Highways, Bridges and Ferries

Highways, Bridges and Ferries

P Passed

P HB1496

J. Kenneth Robinson Parkway. Designates Virginia Route 37 in Frederick County the "Congressman J. Kenneth Robinson Parkway." Same as SB 729.

Patron - Sherwood

P HB1599

Property acquired by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner through condemnation. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to transfer to the municipality title to land the Commissioner has acquired by condemnation at the request of the municipality.

Patron - Parrish

P HB1839

Lord Fairfax Highway. Designates U. S. 340 in Clarke County the "Lord Fairfax Highway."

Patron - May

P HB1840

Secondary roads; "pave-in-place" program. Extends the "pave-in-place" program for secondary roads in certain counties for an additional two years (to July 1, 2001).

Patron - May

P HB1888

Ann Goode Cooper Highway. Designates Virginia Route 689 in Scott County the "Ann Goode Cooper Highway."

Patron - Kilgore

P HB1916

Highway signs. Requires the installation of highway signs providing directions to certain educational institutions.

Patron - Albo

P HB1994

Removal of certain signs. Provides that limitations on agreements between the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner and the Spotsylvania County Board of Supervisors on the removal of certain illegal signs from highway rights-of-way do not apply to agreements between the Commissioner and other local governing bodies for the removal of illegal signs from highway rights-of-way. Both the provisions limited to Spotsylvania and those applicable elsewhere expire on July 1, 2000.

Patron - Rollison

P HB2073

Definitions of certain terms. Adds § 33.1-223.2:2 to provide definitions of the terms "construction or reconstruction," "highway," and "increased capacity" as they are used in Chapter 22 (§ 56-556 et seq.) of Title 56 of the Code of Virginia.

Patron - Robinson

P HB2095

Clyde Bowling Bridge; Jessica J. Cheney Memorial Bridge. Designates the Virginia Route 102 bridges at Falls Mills in Tazewell County the "Clyde Bowling Bridge" and designates the Virginia Route 610 bridge over Interstate Route 95 in Stafford County the "Jessica J. Cheney Memorial Bridge."

Patron - Tate

P HB2139

VDOT projects. Requires, with limited exceptions, use of English units of measure in design, advertisement, construction, and planning of VDOT projects. The word "action" on line 12 should be "section." A proposed amendment to correct the error is enclosed.

Patron - Reid

P HB2195

Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB). Adds the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation as a nonvoting member of the CTB. This bill is identical to SB 1119.

Patron - Rhodes

P HB2204

HOV lanes. Prohibits designation of HOV lanes on any portion of Va-44, I-64, or I-264 within Virginia Beach, Norfolk, or Chesapeake. The bill becomes effective when VDOT receives notice from the federal government that this measure will not require the Commonwealth to repay federal funds used for construction of these HOV lanes. This bill is identical to SB 1068.

Patron - Croshaw

P HB2238

Town street standards. Affords greater latitude in the standards applicable to streets constructed and maintained by VDOT in certain towns.

Patron - May

P HB2303

Secondary roads; "pave-in-place" program. Extends the "pave-in-place" program for secondary roads in certain counties for an additional two years (to July 1, 2001).

Patron - Davis

P HB2450

Robert S. Hornsby Memorial Bridge. Designates the Virginia Route 199 bridge across Longhill Road in James City County the "Robert S. Hornsby Memorial Bridge."

Patron - Grayson

P HB2515

Curb ramps. Amends the provision requiring curb ramps at intersections to provide that such ramps are required only when they connect to accessible routes for pedestrian use.

Patron - Wardrup

P HB2592

VDOT contracts. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, when he publicly opens and announces bids on VDOT contracts are announced, to announce whether the low bid exceeds the Department's estimates. The words "and reenact" have been omitted from the title of the bill. A draft amendment to correct this error is attached.

Patron - Wilkins

P HB2652

Highway signs. Requires VDOT to develop and implement a program of signs providing directions to sites of interest to tourists.

Patron - Katzen

P HB2666

Union Mills Road. Designates a portion of Union Mill Road in Fairfax County as a scenic highway and Virginia byway.

Patron - O'Brien

P SB729

J. Kenneth Robinson Parkway. Designates Virginia Route 37 in Frederick County the "Congressman J. Kenneth Robinson Parkway."

Patron - Potts

P SB734

Highway projects; utility relocation costs. Provides for inclusion of utility relocation costs in highway project costs when the utilities belong to certain consumer-owned companies. .

