Roads And Transportation
West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Establishing Comprehensive Highway Paving Plan [HB-2990]
[Infrastructure ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[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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Allowing the Division of Highways to contract out snow removal to private companies on secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties. [HB-2960]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
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
To require railroad companies to provide alternative entry and exit ways [HB-2878]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
[Public Health ]
The purpose of this bill is to require railroad companies to provide an alternative entry and exit way to one road communities when performing maintenance, repairs, and construction as a matter of public health and safety.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To place rumble strips on all double-yellow lined roads and highways. [HB-2923]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to require rumble strips on double-yellow lined highways when upgrading the highway .
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to road maintenance and repair [HB-2888]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
The purpose of this bill relates generally to road maintenance and repair.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Exempting ambulances from tolls [HB-2862]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to exempt certain emergency service vehicles from the payment of tolls.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to pedestrians standing in or near the right of way [HB-2892]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit pedestrians from standing in roadways or right of ways.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Exempting county school buses from paying the toll fees [HB-2915]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
The purpose of this bill is to exempt school buses from having to pay toll fees.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To remove the helmet law in West Virginia. [HB-2739]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to remove the helmet requirement from motorcycle safety equipment.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Authorizing municipalities to place signage on state roads within their municipal jurisdiction and boundaries. [HB-2686]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Community Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to authorize municipalities to place signage on state roads within their municipal jurisdiction and boundaries.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Providing guidelines for the West Virginia Parkways Authority to cease tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike upon completion of all bond payments [HB-2643]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
The purpose of this bill is to cease tolls on the West Virginia Turnpike upon completion of all bond payments.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to school zones of public or private schools [HB-2678]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify that school zones include private schools that have requested the Division of Highways to designate a school zone.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Requiring certain non-discretionary procedures be strictly complied with by the West Virginia Parkways Authority before tolls, rents, fees or charges may be increased [HB-2645]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
The purpose of this bill is to require certain non-discretionary procedures be strictly complied with by the West Virginia Parkways Authority before tolls, rents, fees or charges may be increased.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Eliminating specific statutory restrictions on outdoor advertisement [HB-2676]
[Media and Advertising ]
The purpose of this bill is to eliminate specific statutory restrictions on outdoor advertisement.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Ensure State Road Construction Account funds are in addition to general highways funds provided to the DOT districts [HB-2644]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
The purpose of this bill is to ensure that funding to counties named in this section from the State Road Construction Account does not affect any funding received by those counties from the State Road Fund.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To require all stop lights in WV to be reprogrammed to add a 3 second pause between when one set of lights turns red and the opposite set of lights turns green [HB-2655]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to require that a three-second pause be added to all traffic-control lights and devices.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to offense of driving above speed limit on controlled access highway or interstate highway [SB-553]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide that if a person is convicted of the offense of driving above the speed limit on a controlled access highway or interstate highway and was driving at 10 miles per hour or less above the speed limit, a certified abstract of the judgment on the conviction is transmitted to the Division of Motor Vehicles division may not be recorded..
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Eliminating the authority of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to issue further parkway revenue, parkway revenue refunding, or special obligation bonds after July 1, 2024 [HB-2675]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the authority of the West Virginia Parkways Authority to issue further parkway revenue, parkway revenue refunding, or special obligation bonds after July 1, 2025. The bill also provides that subsequent to that date, no new bonds may be issued.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts [HB-2703]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Construction ]
The purpose of this bill is to incentivize counties to utilize local revenue sources for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, and maintaining roads and rights-of-way within said counties by requiring the state road commissioner to set aside 20 percent of the state road fund for the purpose of reimbursing said counties on a matching basis and to require the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts, for the benefit of the counties; to make legislative findings; to require the commissioner to solicit
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Requiring the approval of the Legislature and the Governor before additional bonds may be issued by the Parkways Authority [HB-2667]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
The purpose of this bill is to require the approval of the Legislature and the Governor before additional bonds may be issued by the Parkways Authority; and requiring tolls to be removed six months following removal of encumbrances for the bonds.