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2015 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Transportation

Chairman: Stephen D. Newman

Clerk: Maribeth Turner
Staff: Nicole Brenner, Alan Wambold
Date of Meeting: February 4, 2015
Time and Place: Wednesday, 45 min. after adjournment, Senate Room A

H.B. 1662 Transportation network companies (TNCs); licensing process by DMV.

Patron: Rust

Transportation network companies. Establishes a process for the licensing of transportation network companies (TNCs) by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), provided that TNCs comply with the requirements for licensure. The bill requires TNCs to screen drivers (TNC partners), ensure that all drivers are at least 21 years old and properly licensed to drive, and conduct background checks on all drivers including criminal background, driving history, and status on the sex offender registry.

The bill also requires that TNC partner vehicles be titled and registered personal vehicles; be insured; have a maximum seating capacity of no more than seven persons, excluding the driver; be registered with DMV for TNC use; and display TNC and DMV identification markers. The bill further requires that TNC drivers be covered by a specific liability insurance policy. The bill also imposes several other operational requirements, including requirements that the TNC provide a credential to the driver and disclose information about the TNC partner and TNC policies to passengers, and specifies the nature and limits of the insurance coverage.

The bill authorizes DMV to conduct periodic reviews of the TNC to confirm compliance and authorizes fees to cover DMV's costs of administering the program, including an annual fee of $50 per TNC partner vehicle, an initial TNC license fee of $70,000, and an annual license renewal fee of $3,000. The bill requires DMV to review the fee structure and report by December 1, 2016.

  A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 46.2-694, as it is currently effective and as it may become effective, 46.2-711, 46.2-749.5, 46.2-753, 46.2-755, 46.2-1400, 46.2-2000, 46.2-2001.3, 46.2-2011.5, 46.2-2011.6, 46.2-2011.20, 46.2-2011.22, 46.2-2011.24, 46.2-2011.29, and 46.2-2051 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding in Chapter 20 of Title 46.2 an article numbered 15, consisting of sections numbered 46.2-2099.45 through 46.2-2099.53, relating to transportation network companies.

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S.B. 1314 Northern Virginia TransportationAuthority; regional plan.

Patron: Marsden

Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; regional transportation plan. Requires NVTA's regional transportation plan to make reducing congestion its primary objective, to give priority to projects that reduce congestion, and to document how such projects will reduce congestion. The bill also requires localities within NVTA to tell NVTA what items in their own local comprehensive plan are not consistent with NVTA's regional transportation plan. 

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 33.2-2500 and 33.2-2508 of the Code of Virginia, relating to the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; regional plan.

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S.B. 1451 Tolls; collection of user fees on Interstate 195 and Interstate 85 south of City of Petersburg.

Patron: Lucas

Tolls on rural Interstates Highways.

A BILL to amend and reenact 32.2-309, 33.2-1807 of the Code of Virginia, relating to tolls on rural Interstates Highways.

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