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2012 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Transportation

Chairman: Stephen D. Newman

Clerk: Nick Galvin, Bonnie Shelhorse
Staff: Alan Wambold, Nicole Brenner
Date of Meeting: February 8, 2012
Time and Place: 1/2 hr after Adjournment, Senate Room A

H.B. 34 Advertising; Commissioner of Highways may enter into agreements with local governing body regarding.

Patron: Albo

Advertising within highway limits.  Allows the Commissioner of Highways to enter into agreements with any local governing body authorizing local law-enforcement agencies or other local governmental entities to act as agents of the Commissioner regarding unlawful advertising on highways and collection of penalties and costs.

H.B. 97 Motorcycles; driving two abreast in a single lane.

Patron: Wilt

Driving two abreast in a single lane.  Allows motorcycles to drive two abreast in a single lane.

H.B. 119 Golf carts; allows governing body of Town of Urbanna to authorize operation on highways.

Patron: Hodges

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

H.B. 171 Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund; bonding requirements.

Patron: Cosgrove

Motor Vehicle Transaction Recovery Fund; bonding requirements.  Permits the Fund to drop below the previously mandated $250,000 balance requirement but not to register a negative balance. The bill also allows recovery against a dealer to include attorney fees.

H.B. 187 Police check-points; prohibits establishment of motorcycle only check-points.

Patron: Gilbert

Police check-points.  Prohibits the establishment of "motorcycle only" police check-points.

H.B. 194 Driver's licenses, commercial; requires DMV to consider applicants' military experience.

Patron: Lewis

Commercial driver's licenses.  Requires DMV to consider, to the extent not inconsistent with federal law, applicants' military training and experience in assessing their eligibility to receive a Virginia commercial driver's license.

H.B. 235 Motor vehicles, T&M dealers, etc.; limits number of supplemental sales licenses that can be issued.

Patron: Cosgrove

Supplemental sales locations of motor vehicles.  Limits the number of supplemental sales licenses that the Motor Vehicle Dealer Board can issue within a seven-day period to one per location and to eight within a year.

H.B. 262 Transportation Board; adds urban and rural at-large members.

Patron: Peace

Membership of Commonwealth Transportation Board.  Changes the reference to "standard metropolitan statistical areas" to "metropolitan planning areas with populations greater than 200,000."

H.B. 289 Handicapped parking; allows localities by ordinance to grant free parking.

Patron: Sherwood

Handicapped parking.  Allows localities by ordinance to grant four hours free parking to vehicles exhibiting disabled parking indicia in some places while not granting such free parking in other places.

H.B. 333 Economic development sites; fund for access roads.

Patron: Villanueva

Access roads to economic development sites.  Clarifies the Code to account for a fund name change from 2006.

H.B. 353 Motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing; amends several licensing laws.

Patron: Cox, J.A.

Motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing.  Amends several motor carrier and commercial driver's licensing laws. The bill also authorizes the DMV commissioner to designate members of his staff as motor carrier size and weight compliance agents to issue citations for civil violations of size and weight and other related statutes. The bill also provides authority to the agents to issue citations for IFTA violations and place holds on vehicles, which can be levied to recover outstanding debts against the Commonwealth.

H.B. 498 Funeral processions; sheriff and police escorts.

Patron: Dance

Funeral processions; sheriff and police escorts. Provides that either the sheriff or the police department in a locality may provide traffic control for funeral processions. Currently, sheriffs may only provide traffic control in localities that do not have a separate police department.

H.B. 545 VDOT; allowed to drive on portion of highway other than a roadway to/from scene of traffic accident.

Patron: Comstock

Virginia Department of Transportation; incident management. Allows VDOT to drive on a portion of the highway other than a roadway at, en route to, or from the scene of a traffic accident, without direction from law-enforcement officers.

H.B. 553 Airports, privately owned; duty of care of landowners.

Patron: Knight

Privately owned airports; duty of care of landowners.  Adjusts the liability of owners of private, unlicensed airports that are not open to the public to be more like that of owners of private property used for hunting, fishing, trapping, and bicycle riding.

H.B. 554 Political subdivisions; Department of Aviation lease approval requirement.

Patron: Knight

Department of Aviation lease approval requirement.  Replaces ”city, town, or county” with “political subdivision” thereby expanding the scope of entities that must abide by the DOAV’s lease approval requirements. The bill also allows privately owned airports to enter into aviation-related land leases.

H.B. 647 Driver’s licenses; minors to be accompanied by parent, guardian, etc., to ceremony.

Patron: Habeeb

Issuance of driver’s licenses to minors.  Requires that a licensee who is under the age of 18 at the time that the ceremony is held to issue an original driver’s license be accompanied by a parent, guardian, spouse, or other person in loco parentis. Under current law, a licensee must be accompanied at the ceremony if he is under the age of 18 at the time the application for licensure is made. This bill is a recommendation of the Committee on District Courts.

H.B. 649 Vehicle odometers; increases penalty for tampering.

Patron: Habeeb

Odometer tampering.  Increases the penalty for odometer tampering.

H.B. 774 License plates, special; repeals issuance to supporters celebrating centennial of Fort Belvoir.

Patron: Landes

Special license plates; centennial of Fort Belvoir.  Repeals the 2011 Act of Assembly that authorized the issuance of special license plates celebrating the centennial of Fort Belvoir.

H.B. 865 Taxicabs; local regulation.

Patron: Rust

Local regulation of taxicabs. Disallows counties, cities, and towns from reducing the number of taxicabs that are permitted or authorized under the local ordinance, unless there is non-use or cause.

H.B. 870 Repairable vehicles; definition, exemption.

Patron: Rust

Salvage vehicles.  Exempts repairable vehicles, defined as late model vehicles repaired by an insurance company immediately prior to acquisition by the insurance company, from the provisions of Chapter 16 of Title 46.2.

H.B. 1164 Secondary and urban system highways; STO to conduct periodic examination of process.

Patron: Bulova

Improvements to secondary and urban system highways.  Requires the Secretary of Transportation, at least once every four years, to examine the process by which secondary and urban highway system maintenance and improvement projects are approved.