Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Tye River; designation as component of Virginia Scenic River System. [SB-257]
Scenic river designation. Designates a 12.7-mile segment of the Tye River as a component of the Virginia Scenic Rivers System.
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Downtown and Midtown Tunnels; use by law enforcement, school buses, emergency medical vehicles, etc. [SB-24]
Use of Downtown and Midtown Tunnels by law enforcement, school buses, emergency medical vehicles, and employees. Adds local police officers, emergency medical vehicles, school buses, and employees of the transportation facility to the list of persons who may use the Downtown and Midtown Tunnels without paying the toll when conducting official business.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino gaming, penalties. [SB-19]
Virginia Casino Gaming Commission; regulation of casino gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Casino Gaming Commission as the licensing body for casino gaming. The bill sets up the licensing scheme for casino gaming and provides penalties for violations of the casino gaming law. Under the bill, casino gambling shall be limited to localities in which at least 40 percent of the land area is exempt from local real property taxation pursuant to federal law or Article X, Sections 6 and 6-A of the Constitution of Virginia. The bill requires proceeds
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Electronic toll collection transponders; VDOT shall develop plan to eliminate maintenance fees. [SB-156]
Electronic tolling facilities; fees. Directs VDOT to develop and implement a plan to eliminate E-ZPass transponder maintenance fees and encourages the Secretary of Transportation to examine and improve the retail distribution of E-ZPass transponders.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Transportation, Department of; notice and public comment on projects on its website. [SB-147]
Department of Transportation; notice and public comment on projects. Requires VDOT to post notice on its website and provide for public comment prior to undertaking a safety-related or congestion management transportation project and when a project is expanded or substantially altered. The bill also requires VDOT to hold a public hearing upon request.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Dulles Access Highway; memorializing MWAA to impose & collect tolls for use, etc. [HJR-85]
MWAA; tolls on Dulles Access Highway. Memorializes the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority to impose and collect tolls for use of the Dulles Access Highway in order to reduce tolls for use of the Dulles Toll Road.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Dulles Access Highway; memorializing Congress to take legislative action necessary to impose tolls. [HJR-84]
Memorializing Congress; tolls on Dulles Access Highway. Memorializes Congress to impose and collect tolls for use of the Dulles Access Highway in order to limit toll increases for use of the Dulles Toll Road used to finance the rail-to-Dulles project.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Interstate Route 73; joint subcommittee to study proposed construction. [HJR-38]
Study; construction of I-73; report. Creates a joint subcommittee to conduct a two-year study to promote the construction of I-73 in Virginia. This resolution was continued to the 2015 Session of the General Assembly.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge; designating as I81 bridges over Maury River. [HB-986]
Designating the Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge. Designates the Interstate Route 81 bridge over the Maury River in Rockbridge County the "Master Trooper Jerry L. Hines Memorial Bridge."
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Highway systems; funding. [HB-920]
Funding among highway systems. Advances from July 1, 2020, to July 1, 2014, the expiration date of the annual allocation that can be made by the Commonwealth Transportation Board.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Transportation projects; notice by VDOT. [HB-904]
Transportation projects; notice of public hearing. Requires VDOT, at least 30 days prior to any public hearing regarding a transportation project valued in excess of $100 million, to provide notice of the hearing by regular mail to all owners of property within and adjacent to such project study corridor.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Transportation; Commonwealth priority of projects and funding. [HB-87]
Commonwealth priority of projects and funding. Provides that all state funds expended on transportation projects be for (i) projects expected to provide congestion reduction or (ii) projects that increase safety for travelers.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Speed limits; maximum limit on nonsurface-treated highways in certain counties. [HB-854]
Maximum speed limit on nonsurface-treated highways. Applies statewide the 35 mph maximum speed limit on nonsurface-treated highways that is currently applied only in Albemarle, Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Loudoun, Montgomery, Nelson, Page, Rappahannock, Warren, and Wythe Counties and in any other county whose governing body adopts an ordinance to do so.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Tree replacement; VDOT shall adhere to locality's policy. [HB-806]
VDOT tree replacement policy. Requires VDOT, in highway construction projects, to adhere to any tree replacement policy adopted by the locality in which the construction project is located.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Fare enforcement inspectors; appointed to enforce payment of fares for use of mass transit facility. [HB-761]
Fare enforcement inspectors. Provides for the appointment of fare enforcement inspectors to enforce payment of fares for use of mass transit facilities operated in Planning District 8 (Northern Virginia). The bill also provides that failure of a transit user to pay the fare or produce proof of fare payment shall result in a civil penalty of not more than $100.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Nonconforming billboards; revises and updates statutory requirements pertaining to maintenance, etc. [HB-756]
Repair of nonconforming billboards. Revises and updates statutory requirements pertaining to the maintenance and repair of nonconforming billboards.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Highway drains and culverts; localities to prohibit interfering with or impeding storm water runoff. [HB-744]
Blocking highway drains and culverts. Allows localities by ordinance to prohibit interfering with or impeding storm water runoff into drains or culverts on VDOT-controlled highway rights-of-way.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Tax restructuring; modifies individual income and retail sales and use taxes. [HB-729]
Tax restructuring. Modifies the individual income and retail sales and use taxes by lowering the top three individual income marginal tax rates, increasing the individual income tax filing thresholds, repealing the retail sales and use tax on food, increasing the state retail sales and use tax from 4.3 percent to 5.0 percent except in the counties and cities located in the Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia Planning Districts, extending the retail sales and use tax to certain personal services that are currently exempt from the tax, and eliminating
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District; created. [HB-691]
Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District. Creates the Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District to provide a means of financing an extension of commuter rail service from Fairfax County into Prince William County.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Commonwealth Transportation Board; increases total membership. [HB-67]
Composition of Commonwealth Transportation Board. Increases the total membership of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 22 members by doubling the representation for the Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Northern Virginia highway construction districts.