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Highways, Bridges and Ferries

Passed

P HB 1685

Primary system highway construction funds. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board to allocate primary system highway construction funds to highway construction projects maintained or to be maintained by municipalities, provided such construction projects involve components of the National Highway System and the funds are derived from allocations to the highway construction district in which the project is located.
Patron - Toscano

P HB 1722

Road to Revolution Heritage Trail. Establishes the Road to Revolution heritage trail to highlight and celebrate Patrick Henry's leading role in liberating Virginia from Colonial rule to independence.
Patron - Peace

P HB 1746

Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation; inventory. Requires the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation to compile and maintain an up-to-date inventory of all railroad corridors in the Commonwealth abandoned after January 1, 1970.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

P HB 2105

Charles B. Morris Memorial Bridge. Designates the Interstate 77 bridge over U.S. Route 58 in Carroll County the "Charles B. Morris Memorial Bridge."
Patron - Carrico

P HB 2128

Adjustment or relocation of billboard signs. Provides that the owner of a billboard situated on land acquired due to widening, construction, or reconstruction by purchase or by exercise of eminent domain may relocate the billboard to another location as close as practicable on the same property and may adjust the height or angle of the billboard.
Patron - Hugo

P HB 2165

Monacan Parkway. Designates that portion of U.S. Route 29 between its intersection with U.S. Route 29 (business) in the Town of Amherst and its intersection with U.S. Route 460 in Campbell County the "Monacan Parkway."
Patron - Valentine

P HB 2228

Powers of CTC; highway access management standards. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner (CTC) to develop and implement comprehensive highway access management standards for managing access to and preserving and improving the efficient operation of the state systems of highways.
Patron - Wardrup

P HB 2314

Tolls on Interstate Highway System components. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board, in accordance with all applicable federal and state statutes and requirements, to impose and collect tolls for the use of any component of the Interstate Highway System within the Commonwealth, with the proceeds to be deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund and allocated by the Board.
Patron - Lingamfelter

P HB 2538

Right of CTC to enter on land to ascertain its suitability for transportation purposes; damages. Revises the procedures according to which the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner (CTC), through his duly authorized agents, may enter upon any land in the Commonwealth for the purposes of determining its suitability for highway and other transportation purposes.
Patron - Landes

P HB 2540

Lance Corporal Jason Redifer Memorial Bridge. Designates the Virginia Route 608 bridge over Interstate Route 64 in Augusta County at Fishersville the "Lance Corporal Jason Redifer Memorial Bridge."
Patron - Landes

P HB 2541

Lance Corporal Daniel Scott Resner Bubb Memorial Bridge. Designates the Virginia Route 256 bridge over Interstate Route 81 in Augusta County at Weyers Cave as the "Lance Corporal Daniel Scott Resner Bubb Memorial Bridge."
Patron - Landes

P HB 2781

Transfer of highways, etc., by CTB to control of public access authorities. Allows the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB), upon the request of a public access authority, to transfer to the authority any and all rights and interests of the Board in highways, highway rights-of-way, and landings without first abandoning or discontinuing them.
Patron - Morgan

P HB 2785

Allocation of highway funds; additional allocation to certain port cities. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board, from funds appropriated for such purpose in the general appropriation act, is to allocate additional funds to the Cities of Newport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth, and the County of Warren for use in addressing highway maintenance and repair needs created by or associated with port operations in those localities.
Patron - Joannou

P HB 2838

Biennial report by VDOT on maintaining and operating existing transportation infrastructure. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation, no later than September 15 of each odd-numbered year, to submit to the Governor, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, and the Commonwealth Transportation Board a report on the condition and needs for maintaining and operating the existing transportation infrastructure in the Commonwealth for all asset management and maintenance, based on an asset management methodology.
Patron - Amundson

P HB 2854

Financial reports by VDOT and VDRPT. Requires the preparation and dissemination of additional financial information by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (VDRPT).
Patron - Moran

P HB 2951

Tolls on U.S. Route 17 in Chesapeake. Requires VDOT to impose and collect tolls for use of U.S. Route 17 in Chesapeake.
Patron - Cosgrove

P HB 3094

Virginia Coal Heritage Trail. Designates 95 highway segments in Southwest Virginia as the "Virginia Coal Heritage Trail" and declares them all to be Virginia byways.
Patron - Phillips

P HB 3202

Transportation funding and reform. Provides (i) statewide funding of transportation projects through current funds and additional funds, (ii) authority to localities in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads to impose additional fees for transportation, and (iii) several administrative and efficiency reforms impacting transportation. The bill also authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue bonds in an aggregate amount not to exceed $2.5 billion for statewide transportation funding with the debt service on such bonds to be paid from a portion of the annual revenues from the state recordation tax.
Patron - Howell, W.J.

P SB 829

Traffic signal enforcement programs; civil penalty. Grants localities the authority to operate traffic signal enforcement systems. Localities may install photo-monitoring systems at no more than one intersection for every 10,000 residents at one time. Provisions within the bill limit the use and retention of images recorded and provide other parameters and limitations for localities.
Patron - Devolites Davis

P SB 887

P SB 1059

Allocation of construction funds within the secondary system. Provides that in counties having elected to manage the construction program for the secondary system, payments may be made in equal amounts, one in each quarter of the fiscal year. The bill also states that the amount shall be reduced by the amount of federal-aid construction funds credited to each county and by the amount of funds forecast to be expended for any construction project or any other financial obligations. In addition, the chief administrative officer of such counties shall make annual reports of expenditures to the Department of Transportation.
Patron - Watkins