Patron - Marye

P SB746

Clyde Bowling Bridge. Designates the Virginia Route 102 bridge at Falls Mills in Tazewell County the "Clyde Bowling Bridge."

Patron - Puckett

P SB940

Disposition of land by VDOT. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to notify affected mayors and chairmen of boards of supervisors of Commonwealth Transportation Board or Virginia Department of Transportation decisions to dispose of surplus real property.

Patron - Mims

P SB956

I-64 weighing station. Requires the expeditious relocation of the VDOT weighing station on I-64 in Henrico County (Bottoms Bridge scales). This bill is nearly identical to HB 2420. Insofar as neither this bill nor HB 2420 is a codified act, the differences are not meaningful.

Patron - Stosch

P SB1063

Outdoor advertising. Eliminates exemption from prohibition on signs with changeable messages presently granted to "public service messages" and, instead, allows changeable message signs whose messages do not change more than once every four seconds. Signs with running animation are prohibited.

Patron - Watkins

P SB1068

Patron - Stolle

P SB1119

Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB). Adds the Director of the Department of Rail and Public Transportation as a nonvoting member of the CTB. This bill is a duplicate of House Bill No. 2195. This bill is identical to HB 2195.

Patron - Whipple

P SB1144

Motorcycles. Provides that the Commonwealth Transportation Board, the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, and the Virginia Department of Transportation shall not restrict access of motorcycles to transportation facilities. This bill is identical to HB 2758.

Patron - Houck

P SB1198

Location of highway routes. Requires that VDOT's route location hearings be conducted in a "traditional format" that allows citizens an opportunity to address their comments directly to VDOT representatives in a structured, formal process. VDOT is allowed to hold "open forums" as well, but these are to be used to supplement traditional, formal hearings, not to replace them.

Patron - Houck

F Failed

F HB1715

Virginia Highway Infrastructure Relief Fund. Creates the Virginia Highway Infrastructure Relief Fund. This Fund is to consist of 10 percent of the annual general fund revenue collections that are in excess of the official estimates in the general appropriation act and 10 percent of any unreserved general fund balance at the close of each fiscal year. The Fund is to be used for highway construction only and allocated in the same manner as other highway construction funds are allocated.

Patron - Rust

F HB1721

Secondary roads; "pave-in-place" program. Eliminates the July 1, 1999, "sunset" on the "pave-in-place" program for secondary roads in certain counties.

Patron - Wilkins

F HB1875

Highway signs; soil and water conservation districts. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to develop standards for signs indicating soil and water conservation districts. Such signs would be erected by VDOT upon request of a soil and water district commission with costs borne by the soil and water conservation district commission.

Patron - Deeds

F HB1927

Roadside memorials. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) to establish design and installation criteria for roadside memorials to persons killed in highway crashes; apportions costs between VDOT and persons requesting the memorials; and prohibits erection of unauthorized memorials.

Patron - Cantor

F HB1947

Roadside commemorative markers. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to develop standards for installation of roadside markers to commemorate law-enforcement and VDOT personnel killed in the line of duty along public highways in the Commonwealth and prohibits erection of other roadside memorials.

Patron - Howell

F HB1979

Highway signs. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation, when so requested by any tourist destination in Virginia that attracts more than 100,000 visitors per year, to install, along four-lane divided highways, signs providing directions to that destination. All costs are to be borne by the tourist destination that requests the signs.

Patron - Davies

F HB1983

Tolls for motorcycles. Prohibits charging motorcycles higher tolls if they have sidecars or are towing trailers or both. This would apply equally to facilities using individual toll-takers, mechanical toll-collection machines, or automatic vehicle identification systems, but would not apply to facilities whose bond indentures provide otherwise.

Patron - Davies

F HB2020

Virginia Department of Transportation contracts. Requires that, with some exceptions, VDOT contracts with cost overruns of more than 10 percent be cancelled and rebid.

Patron - Rollison

F HB2031

Acquisition of real property by Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). Requires that before VDOT can acquire certain real property it must provide certain notice of its intention to do so, offer to hold a hearing on the acquisition, hold the hearing if asked to do so, and, after the hearing, advise the local governing body within whose jurisdiction the property is located of VDOT's plans (if any) for compensating the locality for the loss of tax base that will result from VDOT's acquisition of the property.

