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Highways, Bridges and Ferries

Passed

P HB22

HOV lanes; taxicabs. Allows taxicabs to use HOV lanes if they have two or more occupants, including the driver.
Patron - Rollison

P HB297

Urban system construction allocations. Allows any city or town, with the consent of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, to use its urban construction allocations for resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and improvement of streets for which it receives maintenance payments under § 33.1-41.1. This bill is identical to SB 77.
Patron - McDonnell

P HB426

Transportation revenue bonds; Northern Virginia Transportation District Program. Increases the maximum principal amount of transportation revenue bonds that may be issued for the Northern Virginia Transportation District Program by $29 million, from $471.2 million to $500.2 million, and designates the projects for the increased funding.
Patron - Black

P HB518

Hunter Mill Road. Designates the entire length of Hunter Mill Road in Fairfax County a Virginia byway.
Patron - Devolites

P HB614

James Vincent Morgan Bridges. Designates the twin bridges on U.S. Route 17 over Dragon Run at the Gloucester/Middlesex County boundary the "James Vincent Morgan Bridges."
Patron - Bloxom

P HB667

Purple Heart Trail. Adds I-64 between I-95 and the Virginia/West Virginia boundary to the network of highways designated the Purple Heart Trail.
Patron - Cox

P HB1006

Waiver of certain statutory mandates and regulations by Governor. Allows the Governor, whenever necessary to avert or respond to a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, or contribute to military operations during a time of war or state of emergency, to the maximum extent not inconsistent with federal law, to waive state statutory mandates and regulations to expedite the construction, reconstruction, alteration, or relocation of highways, bridges, tunnels, and associated facilities or structures.
Patron - McDonnell

P HB1196

Interstate Route 73. Provides for the early acquisition by VDOT from willing sellers of rights-of-way required for construction of Interstate 73 in Virginia using funds to be obtained by VDOT from the federal government.
Patron - Dudley

P HB1244

Truck weights; overweight permits; road tax; penalties. Provides for an increase of the maximum weight of vehicles operating under "bought tolerances" from 80,000 pounds to 84,000 pounds. The bill also allows the DMV Commissioner to authorize agencies other than DMV to issue overweight permits for trucks, provides for overweight permits for trucks used to haul "excavated material," and replaces the present 19.5 cents-per-gallon road use tax with a flat fee of $100 per qualified vehicle. There are also editorial changes.
Patron - Stump

P HB1247

Asset management. Provides a definition of "asset management" applicable to Title 33.1 (Highways, Bridges, and Ferries) of the Code. Asset management is defined as a systematic process of operating the state systems of highways by combining engineering practices and analysis with sound business practices and economic theory to achieve cost-effective outcomes. The bill also includes target dates for the Commissioner to advise the Board of performance targets and outcomes that will be met.
Patron - Rust

P HB1248

VDOT contractors. Clarifies provisions of the Code enacted in 2001 relating to actions of VDOT contractors that cause environmental damage or violate environmental laws or permits.
Patron - Rust

P HB1326

Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission to impose civil penalties against persons who violate the provisions of the Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act that require operators to join notification centers. The bill contains an emergency clause.
Patron - Scott

P SB4

No-truck route; U.S. 17. Repeals the June 30, 2002, "sunset" on the prohibition of operation of tractor truck/semitrailer combinations on U.S. 17 in Fauquier County between U.S. 50 and Interstate 66, except for deliveries, pickups, or transactions within 25 miles.
Patron - Potts

P SB77

Urban system construction allocations. Allows any city or town, with the consent of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, to use its urban construction allocations for resurfacing, restoration, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and improvement of streets for which it receives maintenance payments under § 33.1-41.1. This bill is identical to HB 297.
Patron - Colgan

P SB226

Regulation of outdoor advertising in sight of public highways; definitions. Defines the term "lawfully erected," for the purposes of Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 33.1 of the Code of Virginia to mean any sign that was erected pursuant to a permit from the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner unless the local governing body has evidence of noncompliance with ordinances in effect at the time the sign was erected.
Patron - Trumbo