P SB 1092

American Former Prisoners of War Memorial Highway. Designates the portion of U.S. Route 19 in Russell County between Virginia Route 80 at Rosedale and the Russell/Tazewell County boundary the "American Former Prisoners of War Memorial Highway."
Patron - Puckett

P SB 1128

P SB 1181

Taking subdivision streets into state secondary highway system. Allows local governing bodies of any counties that have not withdrawn from the state secondary highway system to request the Commonwealth Transportation Board, by resolution, to take any new subdivision street into the state secondary highway system for maintenance if such subdivision street has been developed and constructed in accordance with the Board's subdivision street requirements. Only those subdivision streets constructed in compliance with the Board's subdivision street requirements are to be taken into the state secondary highway system for maintenance. The Board is further required to promulgate regulations establishing such subdivision street requirements. Regulations initially promulgated by the Board are to be exempt from provisions of the Administrative Process Act, but this exemption does not apply to subsequent regulations or amendments thereto.
Patron - Williams

P SB 1194

Contracts awarded by the Commonwealth Transportation Board or the Commissioner; submission of claims. Changes the claim submission time for contractors from the date of notification of the Department's final estimate to the date of the final estimate itself, which shall be set forth in a certified letter from the Department. Also provides that the written claim must be delivered to the Department.
Patron - Reynolds

P SB 1200

Local highway improvement projects; VDOT fees. Limits fees charged by VDOT for review of local highway improvement applications, plans, and plats to no more than $1,000 for each review.
Patron - Houck

P SB 1312

P SB 1370

Trooper Ricky Marshall McCoy Memorial Bridge. Designates the Virginia Route 635 bridge over Interstate Route 81 in the City of Salem the "Trooper Ricky Marshall McCoy Memorial Bridge."
Patron - Bell

Failed

F HB 1666

Statewide transportation impact fees. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall assess and impose reasonable impact fees to be collected by the Virginia Department of Transportation on new development or new subdivisions that are situated on an access road which has become, or which is to become, part of the primary system of state highways. Such impact fees shall be used to pay all or a part of the cost of reasonable road improvements that are (i) attributable in substantial part to the new development or new subdivision and (ii) necessary to render that access road which has become, or which is to become, part of the primary system of state highways operable at the Level of Service, as that term is described in the Highway Capacity Manual, that existed as of January 1, 2007.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1667

Impact fees for Loudoun County. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall assess and impose reasonable impact fees to be collected by the Virginia Department of Transportation on new development or new subdivisions that abut, are adjacent to, or are alongside U.S. Route 50 in Loudoun County between U.S. Route 15 and the Fairfax County line. Such impact fees shall be used to pay all or a part of the cost of reasonable road improvements that are (i) attributable in substantial part to the new development or new subdivision and (ii) necessary to render such portion of U.S. Route 50 operable at the Level of Service, as that term is described in the Highway Capacity Manual, that existed as of January 1, 2007. No impact fees shall be assessed or imposed upon a development or subdivision if (a) the subdivider or developer has proffered conditions for off-site road improvements and the proffered conditions have been accepted by the local government or (b) Loudoun County has assessed and imposed impact fees upon such development or subdivision.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1668

Impact fees in Loudoun County. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall assess and impose reasonable impact fees, to be collected by the Virginia Department of Transportation, on new development or new subdivisions that abut, are adjacent to, or are alongside U.S. Route 50 in Loudoun County between U.S. Route 15 and the Fairfax County line. Such impact fees shall be used to pay all or part of the cost of reasonable road improvements that are (i) attributable in substantial part to the new development or new subdivision and (ii) necessary to render such portion of U.S. Route 50 operable at the Level of Service, as that term is described in the Highway Capacity Manual that existed as of January 1, 2007.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1675

Revenue-sharing funds for certain counties, cities, and towns. Provides that revenue-sharing funds may be used to construct, maintain, or improve a highway system located between two or more localities. The bill also removes certain language setting priorities for distribution of revenue-sharing funds: (i) the requirement that the governing body commit more than $1 million in general funds and (ii) the requirement that the project be administered by the city, county, or town. In addition, the bill specifies that if proffers are accepted, they shall not be used to finance the activities or improvements for which the proffer was accepted and a permit issued but used to finance construction, maintenance, or improvement to highway systems within the locality under the revenue-sharing program. Lastly, the bill provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall allocate $50 million each fiscal year to satisfy all requests for matching funds under the revenue-sharing program.
Patron - Scott, E.T.

F HB 1700

Virginia Defense Facility and Transportation Improvement Fund and Program. Establishes the Virginia Defense Facility and Transportation Improvement Fund and Program. The Fund is to consist of $36 million of annual collections of state recordation taxes. Its proceeds are to be allocated by the Commonwealth Transportation Board to highway construction districts wherein federal defense facilities or bases are expanded as the result of actions of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission, and are to be used for transportation infrastructure improvements. The bill requires that matching funds be provided by the locality or localities in which a project will be located as a prerequisite to allocations from the Fund. The provisions of the bill would expire on July 1, 2011.
Patron - Lingamfelter

F HB 1701

Primary and secondary highway construction funds allocations. Revises the formulas used to allocate primary and secondary highway construction funds so that such funds are allocated on the basis of population.
Patron - Lingamfelter

F HB 1716

Fees on trucks. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to impose a fee on trucks and combination vehicles for use in maintaining state highways. The Board is to calculate, impose, and collect a fee for damage done to highways by certain vehicles. The amount of the fee is to be based on the difference between the amount received annually by the Commonwealth from the federal government for highway maintenance and the annual cost to the Commonwealth of repairing damage done to the highways of the Commonwealth by vehicles subject to the fee. The amount of the fee and the method of payment are to be determined by the Board. The fee is to be imposed on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, and no vehicle upon which a fee is assessed is to be operated on any highway of the Commonwealth if the fee is not paid in full on or before the date upon which payment of the fee is due.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1718

