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2004 SESSION
Chairman: Martin E. Williams
Clerk: Bonnie W. Shelhorse
Date of Meeting: March 4, 2004
Time and Place: 2:00 pm/Senate Room A/GAB
Patron: Orrock
Special license plates; supporters of adoption programs; fees. Authorizes issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of adoption programs. The annual fee for these plates will be$25 in addition to the prescribed fee for state license plates. For each such $25 fee collected in excess of 1,000 registrations, $15 will be paid into the state treasury and be paid annually to the Virginia Department of Social Services and used (i) to support its adoption programs and (ii) to develop a grants program that shall provide all licensed Virginia nonprofit child-placing services a means to apply for portions of these funds to support their child placement programs and activities in Virginia.
Patron: Morgan
Posting of penalties for violations involving transportation of municipal solid waste. Requires all landfills accepting commercial vehicles carrying municipal solid waste to post the penalties for violating the section of the Code that requires that loads not escape from vehicles and that some loads be covered.
Patron: Cox
Special license plates; general registrars. Relocates authorization of issuance of special license plates for general registrars from § 46.2-746.9 to § 46.2-737. The effect of this change is to exempt these plates from the requirement for submission of at least 350 prepaid applications prior to issuance.
Patron: McQuigg
Special license plates; 200th anniversary of the Town of Occoquan. Authorizes issuance of special license plates commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Town of Occoquan. The provisions of this bill are also contained in SB 21 (Puller).
Patron: Morgan
Examination of licensees; confidential sources of information. Adds pharmacists and other licensed medical professionals who are treating the driver or prescribing him medications to those sources of information about a driver's mental and physical capacity that the Department of Motor Vehicles shall keep confidential.
Patron: Lingamfelter
Special license plates; members of the American Legion. Reauthorizes issuance of special license plates for members of the American Legion by repealing authorization in § 46.2-746.4 and granting new authorization in § 46.2-746.4:01. These plates were authorized by the 1995 Session of the General Assembly, but fewer than 100 sets of these plates are still in use. This reauthorization will enable the Department of Motor Vehicles to accept new applications for these plates.
Patron: Watts
Special license plates; members and associates of court-appointed special advocacy programs. Amends present law authorizing issuance of special license plates to members and associates of the Virginia Court Appointed Special Advocate Association to authorize issuance of special license plates to members and associates of court-appointed special advocate programs, instead.
Patron: Reid
Utility trailers; study. Requires that reflectors or reflectorized material be affixed to the rear of certain utility trailers. The bill also requires the Transportation Research Council to study whether the provisions of the bill have reduced the frequency with which these utility trailers are struck from behind by other vehicles.
Patron: Dudley
Special license plates bearing the names, numbers, and color schemes used by professional stock car drivers; fees. Authorizes the issuance of one or more series of special license plates bearing the name of a specific professional stock car driver and the race car number and color scheme used by that driver.
Each driver-specific series developed and issued under this section shall be subject to the requirements of this section. In the event that a race car number, color scheme, or both, change for a driver with a currently issued series, a new series for that driver may be issued subject to the requirements of this section.
The annual fee for these plates will be $25 in addition to the prescribed fee for state license plates. For each such $25 fee collected in excess of 1,000 registrations pursuant to this bill, $15 will be paid annually in equal amounts to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority and the Virginia Department of Business Assistance and used to support their programs related to the Virginia Motor Sports Initiative. This bill incorporates HB 808 (O. Ware).
Patron: Gear
Special license plates. Reauthorizes the issuance of special license plates bearing the legend: LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE.
Patron: O'Bannon
Special license plates; supporters of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation; fees. Authorizes the issuance of "revenue sharing" special license plates to supporters of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25, instead of the standard $10 for most other nonrevenue-sharing special license plates. For each set of plates issued (after the first 1,000 sets), $15 will go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to support its programs and activities in Virginia.
Patron: McDougle
Special license plates; 350th anniversary of the County of New Kent. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates commemorating the 350th anniversary of the County of New Kent.
Patron: Wardrup
Tolls on I-81. Repeals the third enactment of Chapter 593 of the Acts of Assembly of 2002 to provide that, if tolls are imposed for the use of Interstate Route 81 (I-81), all vehicles will be subject to the toll. The repealed enactment exempts passenger cars, pickup or panel trucks, and motorcycles from the toll.
