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2008 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Transportation

Chairman: Yvonne B. Miller

Clerk: Bonnie W. Shelhorse
Staff: Alan Wambold, Caroline Stalker
Date of Meeting: February 21, 2008
Time and Place: 2 PM/Senate Room B

H.B. 2 License plates, special; eliminates fee to family of persons who have died in military service.

Patron: Tata

Special license plates for immediate family members of persons who have died in military service to their country; fees.  Eliminates the one-time $10 surcharge imposed for issuance of these plates.  This bill incorporates HB 23 (Oder), HB 61 (Poisson), HB 308 (Eisenberg), and HB 468 (Watts).

A BILL to amend and reenact § 2 of the second enactment of Chapter 852 and § 6 of the first enactment of Chapter 918 of the Acts of Assembly of 2006, relating to the fee charged for issuance of special license plates for immediate family members of persons who have died in military service to their country.

083515748

H.B. 111 Highway systems; revenue-sharing funds therefor in certain counties, cities, and towns.

Patron: Scott, E.T.

"Revenue-sharing" funds for highway systems in certain counties, cities, and towns.  Provides that, from additional revenues made available by the General Assembly after January 1, 2008, and appropriated for the improvement, construction, or reconstruction of the systems of state highways, the Commonwealth Transportation Board must make an equivalent matching allocation to any county, city, or town for designations by the governing body of up to $1 million in county, city, or town general funds for use by the county, city, or town to improve, construct, or reconstruct the highway systems within such county, city, or town. After adopting a resolution supporting the action, the governing body may request revenue-sharing funds to improve, construct, or reconstruct a highway system located in another locality, between two or more localities, or to bring subdivision streets, used as such prior to July 1, 1992, up to standards sufficient to qualify them for inclusion in the state primary and secondary system of highways. All requests for funding shall be accompanied by a prioritized listing of specific projects.  In allocating these funds, the Board must give priority (i) first when such project is administered by the county, city, or town, either directly or by contract with another entity, (ii) second when such county, city, or town commits more local funding than the amount of revenue-sharing funding requested, and (iii) third when the allocation will accelerate an existing project in the Six-Year Improvement Program or the locality's capital plans. Any funds remaining may be applied to any other project that requires an equivalent matching allocation from the governing body.  This bill incorporates HB 571 (Crockett-Stark) and HB 1286 (Athey).

A BILL to amend and reenact § 33.1-23.05 of the Code of Virginia, relating to revenue-sharing funds for highway systems in certain counties, cities, and towns.

083837716

H.B. 113 Disregarding signal to stop; endangerment of operation of law-enforcement vehicle, etc., penalty.

Patron: Ware, R.L.

Disregarding signal to stop; death of person; penalties.  Provides that if a law-enforcement officer is killed or suffers serious bodily injury, as a result of the actions of a driver who has disregarded an officer's signal to stop his motor vehicle and who operates his motor vehicle in a willful and wanton disregard of such signal so as to interfere with or endanger the operation of the law-enforcement vehicle or endanger a person, the driver is guilty of a Class 4 felony.  The bill also increases the penalty for disregarding a signal from a law-enforcement officer to stop or attempting to escape or elude a law-enforcement officer from a Class 3 misdemeanor to a Class 1 misdemeanor.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-817 of the Code of Virginia, relating to disregarding signal to stop; penalties.

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H.B. 131 Child-restraint devices in motor vehicles; penalties if convicted two or more times.

Patron: Lewis

Child restraints; penalties.  Provides escalating penalties for repeat violators of the child restraint law.  First time offenders will still be subject to the current civil penalty of fifty dollars, but those convicted of second or subsequent violations will be subject to a Class 3 misdemeanor penalty (fine up to $500).  A third or subsequent conviction may result in driver's license suspension for 30 days.

 

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1098 of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of child-restraint devices in motor vehicles; penalties.

083548596

H.B. 132 Handicap placards; fine for inappropriately displaying when parking in space for handicapped.

Patron: Ware, O.

Parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities; local ordinances.  Provides that the governing body of any city, county, or town may, by ordinance, provide for a lesser fine if there is a placard within a vehicle utilizing a parking space reserved for persons with disabilities, but that placard is not appropriately displayed.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1242 of the Code of Virginia, relating to parking in spaces reserved for persons with disabilities; penalty.

081046776

H.B. 147 Transportation Plan; to include regional goals and performance measures for highway districts.

Patron: Fralin

Statewide Transportation Plan.  Requires VDOT to collect and report certain statistical information.  This bill incorporates HB 977 (Shannon).

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 2.2-229 and 33.1-23.03 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment of the Secretary of Transportation and the Statewide Transportation Plan

083553504

H.B. 161 Traffic crimes; mandatory minimum fines.

Patron: Albo

Increased fines for traffic offenses.  Imposes mandatory minimum fine of $2,250 for DUI offenses and mandatory minimum fines of $2,500 to $3,000 for vehicle-related felonies.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 18.2-35, 18.2-36, 18.2-36.1, 18.2-51.4, 18.2-270, 46.2-341.19, 46.2-341.28, 46.2-357, 46.2-391, 46.2-817, 46.2-865.1, 46.2-868, and 46.2-894 of the Code of Virginia, relating to mandatory minimum fines for traffic crimes.

080534404

H.B. 269 License plates, special; issuance for supporters of Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital Foundatn.

Patron: Miller, P.J.

Special license plates; supporters of the Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital Foundation. Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to supporters of Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital 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 Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital Foundation to support its operation and programs in Virginia.

A BILL to authorize the issuance of special license plates to supporters of the Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital Foundation; fees.

083461644

H.B. 277 Traffic control measures; allows installation and application on secondary system components.

Patron: Watts

Traffic control measures.  Allows installation and application of traffic control measures on secondary system components in residence districts even if those components also provide access to business districts.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 33.1 a section numbered 33.1-223.2:18, relating to application and installation of traffic control measures on certain secondary highway system components.

083554784

H.B. 451 Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; increases membership.

Patron: Rust

Composition of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority.  Increases the membership from 16 to 17 by adding a town representative who shall serve as a nonvoting member.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-4832 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the composition of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority.

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H.B. 469 Driver's license, duplicate; waive fee if on active duty with armed forces outside boundary of U.S.

Patron: Watts

DMV fees.  Allows DMV to waive the fee that would have otherwise be imposed by the Department for issuance of a duplicate driver’s license if the person subject to the fee is on active duty with the armed forces of the United States outside the boundaries of the United States.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-214.2, relating to waiver of certain fees by Department.

086105784

H.B. 470 Loitering; prohibited in right-of-way of certain highways with posted signs.

Patron: Watts

Loitering in the rights-of-way of certain highways.  Prohibits loitering in the right-of-way of any highway on which the Commissioner or the local governing body has posted signs prohibiting such activity.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-930 of the Code of Virginia, relating to loitering in the rights-of-way of certain highways.

084516784

H.B. 523 Vehicle safety inspection; extends time for members of armed services.

Patron: Suit

Vehicle safety inspection; members of the armed services.  Extends time required to obtain a current vehicle inspection sticker for vehicles principally garaged outside the Commonwealth that return to or become operational in the Commonwealth from 24 to 72 hours for those vehicles whose registered owners are in the armed services and stationed outside Virginia.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1158.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to extension of validity of vehicle safety inspection stickers; armed services.

083518744

H.B. 525 Vehicle registration fees; exempts member and dependent of armed forces of United States.

Patron: Suit

Additional vehicle registration fees in certain localities.  Exempts from the additional registration fees vehicles being registered in a jurisdiction subject to the respective Authority by a member of the armed forces of the United States if the vehicle had previously been registered in a foreign country while the member of the armed forces of the United States was deployed overseas.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-755.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to additional vehicle registration fees in certain localities.

083476744

H.B. 534 Driver's license; State Police shall electronically transmit registry data of sex offenders to DMV.