Transportation Trust Fund; funding in connection with rezoning application; road capacity. Allows a locality to deny or modify a request for rezoning when the existing and future transportation network that will serve the proposed development is inadequate to handle the anticipated transportation impact of the proposed development. The bill also provides that the Department of Transportation shall collect cash payments, in lieu of cash payments or proffers accepted by a locality, in an amount equal to that which a locality could accept pursuant to its ability to accept proffers if the inadequacy of the existing and future transportation network that would serve the proposed development, as determined by such locality, gives rise to the need for such cash payments or proffers.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1736

Littering; penalty. Creates a civil penalty of $250 for littering. The bill also creates a Litter Awareness Fund where the money will be deposited and used by the Department of Environmental Quality to create and implement a public awareness campaign to educate the public of the harmful effects of litter on the environment and that cigarette butts are litter.
Patron - Fralin

F HB 1741

Construction and improvement of primary or secondary highways by counties. Eliminates the requirement that primary and secondary highway improvement projects undertaken by counties be subject to approval of project plans and specifications by VDOT, provided that the county warrants and certifies that the projects were built in conformity with state standards and specifications. The bill also eliminates the ability of VDOT to recover from counties VDOT's costs of administering contracts for such projects.
Patron - Fralin

F HB 1742

Secondary system highways. Prohibits taking additional streets into the state secondary highway system on or after January 1, 2008, unless they are within an area subject to control by a homeowners association. This bill was incorporated into HB 2227.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1747

Emergency Evacuation Response Routes; Eighth Planning District. Designates portions of certain highways within the Eighth Planning District as Emergency Response Evacuation Routes and prohibits impediments not approved by the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices from being placed on those portions of highways.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1748

Virginia Route 606. Designates Virginia Route 606 in Loudoun County between U.S. Route 50 and Virginia Route 28 a component of the state primary highway system.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1749

Dulles Toll Road; tolls. Imposes certain conditions on the increase and use of tolls on the Dulles Toll Road.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1753

Virginia Route 606. Designates Virginia Route 606 in Loudoun County between U.S. Route 50 and Virginia Route 28 a component of the state primary highway system.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1754

Publication of transportation funds. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation to publish annually in hard copy and in electronic format on its website a list of all funds used in the Commonwealth for transportation purposes and the source of such funds, including federal, state, and local sources.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1760

Consolidation of VDOT maintenance facilities. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board, Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, and the Virginia Department of Transportation forthwith to suspend any and all activities and plans relating in any way to consolidation of the Department's maintenance facilities and their personnel and equipment.
Patron - Kilgore

F HB 1783

Traffic warning systems. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation, as quickly as practicable, to implement traffic warning systems, operated by private sector businesses, that will provide subscribers, via personal digital assistant devices and other wireless telecommunications technologies, with real-time information concerning traffic congestion, incidents, and other information necessary or convenient to users of the highways of the Commonwealth.
Patron - Cosgrove

F HB 1807

Access to certain highways. Prohibits the Virginia Department of Transportation from closing or otherwise impeding ingress to or egress from Cedar Green Road and Virginia Route 28 North in Loudoun County until all planned improvements on the Virginia Route 625 and Virginia Route 846 interchanges have been completed and Shaw Road between its intersection with Cedar Green Road and Virginia Route 846 (Sterling Boulevard) is widened from two travel lanes to four travel lanes exclusive of any turn lanes and in no case sooner than November 1, 2007.
Patron - Poisson

F HB 1842

Dumping on highway, right-of-way or private property; penalty. Allows, in the event of dumping from a motor vehicle, the court, in lieu of confinement, to suspend the convicted person's driving privileges for up to 12 months and assign such person to clean up litter on roadways or streams or to work in recycling for up to 250 hours of community service.
Patron - Kilgore

F HB 1869

Littering on highways; community service; penalty. Requires any person convicted of littering on any highway to perform a mandatory minimum of 30 hours of community service, administered by the local law-enforcement agency, picking up litter/trash while wearing a blaze orange vest with the phrase "I AM A LITTERBUG." Unsuccessful completion shall result in a misdemeanor conviction of up to 12 months in jail and/or a fine of $2,500.
Patron - Wittman

F HB 1886

Secondary system highways. Prohibits taking additional streets into the state secondary highway system on or after July 1, 2007, unless they are within an area subject to control by a homeowners' association. This bill was incorporated into HB 2227.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 1893

Federal "transportation enhancement" grants; distribution. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall allocate and apportion such funds among the nine construction districts on the basis of population.
Patron - Albo

F HB 1999

Hampton Roads Bridge and Tunnel Authority. Establishes the Hampton Roads Bridge and Tunnel Authority and transfers from VDOT to the Authority control of and responsibility for the James River Bridge, the Monitor-Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel (Interstate Route 664 bridge-tunnel across/beneath Hampton Roads between Newport News and Suffolk), the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (Interstate Route 64 and U.S. Route 60 bridge-tunnel across/beneath Hampton Roads between Hampton and Norfolk), the Midtown Tunnel (U.S. Route 58 tunnel beneath the Elizabeth River between Norfolk and Portsmouth), the Downtown Tunnel (Interstate Route 264 tunnel beneath the Elizabeth River between Norfolk and Portsmouth), the Interstate Route 64 bridge over the Elizabeth River in Chesapeake, and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel (U.S. Route 13 bridge-tunnel across/beneath the Chesapeake Bay between Virginia Beach and Northampton County). The bill allows the Authority to impose and collect tolls for the use of these facilities. The Authority's creation is subject to an affirmative vote of six or more of the local governing bodies of localities embraced by the Authority. Any local governing body that has not voted on participation in the Authority by January 1, 2008, will be deemed to have voted in favor of participation. The bill also provides that nothing in the measure is to be construed to authorize the Authority to impose or collect any tax or fee except for the authorized tolls, nor are the bill's provisions to be construed as permitting the imposition and collection of any tax or fee for the benefit of the Authority by any local government represented on the Authority. The bill additionally provides that on or before July 1, 2008, every agency of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision or instrumentality thereof having control of or day-to-day responsibility for the operation of any toll facility in the Commonwealth shall take all necessary actions to ensure that every toll facility under its control is capable of fully automated electronic operation.
Patron - Suit

