Roads And Transportation
West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating WV Country Roads Act [SB-924]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Tourism ]
[Economic Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Country Roads Mapping and Marketing Act.
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Allowing DOH to contract for snow removal on secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties [SB-898]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
[Disaster Relief ]
The purpose of this bill is to create a snow removal pilot program with the Division of Highways.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating WV Public Waterway Access Act [SB-801]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Water ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Recreation ]
The purpose of this bill is to create of the West Virginia Public Waterway Act providing public access bridge crossings; fencing; and requiring implementation by the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Department of Natural Resources.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Authorizing the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to offer locality pay to Division of Highways employees working in certain jurisdictions [HB-3405]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide employees working for the Division of Highways with locality pay for working in certain jurisdictions designated by the commissioner as jurisdictions that are necessary for maintaining planning, engineering, construction, reconstruction, maintenance, and traffic regulation of state road projects.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Authorizing adjustment from federal adjusted gross income for certain law enforcement pension benefit payments [HB-3468]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Pensions ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Retirement ]
The purpose of this bill relates to pension benefits which are exempt from income taxation. The bill adds Division of Natural Resources police, deputy sheriffs, full-time firefighters, and municipal police officers into the class of law-enforcement officers exempted.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating generally to traffic safety [SB-795]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase traffic safety by defining maintenance vehicles and describing making way for them.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Authorizing DOH to erect warning signs [SB-794]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to authorize the commissioner to erect signs, on certain roads that are not well maintained, warning that only high clearance 4 x 4 vehicles are permitted on those roads.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Requiring drivers to observe same safety requirements regarding railroad crossing when on-track equipment is present [SB-792]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to require motor vehicle drivers to observe the same safety requirements when approaching a railroad crossing when on-track railroad equipment is present or approaching as is required when a railroad train is present or approaching; providing that violation thereof is a misdemeanor; and providing criminal penalties for violation thereof.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Installing emergency alert stations at rest areas [HB-3466]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Infrastructure ]
The purpose of this bill is to install emergency alert stations at rest areas and welcome centers in this state. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill provides for the Division of Highways to install "blue light" towers. Finally, the bill provides for an effective date.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Non-State Owned Roads Improvement Act [HB-3377]
[Infrastructure ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Community Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the improvement of non-state owned roads by municipalities while providing legal safeguards against litigation, ensuring that local governments can enhance infrastructure and ensure public safety effectively.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Allow students who enroll and successfully complete a driver’s education course to waive testing at the DMV [HB-3317]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow students who enroll and successfully complete a driver's education course to receive a certificate which the DMV will accept in lieu of being tested at the DMV.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to membership composition of Legislative Oversight Commission on Department of Transportation Accountability [SB-733]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
The purpose of this bill is to enable the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Delegates to appoint the statutorily required number of members to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Department of Transportation Accountability at times when party diversity is lacking.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to special stops required for on-track equipment [HB-3292]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to define "on-track equipment"; and clarify provisions related to obedience to signal indicating approach of train.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Issuance of new DMV titles under certain requirment [HB-3197]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify conditions when the division shall issue a new title and provide circumstances which void title issued and initiate a legal investigation.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Establishing program for camera-assisted speed enforcement in active work zones on public highways [SB-696]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish a program for camera assisted speed enforcement in active work zones in this state to be implemented by the West Virginia Division of Highways in cooperation with certified law enforcement agencies.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Establishing Comprehensive Highway Paving Plan [SB-680]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Highways to prepare and present to the Legislature a comprehensive highway paving plan establishing routine repaving of all normally asphalt-surfaced roads.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to the orphan roads and bridges program [HB-3121]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify how orphan roads and bridges qualify for inclusion into the state system.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Establishing a program for camera assisted speed enforcement in active work zones on public highways [HB-3117]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Crime ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish a program for camera assisted speed enforcement in active work zones in this state to be implemented by the West Virginia Division of Highways in cooperation with certified law enforcement agencies.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating Super two highways in West Virginia [HB-3072]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Construction ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of "Super Two" highways in this state for the construction of certain new roadways.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Prohibiting driving slow in left lane except under certain circumstances [HB-2999]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
The purpose of this bill is to change the time in which to pay charges levied for services by a county fire prevention unit from 75 days to 180 days.