Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Allocation of revenue-sharing funds; removes priority structure to localities. [HB-2021]
Allocation of revenue-sharing funds. Removes the priority structure for allocation of revenue-sharing funds to localities and provides for funding of no less than $50 million each fiscal year. This bill incorporates
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Quiet pavement technology; requires VDOT to expedite development. [HB-2001]
Quiet pavement technology. Requires VDOT to expedite the development of quiet pavement technology.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Northern Virginia Transportation District; revises criteria for allocation of revenues. [HB-1999]
Northern Virginia Transportation District. Revises criteria for allocation of revenues to highway projects within the Northern Virginia Transportation District. The bill also contains technical amendments.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Northern Virginia Transportation District; long-range transportation planning. [HB-1998]
Northern Virginia Transportation District; long-range planning. Establishes responsibilities for various entities for long-range transportation planning for the Virginia Department of Transportation in the Northern Virginia Transportation District.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Toll violations; sets out procedures for issuance of notices. [HB-1962]
Toll violation notice. Sets out the procedures for issuance of toll violation notices.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Transportation Board; powers and duties. [HB-1957]
Powers and duties of CTB. Makes various changes to the powers and duties of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB): (i) clarifies that local roads in counties outside the state secondary highway system are local roads, and not part of the state system; (ii) increases the limitation on contract values that the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner and the Director of the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation may let; (iii) eliminates the duty of the CTB to regulate outdoor theaters; (iv) provides for the updating of the Statewide
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Right to enter on land; removes requirement for notice of intent be sent by certified mail. [HB-1947]
Right to enter on land for transportation purposes. Removes the requirement that notice of intent to enter be sent by certified mail. The bill also eliminates the required waiting period if the landowner agrees to or requests an earlier date of entry than that specified in the notice.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commercial vehicles; prohibits driving on left-most lanes of certain interstate highways. [HB-1946]
Commercial vehicles on interstate highways. Prohibits driving of commercial vehicles on the left-most lanes of interstate highways except where (i) the posted speed limit is less than 65 miles per hour or (ii) the average annual daily traffic exceeds 10,000 vehicles per lane per day.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Motor carriers; regulation by DMV. [HB-1945]
Regulation of motor carriers by DMV; commercial driver's licenses. Revises statutes relating to motor carriers, including requiring DMV to simply notify localities of the issuance of overweight and oversize permits and eliminating the requirement for for-hire contract passenger carriers and irregular-route common carriers to prove public convenience and necessity when applying for a license. The bill also updates Virginia law on commercial driver's licenses to comply with federal requirements. This bill is the same as
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Salem Highway Construction District Transportation Revenue Fund; established. [HB-1926]
Transportation funding; the Salem Highway Construction District. Provides funds for transportation in the Salem Highway Construction District by allocating revenue attributable to a portion of economic growth due to or facilitated by the Inland Port in Montgomery County.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road; adds portion of U.S. Route 58. [HB-1916]
Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road. Adds to "Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road," designated in 2004, U.S. Route 58 from the Town of Stuart east to the City of Martinsville.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Compton Road; designating as Virginia byway in Fairfax County. [HB-1900]
Compton Road. Designates Compton Road in Fairfax County a Virginia byway.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Highway maintenance funds; requires CTB to allocate funds on basis of achieving level of disparity. [HB-1884]
Highway maintenance funds. Provides that when allocating funds for the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, and the secondary system of state highways maintained by the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall consider achieving a minimal level of disparity among highway construction districts in meeting asset performance standards. Prior to such allocation, the Board shall release for public review a comparison of the proposed allocation of funds by highway construction district with an allocation
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commissioner of Highways; changes title from Transportation Commissioner, report. [HB-1825]
Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner. Changes the title "Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner" to "Commissioner of Highways." The bill also eliminates the requirement that the Commissioner employ an assistant commissioner for the environment, transportation planning, and regulatory affairs; allows the Commissioner to transfer, abandon, and discontinue roads in the primary and secondary systems of state highways or move roads from one such system to another when such actions are recommended as appropriate by the Chief Engineer in connection
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Transportation Board; changes composition. [HB-1801]
Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB. One member will be appointed from each of Virginia's 11 congressional districts (as they were on January 1, 2011) and four more will be at-large appointees: one representing seaports, one representing aviation, one representing railroads, and one representing mass transit. The three ex-officio members remain unchanged.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Motor vehicle rental tax; shall be determined by Tax Commissioner, exemptions. [HB-1798]
Motor vehicle rental tax. Removes the administration and collection of the motor vehicle rental tax from the Department of Motor Vehicles and transfers it to the Department of Taxation.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Local roads; cities and towns responsible for construction programs. [HB-1758]
Local roads; notice. Provides that those cities and towns that decide to take over responsibility for their construction programs must notify the Commonwealth Transportation Board by December 31 (currently July 1) for implementation the following fiscal year. The bill exempts Rural Rustic Roads from regulations requiring additional engineering or improvements beyond those required to provide an adequate hard surface. The bill eliminates, in certain circumstances, the requirement that a local governing body hold a public hearing when provided notice
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. [HB-1754]
HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. Extends until July 1, 2012, the sunset on use of HOV lanes by clean special fuel vehicles, regardless of the number of occupants. This bill was incorporated into
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Blue Star Memorial Highway; designates entire length of Route 3 in Lancaster County. [HB-1735]
Blue Star Memorial Highway. Designates the entire length of Route 3 in Lancaster County as the "Blue Star Memorial Highway."
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Rail Enhancement Fund; allocation and use of funds. [HB-1648]
Rail Enhancement Fund; allocation and use of funds. Provides that allocations from this fund may be used as matching funds for federal grants to support rail projects. The bill repeals the Rail Advisory Board, which had previously provided advice on the use of these funds.