F HB 2049

Annual VDOT report on secondary highway system maintenance. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation to study and annually prepare and disseminate a report on maintenance of the state secondary highway system and treatment of secondary highway system components in the Department's asset management system.
Patron - McQuigg

F HB 2164

TransDominion Express Commission. Establishes the TransDominion Express Commission to be responsible, within the TransDominion Corridor, for identifying needed construction, reconstruction, improvements of or repairs to railroads and their facilities and equipment to provide enhanced passenger rail service coordinated with freight rail opportunities within the Corridor.
Patron - Valentine

F HB 2187

High-occupancy vehicle lanes; penalties. Increases fines for drivers in the Hampton Roads Planning District in violation of HOV lane restrictions; mirrors fines for the Eighth Planning District.
Patron - Miller, P.J.

F HB 2205

Commonwealth Transportation Board; Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner. Provides for election of the non-at-large members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board by majority vote of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly. The bill also provides for election of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, with the consent of the Governor, for a term of four years. In the event of a vacancy, an Acting Commissioner would be appointed by the Governor until the vacancy is filled by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The salary of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner would be fixed by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, unless it is set by the General Assembly in the appropriation act.
Patron - Wardrup

F HB 2207

Toll facility technologies. Requires that, beginning July 1, 2008, every agency of the Commonwealth or any of its political subdivisions or instrumentalities that have control of or day-to-day responsibility for the operation of any toll facility take all necessary actions to ensure that every newly constructed toll facility or toll lane under its control is capable of fully automated electronic operation, employing technologies and procedures that permit the collection of tolls from users of the facility without requiring vehicles using the facility to reduce their speed below the speed of traffic approaching the facility. An entity operating a toll facility that substantially upgrades its equipment or substantially renovates its facility after July 1, 2008, must comply with the provisions of this bill. The provisions of this bill also apply to any non-governmental or quasi-governmental entities operating a toll facility under a comprehensive agreement entered into, pursuant to the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995, on or after January 1, 2008. The bill also requires that the Virginia Department of Transportation, on or before January 1, 2008, submit a written report to the General Assembly on its plans to create opportunities to enhance mobility and free-flowing traffic on Department-controlled toll facilities by embracing technological advances.
Patron - Wardrup

F HB 2208

Transfer of control of certain toll facilities. Provides that no agreement or contract to transfer responsibility from an agency or institution of the Commonwealth for control, maintenance, and/or operation of any toll facility controlled, maintained and/or operated by such agency or institution of the Commonwealth to any other public or private entity shall be entered into by the Commonwealth or any agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision thereof without prior legislative authorization from the General Assembly.
Patron - Wardrup

F HB 2209

Reassignment of components of state primary, secondary, and urban highway systems. Requires that the Virginia Department of Transportation, with the advice and consent of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, on or before January 1, 2008, to reconsider and reassign the various highways, bridges, and other facilities comprising the state primary, secondary, and urban highway systems so that the assignment of components to such systems is based, to the maximum degree practicable, solely upon the components' functional classification.
Patron - Wardrup

F HB 2222

Agreements between localities for construction and operation of toll facilities. Provides that a single county may construct a toll road within its borders and also provides that counties, cities, and towns connected by bodies of water are considered to be contiguous.
Patron - Wardrup

F HB 2223

Components of state highway systems. Requires that the Virginia Department of Transportation, with the advice and consent of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, on or before January 1, 2008, reconsider and reassign the various highways, bridges, and other facilities comprising the state primary, secondary, and urban highway systems so that the assignment of components to such systems is based, to the maximum degree practicable, solely upon the components' functional classification.
Patron - Wardrup

F HB 2227

F HB 2232

Rail Enhancement Fund; local contribution. Provides that for any funds to be expended, the local governing body of each locality within which the project is located shall contribute 1% of the total cost of the project.
Patron - Nutter

F HB 2233

Expenditures from the Rail Enhancement Fund. Provides that a resolution from each local governing body of each locality within which a portion of a project is located approving the project must be received before funds may be expended.
Patron - Nutter

F HB 2234

Rail Enhancement Fund; creation of a five-year plan. Directs the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation to create a five-year plan outlining expenditures from the Fund. The plan shall be submitted and updated at least once every two years for approval by the General Assembly.
Patron - Nutter

F HB 2280

Primary system highway construction funds allocation. Allocates primary system highway construction funds among the nine highway construction districts on the basis of the ratio of vehicle miles traveled on primary highways divided by the lane miles of primary highways in each highway construction district, weighted 90%, and a need factor, weighted 10%.
Patron - Watts

F HB 2281

Highway maintenance allocations. Provides for allocation of highway maintenance funds among the primary, secondary, and urban systems in the same manner as allocations of construction funds.
Patron - Watts

F HB 2288

VDOT regulations. Requires that no regulation of the Virginia Department of Transportation, the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, or the Commonwealth Transportation Board can require separate "as-built" permits for every utility located within a newly dedicated highway right-of-way of any component of the primary or secondary highway system or the Interstate Highway System. At the option of the Department's district administrator, developers must be permitted to submit recorded composite plats that contain all necessary utility information, coded as required for clarity, and shown for the individual plats of the composite, as opposed to individual plats.
Patron - Watts

