Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Smart transportation pilot zone; STO and VDOT shall establish zone to test certain road technology. [HB-1098]
Smart transportation pilot zone. Requires the Secretary of Transportation and VDOT to establish a smart transportation pilot zone to test state-of-the-art smart road technology.
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Innovation and Technology Transportation Fund; created, report. [HB-1095]
Innovation and Technology Transportation Fund. Creates the Innovation and Technology Transportation Fund to fund pilot programs and fully developed initiatives pertaining to high-tech infrastructure improvements and requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to allocate certain moneys to the Fund.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Statewide transportation technology programs; STO & VDOT shall revise and update programs. [HB-1090]
New technologies and innovations in statewide transportation programs. Requires the Secretary of Transportation and VDOT to incorporate new smart road technologies and innovations in statewide transportation technology programs.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Soil & water conservation district; exempts certain signs from regulation as outdoor structures. [HB-1050]
Soil and water conservation district signs. Exempts certain soil and water conservation district signs from regulation as outdoor advertising structures.
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Virginia 2014 Regular Session
Highway systems; funding. [HB-1048]
Funding among highway systems. Includes primary state highway system extensions, the part of the primary highway that runs through a city or town, in the list of highways that receive the 25 percent for reconstruction of deteriorated highways of the amount allocated each year by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The bill also reduces the number of vehicles per day on unpaved roads from 200 to 50 for the unpaved roads that may be considered for five percent of the annual allocation.
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Virginia 2013 Special I
Transportation; funds for certain localities. [HB-5001]
Transportation funds for certain localities. Reverts to current law regarding a portion of the calculation of certain transportation funds for counties that have withdrawn or elect to withdraw from the secondary system of state highways, referring to amounts per lane-mile, not per moving lane-mile. The change to moving lane-mile becomes effective July 1, 2013, and the reversion is effective on the constitutionally "in due course" date of August 1, 2013.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; Senate Committee on Finance to study ways to mitigate impact on State's disadvantaged. [SR-30]
Study; mitigation of the impact of tolls on Virginia's disadvantaged citizens; report. Directs the Senate Committee on Finance to study ways to mitigate the impact of tolls on Virginia's disadvantaged citizens.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). [SJR-6]
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 2013 Regular Session
Agricultural and forestry products; weight limits on interstate highways. [SJR-370]
Weight limits on interstate highways. Memorializes the Virginia Congressional Delegation to support efforts to allow states to authorize higher weight limits for commercial motor vehicles carrying agricultural and forestry products on interstate highways.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; joint subcommittee to study how VA can mitigate impact on State's disadvantaged citizens. [SJR-317]
Study; mitigation of the impact of tolls on Virginia's disadvantaged citizens; report. Establishes a joint subcommittee to study how Virginia can mitigate the impact of tolls on Virginia's disadvantaged citizens.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; General Assembly to recognize need for mitigation measures for disadvantaged populations. [SJR-312]
Toll mitigation measures. Recognizes the need for mitigation measures for disadvantaged populations adversely affected by the imposition of tolls in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management; Secretary of Public Safety to establish. [SJR-277]
National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management; report. Requests the Virginia Secretary of Public Safety to establish a Statewide Traffic Incident Management Committee to coordinate the adoption and implementation of the National Unified Goal for Traffic Incident Management by highway and emergency response personnel in order to mitigate highway incidents and improve incident response in the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). [SJR-275]
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 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). [SJR-2]
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 2013 Regular Session
Pedestrians, etc; local government may adopt ordinances requiring to stop at marked crosswalks. [SB-959]
Crossing highways. Allows local governing bodies to adopt ordinances requiring users of shared-use paths to stop before crossing highways at marked crosswalks.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Retail Sales & Use Tax; increases amount of revenue dedicated to Transportation Trust Fund. [SB-925]
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 0.75 percent tax rate, phased in over a period of three years.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Advertising; payment of penalties & costs associated with enforcement of prohibition on certain. [SB-888]
Advertising within highway rights-of-way. Provides that penalties and costs collected as the result of an agreement between the Commissioner of Highways and a locality to enforce the prohibition on advertising within highway rights-of-way may be paid to the locality as provided in an agreement between the locality and VDOT.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; General Assembly to approve prior to imposition and collection for use of Interstate System. [SB-865]
Tolling Interstate Highway System components. Requires General Assembly approval before tolls are imposed or collected on any component of the Interstate Highway System in existence prior to July 1, 2013, except for high-occupancy toll lanes and high-occupancy vehicle lanes.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Income tax, state; deduction for payment of tolls in qualified locality. [SB-859]
Taxable income; deduction for payment of certain tolls. Allows a qualified taxpayer to deduct from his Virginia adjusted gross income an amount equal to 50 percent of the amount paid by the taxpayer for tolls in a qualified locality. A qualified locality is one in which the unemployment rate is higher than the statewide average and (i) in which a public-private transportation project that includes tolling is located or (ii) that is adjacent to a locality in which such a project is located. A qualified taxpayer is a taxpayer who resides in a qualified
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Transportation; funding and administration. [SB-855]
Transportation; funding and administration. Increases the base fuel tax rate in Virginia by 10 cents to $0.275 per gallon of gasoline, gasohol, and diesel fuel, and then increases or decreases the rate each year using a fuel efficiency index. The bill would define the fuel efficiency index as the quotient that is obtained when using as the numerator the total annual vehicle miles traveled in the Commonwealth for the relevant year and using as the denominator the total gallons of motor fuel consumed for highway use in the Commonwealth for the relevant
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