Roads And Transportation
West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To permit bridges and highways to be named for distinct residential communities that are traditionally identified by a single name as a separate community or town without being incorporated and remain a part of the county services., naming these communities as villages [HB-5657]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Community Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow county commissions to designate certain distinct residential communities as villages. The bill does not interfere with the existing classification of villages for tax purposes.
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Relating generally to DOH employees. [HB-5679]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
The purpose of this bill is to modify the compensation and classification of certain employees of the Division of Highways.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Permitting the Commissioner of the Division of Highways to issue a special permit to operate or move a vehicle or combination of vehicles of a size or weight of vehicles or nondivisible load exceeding the maximum specified [HB-5583]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Relating of movement of oversized vehicles on roadways
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to requiring certain reporting from the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority each year [HB-5544]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Recreation ]
The purpose of this bill is to require certain reporting from the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority each year and beginning on December 1, 2024.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to time limits imposed on the Division of Highways to grant a highway entrance permit [HB-5437]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
The purpose of this bill is to impose a time limit for the Department of Highways to grant an entrance permit for work on a highway, to describe the time limit for requested changes, and to describe when a permit shall be considered approved.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Exempting law enforcement and emergency vehicles from paying turnpike tolls [HB-5438]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to exempt law enforcement and emergency vehicles from paying turnpike tolls.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Authorizing the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways to offer locality pay to Division of Highways employees working in certain jurisdictions [HB-5434]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
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 2024 Regular Session
Exempt WV public school buses transporting students from tolls on WV Turnpike [HB-5428]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to exempt school buses with students on board from paying turnpike tolls.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To place a $1.00 charge on Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Door Dash, and all like services with the proceeds to be disbursed to the WVDOH and equally applied to each Counties Annual Budget. [HB-5403]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Taxes ]
[Funding ]
The purpose of this bill is to place a $1.00 charge on Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, Door Dash, and all like services with the proceeds to be disbursed to the WVDOH and equally applied to each county's annual budget.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating generally to the modification of vehicle tires. [HB-5385]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
The purpose of this bill is to regulate the modification of vehicle tires.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Requiring any motorized conveyance operating 10 MPH below the posted speed limit on any public road in the state to display emergency flashers. [HB-5387]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to require a motor vehicle to display emergency flashers when operating at 10 miles per hour below the posted speed limit on any public road.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating generally to asphalt grindings or millings from any WVDOH Right of Way [HB-5388]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Construction ]
The purpose of this bill is to specify how the commissioner of highways may dispose of surplus asphalt grindings or millings.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating generally to “Flagger Ahead” signs and flaggers on public roads in the State of West Virginia. [HB-5386]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
The purpose of this bill is to create expectations for the removal of "flagger ahead" signs on WV roadways.
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West Virginia 2024 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 red [HB-5313]
[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 2024 Regular Session
To establish a $100 per year penalty for inaccurate signage posted on interstates for industrial and commercial/business parks that are not near the interstate exits [HB-5323]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit inaccurate signage along interstates. The bill provides for a penalty.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prohibiting driving slow in left lane except under certain circumstances [HB-5237]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to requiring operators of vehicles to drive in rightmost portion or lane of roads or highways.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Allowing municipalities to complete work previously requested to DOH [SB-569]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Infrastructure ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow municipalities to complete work previously requested to the Division of Highways, with a provision for payment.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Requiring a warning light to be erected on certain roads to warn of a traffic light ahead [HB-5109]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to require that a warning light be erected on certain roads to warn of a traffic light ahead.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To amend the provisions related to transportation including transportation reinvestment zones, public transit districts, local option sales and use taxes, transportation governance, and a road usuage charge program [HB-4927]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Energy ]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Road Usage Charge Pilot Program.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Adding a limitation on vehicular length for certain stretches of highway [HB-4942]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a vehicle or combination of vehicles coupled together, whose length is in excess of 50 feet travelling on Route 61 between Oak Hill and Montgomery.