F HB 2310

State funding for portions of certain local transportation projects. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall make an allocation to any locality, not to exceed the lesser of $25 million or 33% of the cost of the project, to be used by the locality for a transportation project, provided that (i) the locality has issued or will issue bonds for transportation purposes in the fiscal year in which the allocation is sought in an amount that exceeds the amount of the state allocation; (ii) the locality has sufficient local funds, which, together with the state allocation, will complete the project; and (iii) the transportation project for which the allocation is sought is determined by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, compared with other requests for such allocations, to be more likely to relieve severe traffic congestion, according to criteria and procedures for making application for funds that shall be developed by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Total state funds allocated by the Board for this program shall not exceed $50 million in any one fiscal year
Patron - Lingamfelter

F HB 2340

Highway signs in memory of DUI victims. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to provide for installation and maintenance of official highway signs in memory of persons killed in accidents involving intoxicated drivers.
Patron - Abbitt

F HB 2379

Pavement markings indicating school bus stops. Provides that local governing bodies may and VDOT, upon the written request of a local governing body, must mark the pavement of highways to indicate school bus stops. Wherever such pavements are so marked, access to these areas must be kept clear, and must not be obstructed as the result of snow removal operations.
Patron - May

F HB 2411

Highway "revenue-sharing" funds. Requires that, from annual allocations of state funds for the maintenance, improvement, construction, or reconstruction of the systems of state highways, the Commonwealth Transportation Board make an equivalent matching allocation to any county, city, or town for designations by the governing body of no less than $1 million in county, city, or town general funds for use by the county, city, or town to construct, maintain, or improve the highways. The bill further eliminates the first and second priorities for funding under the "revenue-sharing" program and provides that allocations will be made first to the acceleration of an existing project in the Six-Year Improvement Program or the locality's capital plans; and then, from any funds remaining, to any other request that has a matching allocation from the governing body. Finally, the measure converts the present annual $50 million "cap" on the "revenue-sharing" program to a floor.
Patron - Athey

F HB 2440

Commonwealth Transportation Investment Fund. Creates the Commonwealth Transportation Investment Fund and dedicates to it one-third of all insurance license tax revenues, to be used for transportation projects throughout the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth Transportation Board is authorized to issue revenue bonds provided that the total face amount of bonds issued in any fiscal year shall not exceed two-thirds of the amount of insurance license tax revenues estimated to be dedicated in that year. The proceeds of the bonds shall be allocated among various transportation modes according to the formula under current law. All other revenues in the Fund not needed to pay debt service on the bonds are allocated for transportation construction projects among the several highway systems of the Commonwealth according to the formula under current law. The particular transportation projects to be funded shall be determined by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The bill also increases from $800 million to $1.2 billion the amount of Commonwealth of Virginia Federal Highway Reimbursement Anticipation Notes that were authorized in 2000 and dedicated to transportation projects, and makes other changes to transportation projects that were authorized in 2000.
Patron - Frederick

F HB 2441

High-occupancy vehicle lanes hours of operation. Establishes hours of operation for HOV lanes along I-95 and I-395 in Northern Virginia.
Patron - Frederick

F HB 2444

HOV lanes. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, for HOV lanes designated by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, to develop and implement a process whereby (i) the times of day during which HOV restrictions are in place may be applicable either earlier or later on any day when traffic volume on the affected facility increases markedly either prior to or after the hours when HOV restrictions would otherwise apply and (ii) the direction of traffic flow on HOV facilities with reversible lanes may be reversed at any time when so doing would expedite the movement of traffic on parallel lanes not subject to HOV restrictions.
Patron - Frederick

F HB 2461

HOT lanes. Revises the procedures and penalties involved with HOT lane enforcement.
Patron - Rust

F HB 2472

Statewide Transportation Plan. Requires that the plan promote economic development and include quantifiable and achievable goals relating to congestion reduction and safety, transit and high-occupancy vehicle facility use, job-to-housing ratios, job and housing access to transit and pedestrian facilities, air quality, and vehicle miles traveled. The bill further requires that the Commonwealth Transportation Board consider such goals in evaluating and selecting transportation improvement projects.
Patron - Wardrup

F HB 2475

Highway Revenue-Sharing Funds. Eliminates the four-tier priority system for distributions of so-called Revenue-Sharing Funds to localities. The bill also eliminates the requirement that, for contracts administered by VDOT, payment of the local match requirement within 30 days of written notice from VDOT of its intent to proceed. The bill eliminates the requirement that no more than one-half of a locality's match may take the form of proffers. The bill requires that the Commonwealth Transportation Board annually allocate at least $50 million to this program.
Patron - Crockett-Stark

F HB 2476

Secondary highway system; rural additions. Allows any road in Wythe County to be taken into the secondary system as a rural addition if such road was recorded in the Wythe County Circuit Court Clerk's Office prior to November 1, 1999. This bill was incorporated into HB 2227.
Patron - Crockett-Stark

