Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Highway maintenance; payments to cities and towns. [HB-1631]
Payments to cities and towns for highway maintenance. Equalizes municipal street payments to comparable amounts paid for state maintenance.
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Mopeds; any city by ordinance may prohibit operation on certain highways. [HB-1618]
Mopeds. Allows any city by ordinance to prohibit the operation of mopeds on highways with posted speed limits of 45 miles per hour or more.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank; created. [HB-1582]
Transportation funding; Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank. Creates the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank (VTIB) as a special fund to provide loans and grants to public and private entities to fund transportation projects in the Commonwealth. The special fund shall consist of revenues generated through the privatization of the Commonwealth's ABC stores and revenues generated through a one-time drawing down of construction cash reserves by the Virginia Department of Transportation. VTIB is authorized to issue bonds in an amount
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Overweight farm machinery, etc.; prohibits operation on any Interstate Highway System component. [HB-1558]
Overweight farm machinery and agricultural multipurpose drying units. Prohibits the operation of overweight farm machinery or agricultural multipurpose drying units on any Interstate Highway System component when the axle and gross weights are over certain amounts.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; increases percentage of Transportation Trust Fund revenues, etc. [HB-1544]
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Increases the percentage of Transportation Trust Fund revenues flowing into the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund from 14.7 to 19 percent.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Tolls on Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Greenway; requires advance approval by local government, etc. [HB-1539]
Tolls on Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Greenway. Requires advance approval of any tolls for use of the Dulles Toll Road or Dulles Greenway by every local governing body of every county, city, and town through which the facility passes.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Highway maintenance funds; requires CTB to allocate funds on basis of achieving level of disparity. [HB-1491]
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
HOV lanes; use by vehicle with clean special fuel license plates. [HB-1432]
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 incorporates
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Tolls; provided at Monitor Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel & Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. [HB-1323]
Hampton Roads; tolls. Provides for tolls at the Monitor Merrimac Memorial Bridge-Tunnel and the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Prince William County Metro Rail Improvement District; created. [HB-1313]
Prince William County Metro Rail Improvement District. Creates the Prince William County Metro Rail 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 2011 Regular Session
Va. High-Speed Rail Commission; established, replaces Va-North Carolina High Speed Rail Compact. [HB-1275]
Virginia High-Speed Rail Commission. Establishes the Virginia High-Speed Rail Commission to promote and augment the state's competitive stance for matters related to high-speed passenger rail service in Virginia. The Commission is to study, assess, and advise the General Assembly and the Secretary of Transportation on effective and competitive design, planning, financing, construction, and operations involving high-speed rail service. The Commission is, further, to coordinate high-speed rail programs with neighboring states and federal and regional
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). [SJR-91]
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, 2009, 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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Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Norment Senate: Continued To 2009 In Privileges And Elections (14-y 0-n) on 01/22/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Stop and yield sign posts; DOT to study costs and befefits of applying retroreflective material. [SJR-119]
Study; retroreflective material on stop sign posts; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility, costs, and benefits of applying retroreflective material to stop sign and yield sign posts statewide.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Barker House: Left In Rules on 03/03/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Highway systems; revenue-sharing funds therefor in certain counties, cities, and towns. [SB-99]
"Revenue-sharing" funds for highway systems in certain counties, cities, and towns. Provides that, from additional revenues made available by the General Assembly after January 1, 2008, and appropriated for the improvement, construction, or reconstruction of the systems of state highways, the Commonwealth Transportation Board must make an equivalent matching allocation to any county, city, or town for designations by the governing body of up to $1 million in county, city, or town general funds for use by the county, city, or town to improve, construct,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Frank Ruff Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0608) on 03/18/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Covered Bridge Capital; designating Patrick County thereas. [SB-94]
Official emblems and designations; covered bridge capital of the Commonwealth. Designates Patrick County as the Covered Bridge Capital of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Roscoe Reynolds Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0262) on 03/06/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Tolls; State Corporation Commission authority to approve or revise rates charged. [SB-778]
Virginia Highway Corporation Act; authority of SCC. Directs the State Corporation Commission (SCC), in setting tolls under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 during the period January 1, 2013, through January 1, 2020, to approve requests to increase toll rates by a percentage that (i) is equal to the increase in the consumer price index from the date the Commission last approved a toll increase, plus one percent, (ii) is equal to the increase in the real gross domestic product from the date the Commission last approved a toll increase,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Herring Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0844) on 04/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Richmond Metropolitan Authority; revises composition of Board of Directors. [SB-767]
Richmond Metropolitan Authority; composition of Board; revenue authority. Revises the composition of the Board of Directors of the Richmond Metropolitan Authority (RMA) and provides an opportunity for additional localities to join the Authority. The RMA is also granted additional revenue authority. However, the fees and taxes authorized by this Act by the Authority shall only be imposed or assessed by the Authority if (i) the member localities approve the restructuring of the Board of Directors of the Authority as proposed by this Act and (ii)
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Watkins Senate: Continued To 2009 In Finance (9-y 4-n 1-a) on 02/05/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Changeable electronic variable message signs; imposes a moratorium on erection of advertisements. [SB-763]
Changeable electronic variable message signs. Imposes a moratorium on the erection or conversion of advertisements and advertising structures into changeable electronic variable message signs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke Senate: Continued To 2009 In Transportation (14-y 0-n) on 02/07/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Public-Private Transportation Act; prohibits private entity from imposing tolls on Interstate 81. [SB-754]
Public-Private Transportation Act; tolls on Interstate highways. Prohibits a private entity from imposing tolls or user fees under the Public-Private Transportation Act on any existing rural segment of Interstate Route 81 without the prior approval of the General Assembly. This bill is identical to
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0838) on 04/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Public-Private Transportation Act; prohibits private entity from imposing tolls on Interstate 81. [SB-753]
Public-Private Transportation Act; tolls on Interstate 81. Provides that a private entity may not impose tolls under the Public-Private Transportation Act on passenger cars, pickup or panel trucks, and motorcycles if the qualified transportation facility is Interstate Route 81.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Edwards Senate: Stricken At Request Of Patron In Transportation (15-y 0-n) on 01/24/2008