P SB251

Allocation of urban system highway construction funds, maintenance payments, and local matching requirements applicable to certain towns. Revises three Code sections to bring greater stability and uniformity to the way construction funds and maintenance funds are distributed to and matching requirements are applied to towns with relatively small populations. The bill also retroactively confirms actions already taken that may not necessarily have been in strict conformity with statute because of the ambiguity or inconsistency of some statutory provisions.
Patron - Hawkins

P SB262

Obsolete highways. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board to convey to local governing bodies portions of state highways that are no longer necessary.
Patron - Lambert

P SB382

VDOT pedestrian and bicycle projects. Allows VDOT to fund and undertake pedestrian and bicycle projects apart from highway projects.
Patron - Whipple

P SB569

Department of Rail and Public Transportation. Updates four Code sections to eliminate minor discrepancies, obsolete language, and other inaccuracies relating generally to the powers and responsibilities of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation and its Director. This is largely a housekeeping bill.
Patron - Whipple

P SB674

Definitions of "asset management," "competitive sealed bidding," and "construction"; procurement of contracts by Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). Defines "asset management," "competitive sealed bidding," and "construction" and provides limitations on how certain VDOT maintenance contracts are to be procured.
Patron - Wampler

Failed

F HB184

Urban system construction allocations. Allows the City of Manassas Park, with the consent of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, to use its urban construction allocations for reconstruction, maintenance, and improvement of streets for which it receives maintenance payments under § 33.1-41.1.
Patron - Parrish

F HB404

Street maintenance payments to cities and some towns. Adds the Town of Broadway to the list of towns (Wise, Lebanon, and Blackstone) that receive street maintenance payments from the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, subject to the approval of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
Patron - Weatherholtz

F HB433

Economic incentive grants by Commonwealth Transportation Board to counties, cities, towns, and certain airports. Provides for use by the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) of a portion of the industrial/airport access road fund to support economic incentive programs by counties, cities, towns, and licensed public-use airports by providing a means to fund access roads to publicly owned industrial parks and licensed public-use airports. In cases where the Board has recaptured funds from counties, cites, and towns between July 1, 1994, and June 30, 2002, the Board is required to return to those localities the amounts recaptured. Where a county, city, town, or licensed public-use airport has an active outstanding grant under the industrial access road bonded program, such grants will be reissued under the terms of the economic incentive grant program established in the bill.
Patron - Hurt

F HB569

Secondary system highways; use by persons expelled or suspended from school. Provides that whenever any person is suspended or expelled from any public school, the chief administrative officer of that school may prohibit the use of any secondary system highway used primarily to provide access to that school by any person so suspended or expelled for the term of such period of suspension or expulsion. Persons violating any such prohibition would be guilty of trespassing.
Patron - Byron

F HB715

Economic incentive grants by Commonwealth Transportation Board to counties, cities, towns, and certain airports. Provides for use by the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) of a portion of the industrial/airport access road fund to support economic incentive programs by counties, cities, towns, and licensed public-use airports by providing a means to fund access roads to publicly owned industrial parks and licensed public-use airports. In cases where the Board has recaptured funds from counties, cites, and towns between July 1, 1994, and June 30, 2002, the Board is required to return to those localities the amounts recaptured. Where a county, city, town, or licensed public-use airport has an active outstanding grant under the industrial access road bonded program, such grants will be reissued under the terms of the economic incentive grant program established in the bill.
Patron - Armstrong

F HB759

Drainage easements. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation to maintain highway drainage easements, both on and off highway right-of-way.
Patron - Rapp

F HB764

Outdoor advertising; campaign signs. Allows any locality that has entered into an agreement with VDOT regarding sign enforcement in VDOT rights-of-way, by ordinance to also prohibit the erection of campaign signs more than 45 days before an election and restrict or prohibit erection of signs larger than six square feet.
Patron - Watts