F HB 2496

Transportation; supplemental funding for Northern Virginia. Permits any city or county that is within the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (Authority), to impose two additional local fees and taxes to go to the Authority, and also have the Authority receive the revenue from three additional state taxes imposed in the region. The bill assures that none of the additional revenues shall be used to calculate or reduce transportation funding or be used to calculate or reduce any other funding to the applicable localities, including funding for education. The bill also repeals the authority for any locality imposing the two additional local fees and taxes to impose a local income tax. The two additional local fees or taxes are (i) a rental car transportation impact fee of 2% and (ii) a transportation impact commercial real property tax of 0.3%. The three additional state regional taxes are (a) a fee of $100 on the initial issuance of a driver's license on residents of Northern Virginia, (b) a hotel/motel transportation impact fee of 2% for rooms in Northern Virginia, and (c) a congestion relief fee on the seller for each deed for real estate recorded in Northern Virginia at the rate of $0.40 for each $100 of value. The three state regional taxes are imposed only in those localities that impose the two additional local fees or taxes. The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority shall determine the transportation projects to be funded and shall use the additional revenues for the primary benefit of those counties and cities that are imposing the two new local fees and taxes as follows: 1. Pay any debt service due on bonds issued by the Authority from the additional regional state fees imposed by the bill; 2. The next $50 million received in each fiscal year shall be distributed to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to provide funds to the Authority as may be required under federal law for the payment of certain federal funds to WMATA for capital improvements. The Authority shall make such annual distribution from such revenues (1) only to the extent required under federal law for the payment of federal funds to WMATA; (2) only if the matching federal funds are exclusive of, and in addition to, the amount of other federal funds appropriated to the Commonwealth for transportation; and (3) only if such other federal funds are in an amount not less than the amount of such funds appropriated to the Commonwealth in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007. For each year after 2018 this $50 million shall be used for the expansion of Metro or other rail service into Prince William County; 3. The next $30 million received in each fiscal year shall be distributed to the Virginia Railway Express for capital improvements including, but not limited to, construction of parking, dedicated rail on the Fredericksburg line, rolling stock, expanded service to Prince William, and service as may be needed as a result of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission regarding Fort Belvoir; 4. At least 25% of the remaining revenues each year shall be dedicated for use on urban and secondary road construction and improvement. Such funds shall be distributed on a pro rata basis with each locality's share being the total taxes and fees newly authorized in the bill generated or attributable to the locality divided by the total taxes and fees newly authorized in the bill generated or attributable to all localities embraced by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; 5. At least 20% of the remaining revenues each year shall be distributed to the localities embraced by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority on a pro rata basis with each locality's share being the total taxes and fees newly authorized in the bill generated or attributable to the locality divided by the total taxes and fees newly authorized in the bill generated or attributable to all localities embraced by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. The revenues distributed shall be used solely for transportation capital improvements and public transportation purposes as determined solely by the applicable locality. None of this revenue may be used to repay debt issued before January 1, 2008. At the request of any county embraced by the Authority, all state secondary road construction funding due such county shall be transferred to such county, provided that the county assumes full responsibility for planning and constructing its secondary roads. Each locality shall provide annually to the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority sufficient documentation as required by the Authority showing that the funds were used as required; 6. Beginning at the time that phase two of the Dulles Rail project is constructed, at least $20 million shall be dedicated annually for the Dulles Rail project; and 7. To construct transportation projects in the localities that are members of the Authority that are imposing the new local fees authorized by the bill, as may be determined by the Authority in consultation with members of the governing bodies of the localities embraced by the Authority, and members of the General Assembly representing any locality embraced by the Authority. Localities that are not imposing the two new local fees authorized by the bill may not participate in determining the services and projects to be funded. The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority is authorized to issue bonds provided that the debt service does not exceed the amount of revenue provided by the three new regional state taxes.
Patron - Albo

F HB 2655

Highway maintenance payments to counties that have withdrawn or may withdraw from the state secondary highway system. Revises maintenance payments to counties that have withdrawn from the state secondary highway system prior to January 1, 2007, and provides for similar payments to counties that withdraw in the future.
Patron - Lingamfelter

F HB 2682

Local Partnership Programs. Provides that when Local Partnership Programs are established and fully funded by the General Assembly in the general appropriation act, the Department of Transportation must ensure that Departmental funds are transmitted periodically to the locality with such frequency and on dates and in amounts that at no time will the locality be obligated to fund any portion of the project, pending reimbursement by the Department.
Patron - Frederick

F HB 2706

Insurance license tax revenue; dedicated for transportation. Dedicates all state insurance license tax revenue for transportation projects in each highway construction district throughout the Commonwealth on a pro rata basis pursuant to the amount of the recordation tax attributable to the localities in each such district. The bill also creates a transportation program for each highway construction district (similar to the Northern Virginia Transportation Program) as the vehicle by which the revenues are distributed. In addition, the revenues may be used to issue bonds annually with a face value up to two-thirds of the amount of revenue estimated to be dedicated for each respective fiscal year, with the bond proceeds distributed to each transportation program on the same pro rata basis. For all the transportation programs other than that for Northern Virginia and that for Hampton Roads, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall determine the transportation projects to be funded. The transportation projects to be funded in Northern Virginia shall be as determined by the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. The transportation projects to be funded in Hampton Roads shall be as determined by the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Planning Organization with the advise and consent of the members of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees residing in Planning District 23.
Patron - Hugo

F HB 2779

Virginia Department of Transportation to repair dam. Directs the Virginia Department of Transportation to repair the Haley's Mill Pond Dam and that portion of Virginia Route 629 thereon in Middlesex County.
Patron - Morgan

F HB 2795

Subdivision streets. Provides that on and after July 1, 2007, no street in any county will be taken into the state secondary highway system for maintenance purposes unless it is classified by the Department as a local collector road. Other roads that, prior to July 1, 2007, would have been taken into the state secondary highway system will be classified by the Department as local subdivision roads and will not be taken into the state secondary highway system unless they are within an established urban development area. This bill was incorporated into HB 2227.
Patron - Marshall, R.G.

