Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Following too closely; includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, mopeds, etc. [SB-264]
Following too closely. Includes bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, and mopeds among vehicles that the driver of a motor vehicle shall not follow more closely than is reasonable.
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Highway projects; VDOT to provide for training and certification of local government employees. [SB-230]
Administration of local highway projects. Requires VDOT to provide for training and certification of local governments to enable them to administer locally performed highway maintenance and construction projects with minimal VDOT supervision.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Highway maintenance; allocation of funds by CTB for maintenance of assets within Interstate System. [SB-213]
Highway maintenance allocations. Provides that allocation of funds by the Commonwealth Transportation Board for maintenance of assets within the Interstate System of Highways and the primary and secondary systems of state highways shall be based on achieving a minimal level of disparity among highway construction districts in meeting asset management standards.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
High occupancy toll (HOT) lanes; construction contracts. [SB-212]
HOT lane construction contracts. Requires that High Occupancy Toll lane construction contracts contain requirements for minimum average speed for vehicles using the facility.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
HOV lanes; extends sunset provision on use by vehicles with clean special fuel license plates. [SB-209]
HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Requires the Commissioner of Highways to report annually to the Chairmen of the House and Senate Transportation Committees on those HOV facilities whose high traffic volume has resulted in a degraded condition as identified by federal law. This report is to be used by the Chairmen as the basis for recommendations for further restrictions on the use of HOV facilities by clean special fuel vehicles.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Fairfax County Parkway; requires CTB to transfer to state primary highway system. [SB-196]
Fairfax County Parkway. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to transfer the Fairfax County Parkway to the state primary highway system.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Performance guarantees; street construction. [SB-177]
Performance guarantees; street construction. Allows localities to retain full performance guarantees until streets in a new development are accepted by the state agency, local government department or agency, or other public authority that is responsible for maintaining and operating such public facility. The bill also provides that if a developer is in default with regard to street completions in another development within a locality, the locality may withhold acceptance of securities or plat approvals. Furthermore, a locality may withhold building
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Transportation Board; increases number of membership. [SB-161]
Commonwealth Transportation Board; composition. Increases the number of members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 18 and changes the areas of representation to the congressional districts. The bill also assigns the at-large members to specific transportation areas.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Bicycles; Town Council of Blacksburg to permit operation in either direction on one-way streets. [SB-101]
Bicycles in Blacksburg. Authorizes the Town Council of Blacksburg to permit operation of bicycles in either direction on one-way streets.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). [HJR-90]
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, and other funds established by general law for transportation. All revenues dedicated to Transportation Funds on January 1, 2013, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds, unless the General Assembly by general law, other
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds. [HJR-71]
Constitutional amendment (first resolution); Transportation Funds. Requires the General Assembly to maintain permanent and separate Transportation Funds to include the Commonwealth Transportation Fund, Transportation Trust Fund, Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, and Priority Transportation Fund. All revenues dedicated to Transportation Funds on January 1, 2013, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds, unless the General Assembly by general law, other than a general appropriation
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Highway and monorail transportation, combined; Congress to support funding for hybrid systems, etc. [HJR-185]
Memorializing Congress; support of hybrid systems of combined highway and monorail transportation methods. Expresses the sense of the General Assembly that the Congress of the United States should support a federal funding grant for development of new technology, hybrid systems of combined highway and monorail transportation methods, and an amendment to 23 U.S.C. § 111(a), Agreements Relating to Use of and Access to Rights-of-Way, Interstate System.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Parkway; JLARC to study economic impact of proposed projects. [HJR-134]
Study; JLARC to study economic impact of proposed Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Parkway; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the potential economic impact of the proposed Bi-County Parkway and Tri-County Parkway transportation infrastructure projects.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Route 28; VDOT to study feasibility of extending across Potomac River into Maryland, etc. [HJR-131]
Study; Route 28 extension across Potomac River; report. Requests the Virginia Department of Transportation to study the desirability and feasibility of extension of Virginia Route 28 across the Potomac River into Maryland and the inclusion of Virginia Route 28 in the Interstate Highway System.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Children at play signs; allows county or town governments to install. [HB-914]
"Children at play" signs. Allows counties and towns, pursuant to an agreement with the Commissioner of Highways, to install "Children at play" signs on highways within their boundaries. The cost of the signs and installation will be borne by the county or town.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Highway maintenance and construction; allocation of funds. [HB-909]
Highway maintenance and construction. Prohibits allocation by the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) of any funds in the Transportation Trust Fund for highway maintenance purposes.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Highway Construction Projects Trust Fund; established. [HB-892]
Taxes on fuels; issuance of bonds. Makes the retail sale of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels subject to the general five percent retail sales and use tax and reduces the fuels tax on such fuels by $0.05 per gallon from $0.175 per gallon to $0.125 per gallon. Under current law, the sale of fuels is exempt from the general retail sales and use tax, but fuels are subject to a fuels tax imposed at the rate of $0.175 per gallon. Of the net additional revenues generated each year under the bill, $250 million would be deposited into the Highway Maintenance
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Tolls; collected for use of Midtown or Downtown Tunnels between Norfolk and Portsmouth. [HB-889]
Tolls on Midtown or Downtown Tunnels. Requires that, if tolls are collected for use of the Midtown or Downtown Tunnels between Norfolk and Portsmouth, users will be able to pay tolls without use of automated or electronic devices.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Transportation Board; changes composition, Governor shall appoint or remove members, etc. [HB-864]
Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB so that one member will be appointed from each of Virginia's congressional districts and three more will be at-large appointees. The three ex officio members remain unchanged. The bill also replaces the term metropolitan statistical areas with metropolitan planning areas with populations greater than 200,000.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Income tax, state; deduction for tolls. [HB-862]
Individual income tax deduction for tolls. Establishes an individual income tax deduction beginning with the 2013 taxable year for tolls paid for the use of a publicly owned and publicly operated highway located in the Commonwealth.