F HB933

Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission; bonds. Prohibits the Commission from issuing bonds to pay the cost of improvements that would substantially expand the capacity to accommodate larger flows of traffic, unless specific approval is first obtained from the General Assembly. The bill also includes technical amendments to conform with subsequent and controlling statutory provisions.
Patron - Wardrup

F HB947

Transportation projects; Harrisonburg-Southeast Bypass. Defines the transportation projects that shall be funded under the Harrisonburg-Southeast Bypass project included in Chapters 1019 and 1044 of the Acts of Assembly of 2000.
Patron - Weatherholtz

F HB1184

Transfer of property from Virginia Department of Transportation to Department of Conservation and Recreation. Authorizes the Department of Transportation to transfer to the Department of Conservation and Recreation the ownership of the triangular parcel of land within or abutting the U.S. 23 right-of-way at the point where Virginia Route 871 crosses a park boundary.
Patron - Kilgore

F HB1289

Transportation projects; Harrisonburg-Southeast Corridor Improvements. Defines the transportation projects that shall be funded under the Harrisonburg-Southeast Corridor Improvements project included in Chapters 1019 and 1044 of the Acts of Assembly of 2000.
Patron - Landes

F HB1295

Sales and use tax; additional tax in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads regions to fund transportation projects. Increases the state sales and use tax by one percent in all cities and counties within the Northern Virginia Transportation District and the Hampton Roads Transportation District. The revenues from such increase shall be used to fund transportation projects in such regions. The bill repeals the right of certain localities to impose a local income tax. The bill has a delayed effective date of July 1, 2003, and those portions of the bill related to Northern Virginia are contingent upon approval by a majority of persons of all the cities and counties in the Northern Virginia Transportation District voting in a joint referendum on November 5, 2002; and those portions of the bill related to Hampton Roads are contingent upon approval by a majority of persons voting in such a referendum in the Hampton Roads Transportation District.
Patron - Rollison

F HB1340

Virginia Federal Highway Reimbursement Anticipation Notes. Amends the Virginia Federal Highway Reimbursement Anticipation Notes Act of 2000 by making all projects that are ready to be advertised for construction, and that are listed in the Capital Improvement Program of the Virginia Transportation Development Plan as adopted and as may be amended from time to time by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, eligible for funding from the proceeds from such Notes.
Patron - Suit

F HB1353

Definitions of "asset management," "competitive sealed bidding," and "construction"; procurement of contracts by Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). Defines "asset management," "competitive sealed bidding," and "construction" and provides limitations on how certain VDOT maintenance contracts are to be procured. This bill is incorporated into HB 1373.
Patron - Saxman

F HB1366

Richmond Metropolitan Authority. Transfers control of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority's toll roads to the Commonwealth upon the redemption and retirement of all the Authority's outstanding bonded indebtedness .
Patron - Ware

F HJ132

Coalfields Expressway. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to approve the Brown and Root proposal to build the Coalfields Expressway as soon as possible following the issuance of the Record of Decision by the Federal Highway Administration.
Patron - Phillips

F HJ160

Reauthorization of the federal surface transportation program. Urges Congress to reauthorize the federal surface transportation program to (i) provide fair and equitable distribution of highway funds to states, (ii) ensure that firewalls between the Transportation Trust Fund and other federal spending be maintained, (iii) continue Revenue Aligned Budget Authority, and (iv) meaningfully streamline federal environmental and other regulations to expedite project review and highway construction. This resolution is identical to HR 21.
Patron - McDonnell

F SB26

Economic incentive grants by Commonwealth Transportation Board to counties, cities, town, and certain airports. Provides for use by the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) of a portion of the industrial/airport access road fund to support economic incentive programs by counties, cities, towns, and licensed public-use airports by providing a means to fund access roads to publicly owned industrial parks and licensed public-use airports. In cases where the Board has recaptured funds from counties, cites, and towns between July 1, 1994, and June 30, 2002, the Board is required to return to those localities the amounts recaptured. Where a county, city, town, or licensed public-use airport has an active outstanding grant under the industrial access road bonded program, such grants will be reissued under the terms of the economic incentive grant program established in the bill.
Patron - Reynolds

