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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Virginia Port Authority; reform by adding Chief Executive Officer to Board of Commissioners. [SB-1351]
Virginia Port Authority, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, and Commonwealth Transportation Board. Implements reforms of the Virginia Port Authority by adding the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to the Board of Commissioners, adding the Virginia Port Authority Executive Director to the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and providing the Virginia Port Authority with additional procurement and other exemptions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeffrey McWaters
Incorporated By Transportation on 01/30/2013
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Tolls; General Assembly to approve for use on any component of Interstate Highway System, exception. [SB-1338]
Tolls for the use of Interstate Highway System components. Requires prior General Assembly approval to toll any component of the Interstate Highway System in existence prior to July 1, 2013, except for HOT and HOV lanes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Martin
Incorporated By Finance on 01/31/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Food and beverage tax; adds to list any county that maintains its own roads, etc. [SB-1311]
County food and beverage tax. Adds to the list of counties that may collect a food and beverage tax counties that have withdrawn from the secondary state highway system and therefore maintain their own roads and are adjacent to a city that also operates its own road system, and chartered counties that do not currently impose a food and beverage tax.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donald McEachin
Left In Finance on 02/18/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Virginia Port Authority; reform by adding Chief Executive Officer to Board of Commissioners, etc. [SB-1305]
Virginia Port Authority, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, and Commonwealth Transportation Board. Implements reforms of the Virginia Port Authority by adding the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to the Board of Commissioners, adding the Virginia Port Authority Executive Director to the Commonwealth Transportation Board, and preventing the Commonwealth and the Virginia Port Authority from accepting any unsolicited proposal under the Public-Private Transportation Act or the Public-Private Education
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Black
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0794) on 04/03/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Commonwealth Transportation Board, Commissioner of Highways, etc.; powers and duties, report. [SB-1209]
Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Amends the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to create new efficiencies and streamline procedures by granting the Commissioner greater authority over administrative operations, matters involving the practice of civil engineering, and interaction with stakeholders.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0646) on 03/20/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
HOT lanes; allows state or local law-enforcement vehicles, etc., to enter. [SB-1204]
HOT Lanes. Allows state and local law-enforcement vehicles, firefighting trucks, ambulances, and rescue squad vehicles to enter HOT lanes by crossing a barrier or buffer and not be guilty of reckless driving.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan McDougle
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0101) on 03/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety officers. [SB-1199]
Workers' compensation; injuries to public safety officers. Provides that a public safety officer who is injured in the course of his employment while on duty on a public or private street or highway in the Commonwealth is not required to prove that the nature of his employment exposed him to a special, additional, peculiar, or particular risk of injury to which a member of the public is not generally subject. The measure further provides that such an injured employee is not required to prove a causal connection between the conditions under which
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Saslaw
Incorporated By Commerce And Labor on 01/28/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Littering & illegal dumping; if convicted, ordered to perform minimum of 10 hrs. community service. [SB-1166]
Littering and illegal dumping; community service. Provides that when a person is convicted of illegally dumping or disposing of garbage or refuse on public property or on private property without the permission of the owner, the court may order a mandatory minimum of 10 hours of community service.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Smith
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0156) on 03/12/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Mass Transit; implements performance-based funding for mass transit for revenues above $160 million. [SB-1140]
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Implements performance-based funding for mass transit for revenues generated above $160 million in 2014 and after. Creates the Transit Service Delivery Advisory Committee to advise the Department of Rail and Public Transportation on the distribution of such funds and how transit systems can incorporate the metrics into their transit development plans.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Petersen
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0639) on 03/20/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Gas severance taxes, local; validation of coal & gas severance tax & road improvement tax ordinance. [SB-1111]
Local gas severance taxes. Makes technical amendments that provide a period of time in which natural gas companies may appeal a local gas severance tax assessment made on or after January 1, 2014, for license years 2014, 2013, 2012, or 2011. In 2012, the General Assembly passed legislation delaying the time period in which natural gas companies could appeal gas severance tax assessments and suspending the collection of gas severance tax assessments. The bill creates a time period in which natural gas companies may appeal such assessments.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan McDougle
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0391) on 03/14/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Transportation projects and planning; reimbursement of VDOT by localities, etc. [SB-1075]
Transportation planning and projects. Requires a locality to repay the Department of Transportation when a locality requests termination of a project and the Department does not agree to the termination or the locality or metropolitan planning organization doesn't advance the project. The bill also expands the step before a locality requests alterations to a project to include the design approval by the Chief Engineer.
Sponsored by: Sen. Richard Stuart
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0388) on 03/14/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Handheld personal communications devices; using while driving on bridge or tunnel, primary offense. [SB-1005]
Use of a handheld personal communications device while driving. Makes using a handheld personal communication device while driving on a bridge or in a tunnel a primary offense. All other offenses involving the use of a handheld personal communication device while driving remain secondary offenses. The bill also increases the penalty for causing an accident because of the use of a handheld personal communications device while driving on a bridge or in a tunnel to $150 for a first offense and $250 for a second or subsequent offense.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeffrey McWaters
Engrossment Reconsidered By Senate (38-y 0-n) on 02/01/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; General Assembly to recognize need for mitigation measures for disadvantaged populations. [HR-130]
Toll mitigation measures. Recognizes the need for mitigation measures for disadvantaged populations adversely affected by the imposition of tolls in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew James
Tabled In Rules By Voice Vote on 01/31/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). [HJR-909]
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, 2014, 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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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Rejected By Senate (15-y 24-n) on 02/21/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; joint subcommittee to study how VA can mitigate impact on State's disadvantaged citizens. [HJR-675]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew James
Left In Rules on 02/05/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds. [HJR-652]
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, 2014, 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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Sponsored by: Rep. John O'Bannon
Incorporated By Privileges And Elections on 01/25/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds. [HJR-651]
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, 2014, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds. The General Assembly by general law, other than
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ron Villanueva
Incorporated By Privileges And Elections on 01/25/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds (first reference). [HJR-622]
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, Priority Transportation Fund, and other funds established by general law for transportation. All revenues dedicated to Transportation Funds on January 1, 2014, by general law, other than a general appropriation law, shall be deposited to the Transportation Funds. The General Assembly
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Sponsored by: Rep. L. Scott Lingamfelter
Passed By Indefinitely In Privileges And Elections (12-y 3-n) on 02/12/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Agricultural and forestry products; weight limits on interstate highways. [HJR-586]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Bell
Passed By Indefinitely In Rules By Voice Vote on 02/14/2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Constitutional amendment; Transportation Funds. [HJR-584]
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, Priority Transportation Fund, and any other transportation fund established by general law, other than a general appropriation law. 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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts
Incorporated By Privileges And Elections on 01/25/2013