Patron - Moran

F HB2055

Charles L. Waddell Boulevard. Designates Virginia Route 28 between Virginia Route 7 and I-66 "Charles L. Waddell Boulevard."

Patron - Callahan

F HB2072

Patron - Robinson

F HB2100

U.S. Route 58 Corridor Development Program and Fund. Increases the annual amount of state recordation tax revenues dedicated by statute to the U.S. Route 58 Corridor Development Fund from $40 million to $75 million.

Patron - Clement

F HB2133

Secondary roads; "pave-in-place" program. Extends the "pave-in-place" program for secondary roads in certain counties for an additional two years (to July 1, 2001).

Patron - May

F HB2150

Bonds for the Northern Virginia Transportation District Program. Authorizes an additional $104.1 million (from $366.9 million to $471 million) in Commonwealth of Virginia Transportation Revenue Bonds to finance the cost of the projects included in the Northern Virginia Transportation District Program.

Patron - Puller

F HB2184

VDOT; use of consultants. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation to implement recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission in its 1998 "Review of the Use of Consultants by the Virginia Department of Transportation."

Patron - Marshall

F HB2239

Commonwealth of Virginia Mass Transit Bond Act. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue $59,000,000 of Section 9(d) bonds to be used for mass transit.

Patron - Rollison

F HB2287

HOV lanes. Provides a mechanism by which certain vehicles with volunteer rescue squad member or firefighter special licenses can be exempted from vehicle occupancy requirements on HOV lanes in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 16th planning districts, pending completion of the I-66 upgrade and Springfield "Mixing Bowl" Interchange reconstruction.

Patron - Marshall

F HB2346

Patron - Rollison

F HB2371

Highway maintenance and construction; Fairfax County. Provides, if so requested by a resolution adopted by the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and transmitted prior to January 1, 2000, to the Commonwealth Transportation Board, that Fairfax County will be treated as a city for the purpose of highway construction and maintenance, beginning on July 1, 2000; requires the transfer to Fairfax County of land, structures, facilities, equipment, employees, and resources that had been involved with the programs thus transferred to Fairfax county; and provides that this shall not affect highway construction or maintenance contracts entered into prior to the effective date of the act for projects in Fairfax County.

Patron - Hull

F HB2410

Highway construction and maintenance by state employees. Increases from $300,000 to $750,000 the cap on highway maintenance and construction projects that may be carried out by the Commonwealth Transportation Board using state employees.

Patron - Armstrong

F HB2528

Highway construction allocations. Changes the formula for allocating primary system highway construction funds among the construction districts to vehicle-miles traveled weighted 65 percent; primary road lane mileage weighted 20 percent; density of use weighted 10 percent; and need weighted five percent, provided that no district receives an allocation less than it received in fiscal year 1996-97.

Patron - McClure

F HB2634

Location or alteration of routes by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Prescribes a process of information, consultation, decision-making and explanation that must be followed by the Commonwealth Transportation Board in locating, establishing, and altering routes when such projects are estimated to cost more than $1 million.

Patron - Darner

F HB2654

Highway sign. Requires the Virginia Department of Highways to erect signs directing people to canoe launching areas, if such signs are requested by the owner or operator of these types of facilities. The Department is to assume the cost of erecting and maintaining the signs. This bill has been incorporated into HB 2652.

Patron - Katzen

F HB2723

Western Transportation Corridor. Prescribes minimum conditions which the Commonwealth Transportation Board and the Virginia Department of Transportation must meet in order ensure that the process of determining the need for, planning, designing, constructing, and financing the Western Transportation Corridor is orderly, open, and public.

Patron - Marshall

F SB1041

Patron - Quayle

F SB1078

Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project. Prohibits any county, city, or town from suing or expending public funds to enjoin, delay, or contest the project.

Patron - Barry

F SB1097

Patron - Reynolds

F SB1099

Industrial access roads. Exempts a project in Martinsville from the bond forfeiture provisions of the industrial access road program.

Patron - Reynolds

F SB1207

HOV lanes. Extends "sunset" on use of HOV lanes by vehicles with "clean fuel vehicle" license plates (regardless of number of vehicle occupants) from July 1, 1999, to July 1, 2004. This bill has been incorporated into SB 720.

Patron - Barry

F SB1277

Logo sign program. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to promulgate detailed regulations on participation of restaurants in VDOT's roadside logo sign program.

Patron - Potts

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