Patron: Mathieson

Driver's license renewal; sex offenders.  Requires registered sex offenders to appear in person at the Department of Motor Vehicles for each driver's license renewal. This bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2009.

 

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-330 of the Code of Virginia, relating to expiration and renewal of driver's licenses; sex offenders.

083835618

H.B. 631 Special license plates; sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.

Patron: May

Special license plates; sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.  Authorizes the issuance of special license plates marking the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War.  In addition to the prescribed cost of state license plates, these plates will be subject to a one-time surcharge of $15; $5 of this $15 will be paid to the Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Commission to support its operation and programs in Virginia.  Minimum order requirements, etc., established by § 46.2-725 will not apply to these plates.  The authorization expires on July 1, 2015, the same date on which the Commission's mandate expires.

A BILL to authorize the issuance of special license plates marking the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War; fees.

083434854

H.B. 788 Highway maintenance payments; Arlington and Henrico Counties receive payments for roads.

Patron: Ingram

Highway maintenance payments to counties.  Allows counties that maintain their own secondary highways (Henrico and Arlington) and are more than 100 square miles in size to receive the same per-lane-mile maintenance payments provided for roads within urban transportation service districts in other counties.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 15.2-2403.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to urban transportation service districts; payments to counties that have withdrawn from the state secondary highway system.

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H.B. 885 Bus engine idling; extends to counties, etc. power to adopt ordinances limiting.

Patron: Toscano

Bus idling; local ordinances.  Allows all counties, cities, and towns to adopt ordinances limiting bus engine idling.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1224.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local ordinances regulating parking of certain vehicles.

083551752

H.B. 1013 Newman Road; designating as State byway in Fairfax County.

Patron: Hugo

Newman Road.  Designates the entire length of Newman Road in Fairfax County a Virginia byway.

A BILL to designate the entire length of Newman Road in Fairfax County a Virginia byway.

086972548

H.B. 1014 High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes; use by vehicles bearing special fuel vehicle license plates.

Patron: Hugo

HOV lanes; clean special fuel vehicles.  Extends until July 1, 2010, the "sunset" the provision allowing vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates to use HOV lanes regardless of the number of their passengers.  This bill incorporates HB 342 (Plum).

A BILL to amend and reenact § 33.1-46.2, as it is currently effective, of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of high-occupancy vehicle lanes by vehicles bearing clean special fuel license plates.

083517548

H.B. 1015 Motor vehicle air conditioners; allows explosive, flammable, or toxic refrigerants.

Patron: Hugo

Motor vehicle air conditioners.  Allows explosive, flammable, or toxic refrigerants in motor vehicle air conditioners if the refrigerant is included in the list published by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as a safe alternative motor vehicle air conditioning substitute for chloroflourocarbon-12.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1088 of the Code of Virginia, relating to motor vehicle air conditioning units; use of explosive, flammable, or toxic refrigerants.

088671548

H.B. 1024 Military personnel; extension of deadlines for driver's license renewal, etc.

Patron: Frederick

Military personnel; extension of deadlines.  Extends driver's license renewal, license plate registration, local vehicle registration, property tax, and other state and local tax deadlines until 90 days after return from deployment for military personnel.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 46.2-221.2, 46.2-221.4, 46.2-752, 58.1-341, and 58.1-3916 of the Code of Virginia, relating to extension of deadlines for certain military personnel.

080787508

H.B. 1032 Traffic control measures; financing for application and installation.

Patron: Frederick

Traffic control measures.  Provides that nothing in Title 33.1 is to be construed to prevent the acceptance by the Department of Transportation of private financing for the application and installation of traffic control measures.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 15 of Chapter 1 of Title 33.1 a section numbered 33.1-223.2:18, relating to acceptance by the Department of Transportation of private financing for the application and installation of traffic control measures.

080784508

H.B. 1218 School buses; prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating.

