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2009 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL NO. 2470
Offered January 14, 2009
Prefiled January 14, 2009
A BILL to amend and reenact § 58.1-815.1 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund; dedication of state matching funds for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
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Patron-- Hugo
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Referred to Committee on Finance
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1.  That § 58.1-815.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§ 58.1-815.1. Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund.

A. There is hereby created in the Department of the Treasury a special nonreverting fund which shall be a part of the Transportation Trust Fund and which shall be known as the Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund, consisting of transfers pursuant to § 58.1-816 of annual collections of the state recordation taxes attributable to the Cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park and the Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William; however, this dedication shall not affect the local recordation taxes under §§ 58.1-802 B and 58.1-814. The Fund shall also include any public rights-of-way use fees appropriated by the General Assembly; any state or local revenues, including but not limited to, any funds distributed pursuant to § 33.1-23.3, 33.1-23.4 or 33.1-23.5:1, which may be deposited into the Fund pursuant to a contract between a jurisdiction participating in the Northern Virginia Transportation District Program and the Commonwealth Transportation Board; and any other funds as may be appropriated by the General Assembly from time to time and designated for this Fund and all interest, dividends and appreciation which may accrue thereto. Any moneys remaining in the Fund at the end of a biennium shall not revert to the general fund, but shall remain in the Fund, subject to the determination by the Commonwealth Transportation Board that a Category 2, 3 or 4 project or projects may be funded.

B. Allocations from this Fund may be paid (i) to any authority, locality or commission for the purposes of paying the costs of the Northern Virginia Transportation District Program which consists of the following: the Fairfax County Parkway, Route 234 Bypass, Metrorail Capital Improvements attributable to Fairfax County including Metro parking expansions, Metro Capital Improvements, including the Franconia-Springfield Metrorail Station and new rail car purchases, Route 7 improvements in Loudoun County and Fairfax County, the Route 50/Courthouse Road interchange improvements in Arlington County, the Route 28/Route 625 interchange improvements in Loudoun County, Metrorail capital improvements attributable to the City of Alexandria including the King Street Metrorail Station access, Metrorail capital improvements attributable to Arlington County, including Ballston Station improvements, Route 15 safety improvements in Loudoun County, Route 28 parallel roads in Loudoun County, the Route 28/Sterling Boulevard interchange in Loudoun County, Route 1/Route 123 interchange improvements in Prince William County, Lee Highway improvements in the City of Fairfax, Route 123 improvements in Fairfax County, Telegraph Road improvements in Fairfax County, Route 123 Occoquan River Bridge, Gallows Road in Fairfax County, Route 1/Route 234 interchange improvements in Prince William County, Potomac-Rappahannock Transportation Commission bus replacement program, and Dulles Corridor Enhanced Transit program and (ii) for Category 4 projects as provided in § 2 of the act or acts authorizing the issuance of Bonds for the Northern Virginia Transportation District Program.

C. On or before July 15, 1994, $19 million shall be transferred to the Fund. Such transfer shall be made by the issuance of a treasury loan at no interest in the amount of $19 million in the event such an amount is not included for the Fund in the general appropriation act enacted by the 1994 Session of the General Assembly. Such treasury loan shall be repaid from the Commonwealth's portion of the state recordation tax imposed by Chapter 8 (§ 58.1-800 et seq.) of Title 58.1 designated for the Fund by this section and § 58.1-816.

D. If additional funds are distributed to the Northern Virginia Transportation District Fund as a result of the 2009 Session of the General Assembly increasing the funds distributed to localities pursuant to § 58.1-816, then such additional funds, through the year 2019, shall be distributed to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) to provide funds to the Authority as may be required under federal law for the payment of certain federal funds to WMATA and shall be used for capital improvements for WMATA's transit service (Metro). The Authority shall make such annual distribution from such revenues only to the extent required under federal law for the payment of federal funds to WMATA.

2.  That the provisions of this act shall expire on June 30, 2010, if the federal law specified in subsection D of § 58.1-815.1 of the Code of Virginia is not in effect on that date.