Highways, Bridges, And Ferries
Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Signs or advertising; civil penalties for placing within highway rights-of-way. [HB-2165]
Signs or advertising within limits of highways. Imposes a civil penalty of $100 for first violations and $250 for second or subsequent violations for placing advertising within highway rights-of-way.
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Highway maintenance payments; increased by Commissioner where there are high traffic volumes. [HB-2141]
Street maintenance payments. Provides for increased highway maintenance payments by the Commissioner of Highways to municipalities where traffic volumes exceed the statewide average by more than 20 percent.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; requires GA approval for tolling of any Interstate or state highway component. [HB-2129]
Toll roads. Requires General Assembly approval for tolling of any interstate, state primary, or state secondary highway system component.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Commonwealth Transportation Board, Commissioner of Highways, etc.; powers and duties, report. [HB-2116]
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.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Junkyards; policy and definitions. [HB-2105]
Highway definitions. Makes technical amendments to conform Virginia's statutes with corresponding changes in federal nomenclature.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
VA Public Procurement Act; process for competitive sealed bidding and negotiation. [HB-2079]
Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement. Reorganizes the definitions of and processes for competitive sealed bidding and competitive negotiation. The bill also adds a definition of job order contracting and specifies procedures to be used by public bodies when utilizing job order contracting. Under the bill, the above provisions do not become effective until July 1, 2014. The bill also requires the chairs of the House Committee on General Laws and the Senate Committee on General Laws and Technology to convene a work group in 2013
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Mass Transit; removes all current allocations made by CTB and implements performance-based funding. [HB-2070]
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Removes all current allocations made by the Commonwealth Transportation Board to mass transit and implements performance-based funding for mass transit.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Virginia Alternative Fuels Revolving Fund; guidelines for governing. [HB-2067]
Virginia Alternative Fuels Revolving Fund. Replaces "regulations" governing the Fund with "guidelines."
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Sources of revenue; establishing and adjusting for appropriations of State and its localities. [HB-2063]
Establishing and adjusting sources of revenues for appropriations of the Commonwealth. Makes several changes to sources of revenue of the Commonwealth as follows: Establishes a 5% tax on motor fuels sales based on the statewide average wholesale price of a gallon of self-serve unleaded regular gasoline. The revenues would be distributed to the Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund, the Transportation Trust Fund, the Intercity Passenger Rail Operating and Capital Fund, and the localities to be used for transportation purposes. Increases the additional
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
HOT lanes; allows state or local law-enforcement vehicles, etc., to enter. [HB-2052]
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.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Highway Construction Advisory Committee, Recycled Materials in; eliminates Committee. [HB-2044]
Recycled Materials in Highway Construction Advisory Committee. Eliminates the Recycled Materials in Highway Construction Advisory Committee.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Access roads and bikeways; authorizes Board to establish guidelines for use of rec. access funds. [HB-2041]
Fund for access roads and bikeways to public recreational areas and historical sites. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to establish guidelines, instead of regulations, in connection with use of recreational access funds.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Noise abatement practices and technologies; VDOT's evaluation extended for two additional years. [HB-2040]
Noise abatement practices and technologies. Extends for two additional years (until June 30, 2015) VDOT's evaluation of noise abatement practices and technologies demonstration projects.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Tolls; use of revenues. [HB-2020]
Use of toll revenues. Prohibits use of toll revenues for any purpose other than the construction, reconstruction, replacement, maintenance replacement, improvement, or maintenance of the facility for the use of which the tolls were imposed and collected, except as otherwise provided in §33.1-23.03:4 (Toll Facilities Revolving Account) and subsection D of §33.1-23.03:10 (tolls on Interstate Highway System components). The bill exempts from its provisions tolls imposed and collected on January 1, 2013.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Dulles Greenway Authority; created. [HB-1980]
Dulles Greenway Authority created. Creates the Dulles Greenway Authority to, among other things, operate and maintain the Dulles Greenway. The Authority would be governed by a board of directors composed of 15 voting members as follows: one current member of the local governing body of each of the Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William and the Cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park to be appointed by the Governor; four nonlegislative citizen members to be appointed by the Speaker of the House
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Dulles Greenway; authorizes Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue bonds to acquire. [HB-1979]
Authorization of bonds to acquire the Dulles Greenway. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue bonds to (i) acquire the Dulles Greenway and (ii) if determined necessary by the Board, improve or upgrade the Dulles Greenway. If the Board were to acquire the Dulles Greenway, the Board would impose and collect tolls from all classes of vehicles in amounts established by the Board for the use of the same. The aggregate principal amount of bonds that could be issued by the Board would be conditioned upon the revenues from the tolls or
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Income tax, state; deduction for payment of tolls in qualified locality. [HB-1963]
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
U.S. Route 58 Corridor Development Program; issuance of bonds. [HB-1953]
U.S. Route 58 Corridor Development Program; issuance of bonds. Changes the maximum amount of bonds that the Commonwealth Transportation Board may issue from an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $704,300,000 to an aggregate principal amount not exceeding $1,300,000,000, provided that the debt service on the additional bonds that may be issued pursuant to the bill shall be paid solely by the recordation tax revenue dedicated for the development of the U.S. 58 Corridor. The bill is contingent upon a comprehensive, statewide transportation funding
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Reckless driving; speed limits on toll facilities. [HB-1949]
Reckless driving; speed limits on toll facilities. Eliminates the provision making driving 80 mph or faster reckless driving and allows speed limits of 80 mph on toll roads, including HOT lanes.
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Virginia 2013 Regular Session
Commonwealth Transportation Board; changes composition. [HB-1908]
Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB so that one member will be appointed from each of Virginia's congressional districts and three will be at-large appointees. The three ex officio members remain unchanged. The bill also replaces the term "metropolitan statistical areas" with "metropolitan planning areas with populations greater than 200,000."