F SB33

Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Appropriation Bonds Act of 2002. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Appropriation Bonds pursuant to Article X, Section 9 (d) of the Virginia Constitution in an amount not to exceed $317,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 and $335,600,000 in fiscal year 2004 for a total of $652,600,000. The purpose of the bonds is to provide funds, together with any other available funds, for paying the costs of projects authorized in the Virginia Transportation Development Plan as needed to meet construction cash-flow needs.
Patron - Chichester

F SB34

Commonwealth Transportation Board; bonds. Adds to the general statutory powers of the Commonwealth Transportation Board the authority to issue Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Appropriation Bonds.
Patron - Chichester

F SB43

Economic incentive grants by Commonwealth Transportation Board to counties, cities, towns, and certain airports. Provides for use by the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) of a portion of the industrial/airport access road fund to support economic incentive programs by counties, cities, towns, and licensed public-use airports by providing a means to fund access roads to publicly owned industrial parks and licensed public-use airports. In cases where the Board has recaptured funds from counties, cites, and towns between July 1, 1994, and June 30, 2002, the Board is required to return to those localities the amounts recaptured. Where a county, city, town, or licensed public-use airport has an active outstanding grant under the industrial access road bonded program, such grants will be reissued under the terms of the economic incentive grant program established in the bill.
Patron - Reynolds

F SB166

Advertising within highway rights-of-way. Provides that persons who illegally place advertising within highway rights-of-way in Planning District No. 8 shall be assessed civil penalties of $1,000 for each offense. The penalty for doing so elsewhere is unchanged (civil penalty of $100).
Patron - Byrne

F SB397

Allocation of federal highway safety funds. Requires that prior to being allocated for any other purpose, 25 percent of all federal surface transportation program safety funds must be allocated statewide to fund pedestrian safety improvements, including but not limited to the Safe Routes to School Program.
Patron - Whipple

F SB501

Transportation projects; Harrisonburg-Southeast Bypass. Defines the transportation projects that shall be funded under the Harrisonburg-Southeast Bypass project included in Chapters 1019 and 1044 of the Acts of Assembly of 2000. This bill conflicts with HB 1289.
Patron - Miller, K.G.

F SB582

Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission. Reduces the Commission from 11 to nine members by providing single appointments from Portsmouth or Chesapeake and Hampton or Newport News.
Patron - Rerras

Carried Over

C HB109

Commonwealth of Virginia Federal Highway Reimbursement Anticipation Notes Act of 2002. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue Commonwealth of Virginia Federal Highway Reimbursement Anticipation Notes in the principal amount not to exceed $750,000,000 to help fund and accelerate transportation projects already specified pursuant to the Commonwealth of Virginia Federal Highway Reimbursement Anticipation Notes Act of 2000.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

C HB110

Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Revenue Bond Act of 2002. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue revenue bonds in the principal amount not to exceed $1 billion with the proceeds to be used for an electronic communication infrastructure project to aid telecommuting and ease traffic congestion and other specified transportation projects. The bill funds the bonds by dedicating one-third of the annual revenues from the insurance license tax.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

C HB130

Urban highway construction allocations. Allows any city or town to use up to six percent of its urban system construction allocation in any year for traffic calming projects or devices.
Patron - Darner

C HB264

Outdoor advertising; temporary directional signs. Provides that localities that have entered into agreements with VDOT regarding sign enforcement in VDOT rights-of-way may by such agreement regulate the placement of temporary directional signs through the use of permits.
Patron - McQuigg

C HB382

Logo sign program. Provides that businesses cannot be "bumped" from VDOT logo sign program because of relocation or reconstruction of highway interchanges.
Patron - Wardrup