F HB 2813

Transportation Trust Fund; dedication of certain surplus revenue. Dedicates to the Transportation Trust Fund 50% of any annual general fund surplus revenues remaining after any required deposits to the Revenue Stabilization Fund and to the Virginia Water Quality Improvement Fund. This bill was incorporated into HB 3202.
Patron - Sickles

F HB 2881

Insurance license tax revenue; dedication to Priority Transportation Fund. Dedicates the revenues from the motor vehicle insurance license tax in each fiscal year to the Priority Transportation Fund and repeals the current dedication to the Fund of one-third of the estimated revenues from all insurance license taxes. This bill was incorporated into HB 3202.
Patron - Phillips

F HB 2886

Leland Branham Memorial Bridge. Designates the Virginia Route 72 bridge over Tom's Creek near Bondtown in Scott County the "Leland Branham Memorial Bridge."
Patron - Phillips

F HB 2888

"Revenue-sharing" funds. Repeals provision for use of so-called "revenue-sharing" funding of certain highway projects.
Patron - Phillips

F HB 2922

Annual VDOT statistical report. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation to prepare and disseminate an annual statistical report containing highway and arterial roadway levels of service; the total number of vehicle miles traveled and the rate of growth in vehicle miles traveled; vehicle miles traveled per capita and the rate of change in vehicle miles traveled per capita; vehicle trips made and the rate of growth in vehicle trips made; vehicle trips made per capita and the rate of change in vehicle trips made per capita; emissions of nitrogen oxide, volatile organic compounds, and particulate matter; modal shares of total trips made for driving, transit, carpooling, telecommuting, walking, and bicycling; and the number of jobs and residences within one-quarter and one-half mile of locations where transit service is available at least every 15 minutes during peak travel hours. These data are to be reported for each planning district and/or region embraced within a metropolitan planning organization and on a statewide basis. Reports summarizing the data shall be disseminated to the General Assembly and to the Commonwealth Transportation Board in September of each year and be posted on the Department's website.
Patron - Shannon

F HB 2941

F HB 2944

Powers of CTC. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner (CTC), in order to achieve efficiency, to outsource or privatize any of VDOT's functions that might reasonably be provided by the private sector. This bill was incorporated into HB 2209.
Patron - Miller, J.H.

F HB 3057

HOV lanes. Extends until July 1, 2008, the sunset on use of HOV facilities by vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates. This bill does not change the treatment of clean special fuel vehicles using I-95 and I-395. This bill was incorporated into HB 2132.
Patron - Plum

F HB 3074

Certain signage on interstates. Directs the Department of Transportation to erect attraction signs on interstates directing travelers to the attraction using a connecting interstate when the distance to the attraction using the connecting interstate is within 15 miles of the attraction sign.
Patron - Fralin

F HB 3106

Composition of RMA Board. Revises the composition of the Board of Directors of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority (RMA).
Patron - Nixon

F HB 3142

Tolls; motorcycles. Allows motorcycles toll-free use of VDOT-controlled toll facilities.
Patron - Reid

F HB 3159

Secondary highway system maintenance; creation of urban transportation service districts; impact fees. Provides for the creation of urban transportation service districts and provides a mechanism whereby counties that resume responsibility for maintaining all or portions of the state secondary highway system within their boundaries before July 1, 2010, will receive an amount equal to the urban allocation per lane mile for the area within the district for purposes of road maintenance. In addition, such locality shall receive an amount equal to the difference between the urban allocation and what VDOT would be spending within the service district if not for the creation of such district. The money received by a locality shall come from a dedicated percentage of the state sales tax collected in the locality. The boundaries of urban transportation service districts are to be agreed upon by both the local governing body of the locality and by the Virginia Department of Transportation. Provision is also made for transferring VDOT equipment and employees to localities that adopt such districts. In addition, localities that establish an urban transportation service district shall have expanded impact fee authority that includes roads, schools and other public facilities. However, such authority may only be exercised in areas outside of urban transportation service districts and on parcels that have previously been rezoned for by-right residential development. Furthermore, localities that have established urban transportation service districts may provide for the denial or modification of an application for rezoning when the existing and future transportation network that will serve the proposed development is inadequate to handle the anticipated transportation impact of the proposed development. This bill was incorporated into HB 3197.
Patron - Frederick

F HB 3173

Commonwealth Transportation Board; display of the United States flag on interstate highways. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to establish rules and regulations providing for the display of the flag of the United States along interstate highways in the Commonwealth by military veterans' organizations. These rules and regulations shall include, but not be limited to, provisions relating to the (i) size of the flag to be displayed, (ii) proper illumination, and (iii) the manner of placement of the display so as to ensure proper respect for the flag and to prevent any road hazard or distraction to vehicular traffic.
Patron - Hugo

F HB 3179

Toll facilities in Hampton Roads. Provides for imposition and collection of tolls for use of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel, the Midtown Tunnel, the Downtown Tunnel, and US 460 from, roughly, New Bohemia to Bowers Hill.
Patron - Gear

F SB 752

Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner. Provides for election of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner by the Commonwealth Transportation Board with the consent of the Governor for a term of four years. In the event of a vacancy, an Acting Commissioner would be appointed by the Governor until the vacancy is filled by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The salary of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner would be fixed by the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
Patron - Williams

F SB 753

Commonwealth Transportation Board. Provides for election of the non-at-large members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board by majority vote of the members elected to each house of the General Assembly.
Patron - Williams

F SB 761

Secondary highway maintenance payments to Henrico County. Beginning with the fiscal year starting July 1, 2007, increases to $7,201 per lane-mile the secondary highway maintenance payments made to Henrico County. The increase would fix the secondary highway maintenance base payments to Henrico County at the same level as such payments to Arlington County.
Patron - Stosch