Patron: Phillips
Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road. Designates certain highways in Southwest Virginia "Virginia's Heritage Music Trail: The Crooked Road.”
Patron: Phillips
Country Music Highway. Designates that portion of U.S. 23 lying within Wise, Lee, and Scott Counties the "Country Music Highway.”
Patron: Phillips
Special license plates; Boy Scouts of America. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to supporters of the Boy Scouts of America.
Patron: Barlow
Special license plates for bicycle enthusiasts. Authorizes the issuance of special license plate to bicycle enthusiasts. This bill incorporates HB 426 (Watts).
Patron: Barlow
Special license plates; U.S. Navy chief petty officers. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to persons who are or have been chief petty officers in the U.S. Navy.
Patron: Moran
Special license plates; retired law-enforcement officers. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for retired sworn law-enforcement officers.
Patron: Morgan
Virginia byway. Designates U.S. Route 17 from Tappahannock to Spotsylvania County a Virginia byway.
Patron: Frederick
Special license plates; 275th anniversary of the County of Prince William. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates commemorating the 275th anniversary of the County of Prince William.
Patron: Bryant
Monacan Bridge. Designates the Lynchburg bypass bridge across the James River between Amherst County and the City of Lynchburg the “Monacan Bridge” and designates the Virginia Route 168 drawbridge across the intercostal waterway in the City of Chesapeake the Malcolm J. Forbes, Sr., Bridge.
Patron: Hogan
Special license plates; supporters of Project Lifesaver. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates to supporters of Project Lifesaver.
Patron: Reid
Special license plates; Mothers Against Drunk Driving; fees. Authorizes the issuance of "revenue sharing" special license plates to supporters of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The annual surcharge for these plates would be $25, instead of the standard $10 for most other nonrevenue-sharing special license plates. For each set of plates issued (after the first 1,000 sets), $15 will go to Mothers Against Drunk Driving to support its programs and activities in Virginia.
Patron: Saxman
Lane restrictions for certain commercial vehicles on certain highways. Requires that, on Interstate Route 81, commercial motor vehicles not use the left-most lane. The bill also requires that commercial motor vehicles keep to the right-most lane when operating at a speed of 15 miles per hour or more below the posted speed limit on an interstate highway with no more than two lanes in each direction.
Patron: Fralin
Tolls. In order to provide an incentive for motorists to travel at off-peak hours, on highways controlled by the Virginia Department of Transportation, the amount of the toll may vary according to the time of day, day of the week, traffic volume, or any or all of these variables. The amount of the toll and the time of day when such toll changes shall be fixed and revised by the Commonwealth Transportation Board; however, the variation must be reasonably calculated to minimize the impact on toll revenue generated by the toll.
Patron: McDougle
Access to DMV records. Provides for access to records of the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for authorized representative of an insurance company or of any not-for-profit entity organized to prevent and detect insurance fraud, conduct claims investigations, or perform rating and underwriting activities. No such information shall be used for solicitation of sales, marketing, or other commercial purposes.
Patron: Armstrong
Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway, World War II Veterans Memorial Highway, Vietnam War Veterans Memorial Highway. Designates the entire length of Interstate Route 64 in Virginia as the "Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway," the entire length of Interstate Route 81 in Virginia as the "World War II Veterans Memorial Highway," and the entire length of Interstate Route 95 in Virginia as the "Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway." The Department of Transportation is required to place and maintain appropriate markers indicating the designations of these highways; however, the cost of initially placing these markers must be paid from private sources.
Patron: Marshall, D.W.
Local transportation district for Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Provides for the creation of a local transportation district within Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Such district could be used to facilitate the construction of a U.S. Route 29 bypass.
Patron: Phillips
Motor vehicle safety inspection stations. Requires each motor vehicle safety station to have garage liability insurance in the amount of at least $500,000 with an insurance company licensed to write such insurance in this Commonwealth.
Patron: Howell, A.T.
Special license plates; Interdenominational Children's Foundation of Virginia. Reauthorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of the Interdenominational Children's Foundation of Virginia. This legislation was originally passed in 2003 (Chapter 972, 2003 Acts of Assembly).