C HB510

Urban street maintenance payments. Adds two additional sorts of nonstandard streets to the list of those that will be eligible for maintenance payments from VDOT.
Patron - Drake

C HB772

Primary highway system; allocation of construction funds. Provides that 25 percent of primary system construction funds are to be apportioned among the nine construction districts on the basis of the ratio of vehicle-miles traveled on primary highways divided by the number of lane miles of primary highways in each construction district, with the remaining 75 percent distributed under the existing formula.
Patron - Watts

C HB895

I-64 weighing station in Henrico County. Repeals the 1999 Acts of Assembly that required the relocation of the VDOT weighing station on I-64 in Henrico County (Bottoms Bridge scales) and provides, instead, for improvements to the existing facility.
Patron - McDougle

C HB1249

Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to appoint an inspector general.
Patron - Rust

C HB1252

Highway construction districts; Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB). Replaces the present nine highway construction districts with seven regions, as recommended by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission. The bill also reduces the membership of the CTB by two members, with the members hitherto appointed on a district basis replaced by members appointed on a regional basis. The five at-large members of the CTB would be elected by the General Assembly (three by the House of Delegates and two by the Senate) instead of being appointed by the Governor.
Patron - Rollison

C HB1253

State highway systems; allocation of funds for highway construction, reconstruction, and maintenance. Replaces the state primary, secondary, and urban highway systems with statewide, regional, and local highway systems and revises the system of allocating state funding to those highway systems.
Patron - Rollison

C HB1276

Urban and secondary highway system construction allocations. Allocates urban system and secondary system highway construction funds among affected jurisdictions on the basis of (i) area, (ii) vehicle miles traveled per lane-mile, and (iii) population, with area being weighted 15 percent, vehicle miles traveled per lane-mile weighted 25 percent, and population weighted 60 percent.
Patron - Rust

C HB1330

Commonwealth Transportation Board contracts. Requires that contracts of the Commonwealth Transportation Board or the Department of Transportation make contractors responsible for keeping the projects graffiti-free until they are turned over to the Commonwealth.
Patron - Bolvin

C SB204

Evaluation of highway construction impacts. Requires the Department of Transportation to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of all proposed highway projects estimated to cost $100 million or more.
Patron - Houck

C SB320

High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. Prohibits the designation of HOV lanes on any portion of Interstate Route 264 in the City of Virginia Beach. The bill also repeals Chapter 914 of the Acts of Assembly of 1999, which prohibited HOV lane designations on several controlled access highways in southside Hampton Roads, but never became effective.
Patron - Stolle

C SB332

High-speed passenger rail transportation systems. Requires that no agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision of the Commonwealth construct, reconstruct, improve, or contribute to the improvement of tracks, signals, highway crossings, or passenger facilities of any kind intended to provide or facilitate the provision of any high-speed passenger rail transportation system unless the tracks over which such service is provided through a corridor that passes through, adjacent to, or within no more than 20 miles of localities whose combined population, based on the 2000 Census, equals at least 50 percent of the total population of the Commonwealth.
Patron - Wagner

C SB352

Fund to expedite construction of I-73 in Henry County. Establishes a special fund to expedite construction of I-73 in Henry County. The Fund consists of the first $3 million of annual collections of state taxes on motor fuels, fees and charges on motor vehicle registrations, road taxes or any other state revenue allocated for highway purposes.
Patron - Reynolds

C SB444

Commonwealth Transportation Board; selection of at-large members. Provides that the five at-large members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) will be elected by the House of Delegates and the Senate, instead of being appointed by the Governor. Three at-large members (at least one "urban" at-large member and at least one "rural" at-large member) will be elected by the House of Delegates, and two (one "urban" at-large member and one "rural" at-large member) will be elected by the Senate. CTB members elected by the House or Delegates or the Senate would not be removable by the Governor. The bill does not apply to members appointed prior to July 1, 2002.
Patron - Williams


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