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2022 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Transportation

Chair: David W. Marsden

Clerk: Eric Bingham, Gillian Conway
Staff: Emma Buck, Lisa Wallmeyer
Date of Meeting: February 10, 2022
Time and Place: 15 mins after adjourn / SR 3/ Public register speak GA website
https://virginia-senate.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3

S.B. 180

Patron: Saslaw

Exhaust systems; excessive noise. Prohibits any individual from operating a motor vehicle with a gross weight of 6,500 pounds or less with an exhaust system that emits noise in excess of 85 decibels. The bill also allows the governing body of any county, city, or town located within the Northern Virginia Planning District to provide by ordinance that no person shall operate any motor vehicle on a highway or on public or private property within 500 feet of any residential district unless such motor vehicle is equipped with an exhaust system of a type installed as standard equipment, or comparable to that designed for use on that particular vehicle or device as standard factory equipment, in good working order and in constant operation to prevent excessive noise.

A BILL to amend and reenact §§ 46.2-1047, 46.2-1049, 46.2-1051, and 46.2-1300 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-1049.1, relating to exhaust systems; excessive noise.

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S.B. 368

Patron: Reeves

Vehicle history report companies; notifications. Requires vehicle history report companies, as defined in the bill, to notify a vehicle owner and lienholder, if any, if his vehicle has been deemed nonrepairable or any comparable term in the records of such company. The bill requires vehicle history report companies to establish and maintain a process for disputing such a designation and, if appropriate, having it corrected in a timely manner. The bill provides that a failure to notify the owner constitutes a violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. The bill authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to release the name and address of the vehicle owner and lienholder for the purpose of such notification.

A BILL to amend and reenact § 46.2-208 of the Code of Virginia and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-1602.3, relating to vehicle history report companies; notifications.

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S.B. 706

Patron: Marsden

Trucks; operation in certain weather conditions. Requires the operators of trucks to stay in the right-most lane of any highway with two or more lanes in each direction and to not use cruise control or compression release engine brakes when driving in active snow, sleet, or freezing rain, or other inclement cold precipitation.

A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 46.2-803.2, relating to trucks; operation in certain weather conditions.

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