Patron: Bowling

Wireless telecommunications devices.  Prohibits use of wireless telecommunications devices by persons operating school buses, except in emergencies, or when the vehicle is lawfully parked and for the purposes of dispatching.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Article 14 of Chapter 8 of Title 46.2 a section numbered 46.2-919.1, relating to use of wireless telecommunications devices by school bus drivers.

083547436

H.B. 1245 Driver's license; certain restrictions for first-time applicants failing behind wheel three times.

Patron: Hugo

Driver's licenses.  Provides that no person will be allowed to take the behind-the-wheel examination for a driver's license administered by DMV more than three times in any three-month period.  The bill further provides that no person who fails the behind-the-wheel examination for a driver's license administered by DMV three times shall be permitted to take such examination a fourth time until he successfully complete the in-vehicle component of driver instruction at a driver training school.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 46.2-325, 46.2-335, and 46.2-341.14 of the Code of Virginia, relating to obtaining driver's licenses.

083840548

H.B. 1320 Public road easements; maintenance of certain roads not abandoned.

Patron: May

Road easements; maintenance and improvements.  Provides that any property owner, along a road that serves as the primary means of ingress and egress to more than one property, may maintain, repair, or improve the road without the express permission of the other property owners.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 55-50.3, relating to the maintenance of certain public roads that have not been abandoned.

083545620

H.B. 1407 Restricted driver's license; issuance to operate motor vehicle during period of suspension

Patron: Dance

Suspended license; unpaid fines. Authorizes the issuance for good cause shown and upon verification of employment of a six-month restricted permit to operate a motor vehicle during a period of suspension for unpaid fines and costs.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-395 of the Code of Virginia, relating to suspended license; unpaid fines.

080877484

H.B. 1478 Pedestrian control signals; abide by words or symbols displayed thereon.

Patron: Toscano

Pedestrian control signals.  Requires pedestrians to obey signals exhibiting the words, numbers, or symbols meaning “Walk” or “Don’t Walk.”

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-925 of the Code of Virginia, relating to pedestrian control signals.

089850752

H.B. 1516 Public-Private Transportation Act; prohibits private entity from imposing tolls on Interstates.

Patron: Gilbert

Public-Private Transportation Act; tolls on Interstate highways.  Prohibits a private entity from imposing tolls or user fees under the Public-Private Transportation Act on any rural portion of I-81 without the prior approval of the General Assembly.  This bill incorporates HB 1515 (Gilbert).

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 33.1-23.03:10 and 56-565 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995; tolls on rural Interstate highways.

083525516

H.B. 1551 Overweight and overload permits; creates fee schedules therefor to help recover maintenance costs.

Patron: Bowling

Vehicle overweight and overload permits; fee structure. Requires the Department of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Motor Vehicles, to review the current fee structure applied to overload and overweight vehicles. From July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009, the annual overweight permit fee will be $265.

A BILL to authorize the review of the current fee structure applied to vehicles operating under permits for weight pursuant to Articles 17 and 18 of Chapter 10 of Title 46.2 of the Code of Virginia and to amend and reenact the second enactment of Chapter 738 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007, relating to vehicle weights; fee structure.

083834436

H.B. 1557 Mopeds; limitations on operation of mopeds.

Patron: Cline

Mopeds. Provides that a person who operates a moped in excess of 35 miles per hour will be deemed to be operating a motorcycle.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-914 of the Code of Virginia, relating to limitations on operation of mopeds; penalty.

083533464

H.B. 1572 Comprehensive highway access management standards; implementation.

Patron: Hull

Comprehensive highway access management standards; implementation. Requires that the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner promulgate comprehensive highway access management standards in phases. Those standards relating to principal arterial roads shall become effective on July 1, 2008, and those relating to minor arterial roads shall become effective on October 1, 2009. The Commissioner will be subject to the Administrative Process Act for those regulations effective on October 1, 2009.

A BILL to authorize promulgation of the comprehensive highway access management standards in phases and to amend and reenact the second, third, and fourth enactments of Chapter 863 and Chapter 928 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007, relating to comprehensive highway access management standards; implementation.

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