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2005 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Transportation

Chairman: Martin E. Williams

Clerk: Bonnie W. Shelhorse
Staff: Alan Wambold, Stephanie Bishop
Date of Meeting: January 13, 2005
Time and Place: 2:00 pm/Senate Room B

S.B. 706 Mopeds; requires riders to wear helmets.

Patron: Puller

Mopeds.  Allows local governments to require moped riders to wear helmets.

S.B. 721 Traffic signals; use of photo-monitoring in Roanoke City.

Patron: Edwards

"Photo-red" traffic light signal enforcement.  Adds Roanoke City to the list of localities authorized to have a "photo-red" traffic light signal enforcement program. The bill also eliminates the July 1, 2005 "sunset" for "photo-red" programs and provides that a contract between a locality and a private entity cannot include provisions for the payment or compensation to the private entity based on the number of violations, or as a percentage of revenue generated as the result of the violations detected by use of the photo-monitoring equipment.

S.B. 732 Traffic signals; use of photo-monitoring systems in any locality.

Patron: Colgan

Photo-monitoring systems to enforce traffic light signals. Expands photo-monitoring systems for traffic signal enforcement to all of Virginia instead of specified localities.

S.B. 750 Rail Transportation Development Authority; created.

Patron: Edwards

Rail Transportation Development Authority.  Establishes the Rail Transportation Development Authority. The Authority is to be responsible for identifying needed construction, reconstruction, improvements, or repairs to railroads and their facilities and equipment. The Authority is given the power to finance or assist in financing any such rail transportation project. The bill requires the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation, in conjunction with the Authority, to develop a rail transportation plan for the Commonwealth. The bill also repeals Chapter 1041 of the 2003 Acts of Assembly, which provided for the creation of a Rail Transportation Development Authority. That act never became effective because it included a "reenactment clause," and the act was not reenacted by the 2004 Session.

S.B. 768 License plates, special; authorization by Transportation Board.

Patron: Bell

Special license plates.  Vests responsibility for authorization of special license plates with the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

S.B. 774 Speed limits; may be set on nonsurface treated highways in Montgomery County. %A0

Patron: Bell

Speed limits.  Adds Montgomery County to the list of counties within which the maximum speed limits on nonsurface treated roads is 35 miles per hour, unless increased or decreased by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner.

S.B. 780 Traffic signals; extends sunset on use of photo-monitoring systems.

Patron: Mims

"Photo-red" programs. Postpones the July 1, 2005, "sunset" on local "photo-red" programs to July 1, 2007.

S.B. 784 Driver's licenses; prohibits use of cell phones by persons less than 19 years old.

Patron: Mims

Youthful drivers.  Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by holders of provisional driver's licenses while operating motor vehicles. The bill also eliminates the "secondary offense" provision of the section dealing with operators holding provisional driver's licenses.

S.B. 789 Special identification cards.

Patron: Obenshain

Special identification cards.  Provides that special identification cards issued by DMV for persons less than 15 years old will expire on the person's 16th birthday.

S.B. 815 "Photo-toll" toll collection programs.

Patron: Williams

"Photo-toll" toll collection programs.  Authorizes "photo toll" facilities to record images of all vehicles whose operators choose to use the facilities and bill the registered owners of vehicles as to which no toll is paid, prior to pursuing other remedies.

S.B. 816 Toll facility operators; postpones sunset provision for release of personal data by DMV.

Patron: Williams

Release of personal data by the Department of Motor Vehicles to toll facility operators and toll technology entities.  Postpones until July 1, 2012, the "sunset" on 2004 legislation that allowed the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to enter into agreements with private toll facility operators or toll collection technology entities to enable them to obtain from the Department of Motor Vehicles personal information in order to conduct motor vehicle research relating to methods of electronic toll collection. The original "sunset" was July 1, 2005.

S.B. 818 Flashing headlights.

Patron: Williams

Flashing headlights.  Allows emergency vehicles to flash headlights after dark.

S.B. 819 Motor fuel drive-off; penalty.  

Patron: Williams

Motor fuel drive-off; penalty.  Raises the penalty to $250 from $100 for driving off without paying for motor fuel. The bill also creates a rebuttable presumption that the registered owner or lessee of the vehicle was the person who failed to pay for the motor fuel, unless the vehicle was previously reported as stolen.

S.B. 822 Flashing vehicle headlights.

Patron: Williams

Flashing vehicle headlights.  Makes permanent the temporary authorization for emergency vehicles in City of Chesapeake, the City of Poquoson, and the County of York to flash their headlights after dark.

S.B. 823 Motor vehicle rear-view camera systems. 

Patron: Williams

Motor vehicle rear-view camera systems.  Allows use of closed circuit video monitors in vehicles other than trucks and motor homes.

S.B. 835 Motor vehicle insurance.

Patron: Quayle

Motor vehicle insurance.  Provides that if a motor vehicle is an insured motor vehicle for only part of the year, it will, nevertheless, be deemed an "insured motor vehicle" and the owner will not be required to pay the fee for registration of an uninsured motor vehicle provided it is not operated on the public highway while uninsured.

S.B. 852 Vehicle safety inspections; frequency.

Patron: Cuccinelli

Vehicle safety inspections; frequency. Requires vehicles to undergo safety inspections once every 24 months instead of once every 12 months.

S.B. 924 Modified vehicles.

Patron: Blevins

Modified vehicles.  Applies to pickup or panel trucks the same bumper height limitations presently applicable to passenger vehicles.

S.B. 925 Obscene videos in motor vehicles; penalty. 

Patron: Blevins

Obscene videos in motor vehicles; penalty.  Makes it unlawful (Class 4 misdemeanor, fine up to $250) for the operator of any motor vehicle to display or permit the display within the vehicle of any motion picture or video display that is either obscene or harmful to minors if such motion picture or video display can be seen by persons outside the vehicle.