in a prosecution for the civil offense (rather than a prosecution of the criminal offense) of passing a stopped school bus, the only way to rebut the presumption that the registered owner was the driver at the time of the offense is to identify the probable driver. Currently, there is not a specific and exclusive way to rebut the presumption.

Patron - McDonnell

C SB642

Special license plates; vehicles used to transport persons with certain medical conditions. Authorizes issuance of special license plates for use on vehicles equipped, as authorized in § 46.2-1053, with window tinting darker than that allowed on vehicles used by the general public, because they are used to transport persons with medical conditions that render them susceptible to harm or injury from exposure to sunlight or bright artificial light. Only vehicles bearing these special license plates would be allowed to drive on the public highways if equipped with the darker window tinting.

Patron - Hanger

C SB644

Pedestrians. Eliminates the requirement that pedestrians shall not carelessly or maliciously interfere with traffic. The bill also requires that (i) pedestrians cross highways only at intersections or marked crosswalks; (ii) when pedestrians cross highways other than at intersections or marked crosswalks, they must yield the right-of-way to vehicles in the roadway; (iii) pedestrians who cross highways at locations where pedestrian tunnels or overpasses are provided must yield the right-of-way to vehicles on the roadway; (iv) pedestrians shall not cross intersections diagonally except in localities where the practice is allowed by local ordinance; and (v) drivers of vehicles exercise due diligence in not colliding with pedestrians.

Patron - Whipple

C SB686

Uninsured motor vehicles; waiver of operator's rights. 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 a crash with another vehicle that is insured or has properly proved financial responsibility.

Patron - Schrock

C SB696

Safety lap belts and shoulder harnesses. Provides that a law-enforcement officer may stop a vehicle for failure of the driver or passengers to wear a seatbelt. However, the officer is not allowed to search or inspect a vehicle, its contents, the driver or a passenger because of a violation of this section alone. This bill is the same as HB 1280.

Patron - Stolle