Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Highways; VDOT to determine periodic quantitative rating on pavement condition, etc. [HB-1885]
Quantitative rating of pavement condition and ride quality of highways. Requires VDOT to determine a quantitative rating on the pavement condition and ride quality of every highway in the primary and secondary state highway systems at least every five years and to post the ratings on its website.
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Highway maintenance funds; basis of allocation. [HB-1884]
Allocation of highway maintenance funds. Provides that highway maintenance funds shall be allocated on the basis of vehicle miles traveled in each highway construction district compared to vehicle miles traveled in the Commonwealth as a whole. However, the bill also allows the Commissioner of Highways to direct funds to specific maintenance projects that he believes are needed to protect public safety, provided he provides written notice to the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Sources of revenue; establishing and adjusting for appropriations of State and its localities. [HB-1878]
Establishing and adjusting sources of revenue for appropriations of the Commonwealth and its localities. Makes several changes to sources of revenue of the Commonwealth: Establishes a five percent tax on motor fuels sales based on the statewide average wholesale price of a gallon of self-serve unleaded regular gasoline. The revenues would be distributed to the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, the Transportation Trust Fund, the Intercity Passenger Rail Operating and Capital Fund, and the localities to be used for transportation purposes. Increases
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Rail transportation; DRPT to purchase land for construction of lines. [HB-1828]
Rail and public transportation. Allows the purchase of land for the construction of railway lines by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation for the purpose of alleviating traffic congestion on highways.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Commonwealth Transportation Board; powers and duties. [HB-1809]
Powers of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB). Limits the ability of the CTB to reallocate funds from certain local highway projects that are inconsistent with the CTB's Statewide Transportation Plan or the Six-Year Improvement Program.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolling transponder fees; prohibits imposition of monthly fee for any month. [HB-1779]
Tolling transponder fees. Prohibits imposition of a monthly fee for any tolling transponder for any month in which the transponder is used at least 10 times.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Gas severance taxes, local; validation of coal & gas severance tax & road improvement tax ordinance. [HB-1771]
Local gas severance taxes. Makes technical amendments that provide a period of time in which natural gas companies may appeal a local gas severance tax assessment made on or after January 1, 2014, for license years 2014, 2013, 2012, or 2011. In 2012, the General Assembly passed legislation delaying the time period in which natural gas companies could appeal gas severance tax assessments and suspending the collection of gas severance tax assessments. The bill creates a time period in which natural gas companies may appeal such assessments.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Transportation projects and planning; reimbursement of VDOT by localities, etc. [HB-1718]
Transportation planning and projects. Requires a locality to repay the Department of Transportation when a locality requests termination of a project and the Department does not agree to the termination or the locality or metropolitan planning organization doesn't advance the project. The bill also expands the step before a locality requests alterations to a project to include the design approval by the Chief Engineer.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Dulles Toll Road; authorizes VDOT to enter into an agreement with MWAA. [HB-1696]
Dulles Toll Road and the Dulles Corridor Metrorail project. Authorizes the Virginia Department of Transportation to enter into an agreement with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) whereby MWAA would reduce tolls on the Dulles Toll Road in exchange for the Commonwealth's moral obligation backing of bonds, not exceeding an aggregate principal amount of $500 million, issued by MWAA to fund Phase 2 of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail project.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Transportation funding; elimination and increasing certain taxes. [HB-1677]
Transportation funding. Adjusts the sources and amounts of funding for transportation by repealing the tax on all motor fuels except diesel fuel and diesel blended fuel, increasing the retail sales and use tax rate by 0.75 percent and allocating the additional revenue to transportation according to the current formula for motor fuels tax revenue allocation, and doubling the amount of current sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Beautification projects, local; localities to provide 30-day written notice to Commissioner of VDOT. [HB-1633]
Local beautification projects. Requires localities that intend to install plant materials in a public right-of-way in connection with a local beautification project to provide advance notice thereof to VDOT. The bill requires any locality that violates the law in carrying out such project to bear the cost of bringing the project into compliance with the law.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
HOT lanes; emergency vehicles and law-enforcement vehicles cannot use when commuting to work place. [HB-1526]
HOT lanes. Provides that emergency vehicles and law-enforcement vehicles that otherwise would be allowed free use of HOT lanes cannot do so when the vehicle is being used to commute.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Congressman William Wampler, Sr., Memorial Highway; designating portion of Interstate Route 81. [HB-1508]
Congressman William Wampler, Sr., Memorial Highway. Designates I-81 between the Virginia/Tennessee line and Exit 118 the "Congressman William Wampler, Sr., Memorial Highway."
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Transportation; funding and administration. [HB-1472]
Transportation funding and administration. Provides additional funding for transportation by (i) imposing a motor fuels sales tax rate of five percent for highway maintenance; (ii) increasing the state sales tax in Northern Virginia by 0.5 percent for transportation projects in Northern Virginia; and (iii) adding an additional recordation tax in Northern Virginia at a rate of $0.40 per $100 valuation. The bill also reduces the sales and use tax rate on food for human consumption from 1.5 percent to one percent, and repeals the authority for certain
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; prohibits on Interstate 95 without approval of General Assembly. [HB-1460]
Tolls; Interstate Highway System. Prohibits tolling on Interstate 95 without the approval of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Hampton Roads Planning District; additional 1% sales & use tax in counties in District. [HB-1450]
Additional state sales and use tax in the Hampton Roads Planning District; referendum. Provides for an additional one percent sales and use tax in the counties and cities located in the Hampton Roads Planning District, with the additional revenues generated by the tax to be used for regional transportation projects. The tax would become effective on January 1, 2014, and only if approved by a majority of the voters in the Planning District at the November 2013 election.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Littering; increased specificity as to what constitutes and provides an alternative penalty. [HB-1447]
Littering. Provides increased specificity as to what constitutes littering, and provides an alternative penalty for persons who litter in quantities no greater than 0.7 cubic feet.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
School buses; exempted weight limits for certain traffic on U.S. Route 52 on Fancy Gap Mountain. [HB-1416]
Weight limits for certain traffic on U.S. Route 52 on Fancy Gap Mountain. Exempts school buses from weight limits applicable to other vehicles traveling south on U.S. Route 52 on Fancy Gap Mountain.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Private road easements; maintenance and repairs. [HB-1405]
Private road easements; maintenance and repairs. Provides that all the property owners served by a private road or right-of-way that serves as the primary source of ingress and egress for the properties are jointly and equally responsible for the cost of maintaining and repairing the road or right-of-away unless the owners agree otherwise. Such costs include the cost of snow removal but do not include the cost of capital improvements to the road or right-of-way.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; increases amount of revenue dedicated to Transportation Trust Fund. [HB-1403]
Sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases the amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund from an amount generated by a 0.5 percent tax rate under current law to an amount generated by a one percent tax rate, phased in by a 0.1 percent increase each year for five years, or over a longer period of time if there is a lack of growth in general fund revenues.