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2009 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: January 15, 2009
Time and Place: 2 PM/Senate Room B/GAB

S.B. 803

Patron: Miller, Y.B.

Off-road motorcycles.  Prohibits operation of off-road motorcycles on the highways.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-915.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to operation of off-road motorcycles.

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S.B. 807

Patron: Lucas

Mobile camps for railroad employees.  Establishes standards for rooms at terminals and headquarters, permanent assembly points, and mobile work camps provided by a railroad company for employees and contractors.  Railroad companies are required to provide drinking water at assembly points where maintenance-of-way employees meet.  The Board of Health is required to adopt regulations concerning mobile camps.  The State Corporation Commission is responsible for investigating reports of failures to comply with the requirements.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 6 of Title 32.1 an article numbered 6.1, consisting of sections numbered 32.1-211.1 through 32.1-211.3, and by adding a section numbered 56-129.2, relating to the health and safety of railroad maintenance-of-way employees and contractors; regulation of mobile camps and other facilities.

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S.B. 809

Patron: Puller

Special license plates; members and supporters of the International Association of Fire Fighters.  Authorizes the issuance of revenue-sharing special license plates to members and supporters of the International Association of Fire Fighters.  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 International Association of Fire Fighters to support its operation and programs in Virginia.

A BILL to authorize the issuance of special license plates to members and supporters of the International Association of Fire Fighters; fees.

093469304

S.B. 836

Patron: Lucas

Toll Facilities Revolving Account.  Provides that any balance remaining on any loan issued to a political subdivision from funds in the Toll Facilities Revolving Account shall either be repaid in full or assumed as a loan issued pursuant to this bill by any private entity who enters into a comprehensive agreement with a responsible public entity for construction of a qualifying transportation facility if (i) such comprehensive agreement authorizes the issuance of tolls on a portion of such qualifying transportation facility; (ii) the qualifying transportation facility is included in the same Record of Decision or Revised Record of Decision issued by the Federal Highway Administration as that issued for the project financed by such loan; (iii) no tolls were imposed upon completion of construction of the project financed by such loan; and (iv) such political subdivision pledged to repay such loan from its annual allocation of construction funds for urban system highways as authorized by the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 33.1-23.03:4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Toll Facilities Revolving Account.

098179260

S.B. 864

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 further abolishes the Rail Advisory Board and repeals Chapter 1041 of the 2003 Acts of Assembly, which provided for the creation of a Rail Transportation Development Authority, but never became effective, because it included a reenactment clause, and the act was not reenacted.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 2.2-2101, as it is currently effective and as it shall become effective, and § 33.1-221.1:1.1 of the Code of Virginia; to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Title 33.1 a chapter numbered 10.1:1, consisting of sections numbered 33.1-391.5:1 through 33.1-391.5:5; and to repeal § 33.1-391.3:1 of the Code of Virginia and Chapter 1041 of the Acts of Assembly of 2003, relating to the Rail Transportation Development Authority and the Rail Advisory Board.

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S.B. 882

Patron: Stuart

Regulation of parking on public highways.  Adds Stafford County to the list of counties and towns that may by ordinance regulate the parking of (i) watercraft, (ii) boat trailers, (iii) motor homes, and (iv) camping trailers.  The bill also replaces several circumlocutions with the names of the localities to which those circumlocutions apply.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1222.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulation or prohibition of parking of certain vehicles in certain counties and towns.

091123333

S.B. 889

Patron: McDougle

Operation of a motor vehicle without an ignition interlock; penalty. Provides that operation of a motor vehicle without an ignition interlock when such operation is prohibited is a Class 1 misdemeanor and that the person's operator's license shall be revoked for one year.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 46.2-389 and 46.2-391.01 of the Code of Virginia, relating to penalty for driving without an ignition interlock.

090412272

S.B. 899

Patron: McDougle

Distribution of handbills, etc, on highways and in public roadways and medians.  Adds Spotsylvania County to the list of localities that may prohibit distribution of handbills, etc., to occupants of motor vehicles on highways and adds Hanover County to the list of localities that may adopt ordinances regulating the distribution of handbills, etc., to occupants of motor vehicles on public roadways and medians.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-931 of the Code of Virginia, relating to regulation of distribution of handbills, etc, on public highways, roadways, and medians.

093478272

S.B. 911

Patron: Stuart

Golf carts; operation on the highways.  Allows the governing body of the Town of Irvington to authorize operation of golf carts on the highways of the Town, subject to limits of general law.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-916.2 of the Code of Virginia, relating to designation of public highways for golf cart and utility vehicle operations

091124333

S.B. 937

Patron: Cuccinelli

Vehicle license plates. Provides for display of one license plate on vehicles.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 46.2-711 and 46.2-715 of the Code of Virginia, relating to display of vehicle license plates.

093827216

S.B. 970

Patron: Blevins

Safety belts.  Makes non-use of safety belts a primary offense.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1094 of the Code of Virginia, relating to use of safety lap belts and shoulder harnesses.

097750204

S.B. 974

Patron: Stuart

Golf carts; crossing highways in Colonial Beach.  Amends the provision allowing golf carts to cross highways with 35 mph speed limits at traffic lights in Colonial Beach by removing the reference to traffic lights.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-916.3 of the Code of Virginia, relating to operation of golf carts on the highways.

093533333

S.B. 979

Patron: Stuart

Transportation; fuel fee.  Allows authorities to pass an ordinance that would impose a fee, not to exceed $10, on all motor vehicle violations. Such fee shall go to the locality for the purpose of purchasing fuel for local law-enforcement vehicles.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1308 of the Code of Virginia, relating to disposition of fees in traffic cases.

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S.B. 992

Patron: Miller, J.C.

Red warning lights on vehicles.  Updates the existing authorization for use of red warning lights on security vehicles of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company by changing the name to Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc. Also, an obsolete reference to "Tultex Corporation" is deleted.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1023 of the Code of Virginia, relating to equipping vehicles with red or red and white warning lights.

093528275

S.B. 995

Patron: Miller, J.C.

Hampton Roads Transportation Authority.  Abolishes the Authority and the taxes, fees, and charges dedicated to financing its operation and programs.  The bill also makes several technical changes.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 33.1-23.03, 58.1-811, 58.1-2403, 58.1-2425, and 58.1-3221.3 of the Code of Virginia, to amend and reenact the sixteenth enactment of Chapter 896 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007, and to repeal Chapter 10.2 (§§ 33.1-391.6 through 33.1-391.15) of Title 33.1 and §§ 46.2-755.1, 46.2-755.2, 46.2-1167.1, 58.1-625.1, 58.1-802.1, 58.1-1724.3, 58.1-1724.5, 58.1-1724.6, 58.1-1724.7, and 58.1-2402.1 of the Code of Virginia and the fifth, sixth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and nineteenth enactments of Chapter 896 of the Acts of Assembly of 2007, relating to the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority and taxes, fees, and charges dedicated to financing its operation and programs.

098392275

S.B. 997

Patron: Miller, J.C.

Trespassing vehicle; towing; local ordinances.  Provides that local ordinances requiring "second signatures" before trespassing vehicles can be towed away only apply if the tow is performed during the normal business hours of the owner of the property from which the vehicle is towed.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-1232 of the Code of Virginia, relating to local regulation of removal and immobilization of trespassing vehicles.

098399275