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2014 SESSION
14103061DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 33.1-23.1 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 33.1-23.1. Allocation of funds among highway systems.
A. The Commonwealth Transportation Board shall allocate each year from all funds made available for highway purposes such amount as it deems reasonable and necessary for the maintenance of roads within the interstate system of highways, the primary system of state highways, the secondary system of state highways and for city and town street maintenance payments made pursuant to § 33.1-41.1 and payments made to counties which have withdrawn or elect to withdraw from the secondary system of state highways pursuant to § 33.1-23.5:1.
B. After funds are set aside for administrative and general
expenses and pursuant to other provisions in this title that provide for the
disposition of funds prior to allocation for highway purposes, and after
allocation is made pursuant to subsection A, the Commonwealth Transportation
Board shall may
allocate an amount determined by the Board, not
to exceed $500 million in any given year, as follows: 25 percent to bridge
reconstruction and rehabilitation; 25 percent to advancing high priority
projects statewide; 25 percent to reconstructing deteriorated interstate and
primary system pavements determined to have a Combined Condition Index of less
than 60; 15 percent to projects undertaken pursuant to the Public-Private
Transportation Act of 1995 (§ 56-556 et seq.); five percent to paving unpaved
roads carrying more than 200 vehicles per day; and five percent to smart
roadway technology, provided that, at the discretion of the Commonwealth
Transportation Board, such percentages of funds may be adjusted in any given
year to meet project cash flow needs or when funds cannot be expended due to
legal, environmental, or other project management considerations and provided
that such allocations shall cease beginning July 1, 2020. After such
allocations are made, the Board may allocate each year up
to 10 percent of the funds remaining for highway purposes for the undertaking
and financing of rail projects that, in the Board's determination, will result
in mitigation of highway congestion. After the foregoing allocations have been
made, the Board shall allocate the remaining funds available for highway purposes,
exclusive of federal funds for the interstate system, among the several highway
systems for construction first pursuant to §§ 33.1-23.1:1 and 33.1-23.1:2 and
then as follows:
1. Forty percent of the remaining funds exclusive of federal-aid matching funds for the interstate system shall be allocated to the primary system of state highways, including the arterial network, and in addition, an amount shall be allocated to the primary system as interstate matching funds as provided in subsection B of § 33.1-23.2.
2. Thirty percent of the remaining funds exclusive of federal-aid matching funds for the interstate system shall be allocated to urban highways for state aid pursuant to § 33.1-44.
3. Thirty percent of the remaining funds exclusive of federal-aid matching funds for the interstate system shall be allocated to the secondary system of state highways.
C. In addition, the Commonwealth Transportation Board, from funds appropriated for such purpose in the general appropriation act, shall allocate additional funds to the Cities of Newport News, Norfolk, and Portsmouth and the County of Warren in such manner and apportion such funds among such localities as the Board may determine, unless otherwise provided in the general appropriation act. The localities shall use such funds to address highway maintenance and repair needs created by or associated with port operations in those localities.
D. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the General Assembly may, through the general appropriations act, permit the Governor to increase the amounts to be allocated to highway maintenance, highway construction, either or both.
E. As used in this section:
"Bridge reconstruction
and rehabilitation" means reconstruction and rehabilitation of those
bridges identified by the Department of Transportation as being functionally
obsolete or structurally deficient.
"High priority
projects" means those projects of regional or statewide significance
identified by the Board that reduce congestion, increase safety, create jobs,
or increase economic development.
"Smart roadway
technology" means those projects or programs identified by the Board that
reduce congestion, improve mobility, improve safety, provide up-to-date travel
data, or improve emergency response.