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2008 SPECIAL SESSION II

083595472
HOUSE BILL NO. 6020
Offered June 23, 2008
A BILL to require the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation to solicit proposals for certain transportation improvements in Hampton Roads.
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Patron-- Cosgrove
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  § 1. Within 90 days of the effective date of this act, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) shall develop and distribute requests for proposals for the following under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995 (§ 56-556 et seq. of the Code of Virginia), either as concession agreements or otherwise:

1. Construction of the Third Crossing of Hampton Roads, linking the City of Newport News to the City of Suffolk and the City of Norfolk;

2. Construction of the Southeastern Expressway/Dominion Boulevard system in the City of Chesapeake and the City of Virginia Beach;

3. Replacement of U.S. Route 460 from Bowers Hill in the City of Chesapeake to the City of Petersburg with a controlled access highway;

4. Widening of Interstate Route 64 in the City of Chesapeake from Battlefield Boulevard to Bowers Hill, including the High Rise Bridge over the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River;

5. Widening of Interstate Route 64 from Bland Boulevard in the City of Newport News to Virginia Route 199 in James City County;

6. Expansion of the Midtown Tunnel between the City of Norfolk and the City of Portsmouth; and

7. Expansion of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel between the City of Hampton and the City of Norfolk by construction of a third bridge-tunnel structure.

§ 2. All requests for proposals developed and distributed pursuant to this act shall allow for individual project submissions, multiple project submissions, and cooperative agreements from corporations that may wish to cooperate in responding to these requests for proposals.

All such requests for proposals shall be issued by VDOT under this act shall require that proposals submitted in response to such requests within 60 days of the issuance of the request for proposal to which it is a response.

§ 3. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995, all proposals submitted pursuant to this act shall be reviewed by a committee comprised as follows:

Three members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board appointed by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner; one Senator from the Peninsula and one Senator from Southside Hampton Roads, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules; two Delegates from the Peninsula and two Delegates from Southside Hampton Roads, appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates; the Virginia Secretary of Transportation; the District Administrator of the Suffolk highway construction district; the chairman of the Hampton Roads Metropolitan Planning Organization; and two residents of Hampton Roads, appointed by the Governor.

This committee will review the proposals and make a recommendation to the General Assembly, VDOT and the Commonwealth Transportation Board no later than 60 days after submissions are closed.