F SB 792

Road maintenance payments to Henrico County. Fixes maintenance payments to Henrico County for the 2007-2008 fiscal year at the same amount paid to Arlington County for maintenance in such year.
Patron - Stosch

F SB 812

"Revenue-sharing" funds for highway systems in certain counties, cities, and towns. Provides that, from additional revenues made available by the General Assembly after January 1, 2007, and appropriated for the improvement, construction, or reconstruction of the systems of state highways, the Commonwealth Transportation Board must make an equivalent matching allocation to any county, city, or town for designations by the governing body of up to $1 million in county, city, or town general funds for use by the county, city, or town to construct or improve the highway systems within such county, city, or town. After adopting a resolution supporting the action, the governing body may request revenue-sharing funds to construct or improve a highway system located in another locality, between two or more localities, or to bring subdivision streets, used as such prior to July 1, 1992, up to standards sufficient to qualify them for inclusion in the state primary and secondary system of highways. All requests for funding shall be accompanied by a prioritized listing of specific projects. In allocating these funds, the Board must give priority (i) first when such project is administered by the county, city, or town, either directly or by contract with another entity, (ii) second when such county, city, or town commits more local funding than the amount of revenue-sharing funding requested; and (iii) third when the allocation will accelerate an existing project in the Six-Year Improvement Program or the locality's capital plans. Any funds remaining may be applied to any other project that requires an equivalent matching allocation from the governing body. Regardless of implementation, funds allocated under this program must be utilized within two subsequent fiscal years of allocation, or earlier. Any revenue-sharing funds remaining after two subsequent fiscal years of allocation may be reallocated at the discretion of the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
Patron - Ruff

F SB 901

Highway safety corridor; U.S. Route 13. Directs the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation to designate U.S. Route 13 in Northampton and Accomack Counties a highway safety corridor.
Patron - Rerras

F SB 941

Annual maintenance reports by the Virginia Department of Transportation. Directs the Virginia Department of Transportation to prepare and disseminate annual reports projecting a three-year maintenance schedule for each planning district. This bill was incorporated into SB 1128.
Patron - Ticer

F SB 1008

HOT lanes. Revises the procedures and penalties involved with HOT lane enforcement.
Patron - Saslaw

F SB 1026

State secondary highway system; local-option retail sales taxes on motor fuels. Requires counties with populations of 50,000 or more, according to the last preceding U.S. census, to take over from VDOT responsibility for planning, construction, operation, and maintenance of state secondary highway system components within their boundaries prior to July 1, 2012. This would apply to the Counties of Campbell, Washington, Fauquier, York, Henry, Frederick, Bedford, Pittsylvania, Augusta, Rockingham, Albemarle, Montgomery, Roanoke, Hanover, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Loudoun, Chesterfield, Prince William, and Fairfax. Additionally, the bill provides, on a local-option basis, for a two percent retail sales tax on motor fuels in counties that take over responsibilities for state secondary highways, the proceeds of which would be used for secondary highway planning, construction, operation, and maintenance.
Patron - O'Brien

F SB 1028

F SB 1086

Revenue-sharing funds for systems in certain counties, cities, and towns. Eliminates language in present law setting priorities for distribution of revenue-sharing funds. The bill also provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall allocate at least $50 million each fiscal year to satisfy all requests by localities for matching funds. This bill was incorporated into SB 812.
Patron - Puckett

F SB 1101

Hampton Roads Toll Facility Authority. Establishes the Hampton Roads Toll Facility Authority and transfers from VDOT to the Authority control of and responsibility for eight specifically named facilities in Hampton Roads and allows the Authority to impose and collect tolls for use of those facilities.
Patron - Williams

F SB 1102

Adjustment or relocation of billboard signs. Provides that the owner of a billboard situated on land acquired due to widening, construction, or reconstruction by purchase or by exercise of eminent domain may relocate the billboard to another location on the same property and may adjust the height or angle of the billboard.
Patron - Williams

F SB 1163

Transportation Trust Fund; additional sources of revenues. Dedicates for transportation purposes all insurance license tax revenues relating to automobile insurance policies. The bill also creates a new source of revenue for the transportation. Upon conviction of certain dangerous driving offenses and traffic infractions for which the Department of Motor Vehicles assigns six demerit points, a court shall order the offender to make a payment into the Transportation Trust Fund. The court shall collect the payments on behalf of the Commonwealth and remit the payments to the Fund. Finally, the bill dedicates the unallocated funds in the first year of the 2006-2008 budget to the Transportation Trust Fund.
Patron - Bell

F SB 1201

F SB 1259

F SB 1260

Urban and secondary highway system construction allocations. Revises the formulas for distribution of urban and secondary highway system construction funds.
Patron - Herring

F SB 1299

George P. Coleman Bridge; tolls. Requires that the tolls be removed from the George P. Coleman Bridge.
Patron - Norment

F SB 1330

Installation of signs requiring that headlights be lighted. Requires VDOT to install at the approach to every tunnel a sign requiring that vehicles display lighted headlights regardless of the time of day or weather conditions. Failure to obey these signs is a secondary offense, but punishable as a traffic infraction.
Patron - Blevins

F SB 1348

Rail Enhancement Fund. Allows projects proposed by the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation and approved by the Rail Advisory Board to be exempt from the 30% match requirement.
Patron - Rerras

F SB 1389

F SB 1414

Transportation; supplemental funding for Northern Virginia. Authorizes localities in Northern Virginia to impose additional local fees for transportation purposes. This bill was incorporated into SB 1417.
Patron - Devolites Davis

F SB 1415

Transportation; supplemental funding for Hampton Roads. Authorizes localities in Hampton Roads to impose additional local fees for transportation purposes. This bill was incorporated into SB 1417.
Patron - Stolle

F SB 1420

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