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2004 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Transportation

Chairman: Martin E. Williams

Clerk: Bonnie W. Shelhorse
Date of Meeting: February 26, 2004
Time and Place: 2:00 pm/Senate Room B/GAB

H.B. 35

Patron: Sherwood

Speed limits. Provides that the maximum speed limit on dirt roads in Frederick, Clarke, Washington, and Fauquier will be 35 miles per hour unless increased or decreased by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner.

H.B. 151

Patron: Albo

HOT lanes. Provides for the designation of high-occupancy toll (HOT) lanes with electronically collected and photo-enforced tolls.

H.B. 250

Patron: McQuigg

Reckless driving; penalties. Provides that if a person, while driving on a suspended or revoked operator's license, drives recklessly and causes the death or serious bodily injury of another, he is guilty of a Class 6 felony.

H.B. 346

Patron: Cosgrove

Abandoned vehicles. Provides that when a manufactured home or a mobile home is found abandoned on somebody else's property, the owner or person having a security interest in the abandoned manufactured home or mobile home has 120 days (instead of 30 days) to reclaim the vehicle before the owner of the property on which the manufactured home or mobile home was found abandoned can apply to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get his own title to the abandoned manufactured home or mobile home.

H.B. 429

Patron: Reid

Utility trailers; study. Requires that reflectors or reflectorized material be affixed to the rear of certain utility trailers. The bill also requires the Transportation Research Council to study whether the provisions of the bill have reduced the frequency with which these utility trailers are struck from behind by other vehicles.

H.B. 485

Patron: Cole

Allocation of funds for secondary system highway construction. Provides that not more than one-third of the annual secondary system highway funds apportioned to a county under this section may be used to reimburse the county for (i) debt service for bonds or (ii) eligible project costs incurred on approved projects included in the county's Secondary Six-Year Plan and the county's capital improvement program. Such funds may also be used by the county for debt service for bonds issued for, or eligible project costs incurred or to be incurred on, approved projects included, at the time such bonds are issued or such costs are incurred or are to be incurred, in the Six-Year Improvement Program of the Commonwealth Transportation Board and the county's capital improvement program.

H.B. 502

Patron: Callahan

Transportation improvement districts. Facilitates the establishment of local transportation improvement districts in Fairfax County.

H.B. 608

Patron: Gear

Antique trailers. Provides for the registration of antique trailers in the same manner presently provided for the registration of antique motor vehicles. The bill also explicitly authorizes towing of trailers by antique motor vehicles.

H.B. 644

Patron: Abbitt

Railway Preservation and Development Fund. Codifies language hitherto existing only in general appropriation acts, relating to the Railway Preservation and Development Fund.

H.B. 677

Patron: Rapp

Parking on secondary system highways. Allows the governing bodies of Fairfax, James City, Loudoun, Montgomery, Prince George, Prince William, and York Counties by ordinance to restrict or prohibit parking on secondary highway within their boundaries. Current law requires approval of these actions by the Commonwealth Transportation Board.

H.B. 774

Patron: McDougle

Driving while license, permit, or privilege to drive suspended or revoked. Provides that mandatory minimum punishment for a third or subsequent offense of driving on a suspended license applies only if such offense occurs within 10 years of the first offense. The bill also unclutters existent language in an attempt to clarify, without changing the intent of the law.

H.B. 777

Patron: McDougle

Traffic lights. Provides that drivers of vehicles approaching an intersection controlled by traffic lights that are dark because of power failures or similar causes shall proceed as though the intersection were controlled by all-way stop signs.

H.B. 993

Patron: Hugo

Penalties for racing. Provides that causing injury to another while racing is a Class 6 felony. The bill also requires surrender of a racer's driver's license upon conviction for one to three years.

H.B. 997

Patron: Hugo

Fairfax Station Road. Designates the entire length of Fairfax Station Road in Fairfax County a Virginia byway.

H.B. 998

Patron: Hugo

Pleasant Valley Road. Designates a portion of Pleasant Valley Road in Fairfax County a Virginia byway.

H.B. 1005

Patron: Callahan

Credit assistance revenue bonds. Authorizes the issuance of Commonwealth of Virginia transportation credit assistance revenue bonds for the purpose of funding a portion of the Dulles Corridor mass transit project.

H.B. 1136

Patron: McDonnell

Administrative license revocation. Provides that when a person is arrested or summonsed for a DUI offense, the period of administrative license revocation shall be the earlier of trial or seven days for a first alleged offense, 30 days for a second alleged offense and 60 days for a third alleged offense. The person may petition the court for a restricted license based on substantial hardship. The suspension period is currently seven days in all cases.

H.B. 1194

Patron: Scott, J.M.

Virginia Department of Transportation; right-of-way easements; damages to adjacent property. Provides that performance surety held by the Department of Transportation in association with a land use permit issued to a company to perform work within the Department's right-of-way shall be released until such time as all claims against the company associated with the work have been resolved, provided a claimant has notified the Department of a claim against such company within 30 days after completion of the work. A claimant shall have no more than one year after the notification is received by the Department to complete any action against the company associated with the work for which the claim has been made. After the expiration of the one-year period, the Department may release the performance surety.

H.B. 1263

Patron: Ingram

Landfill gas pipelines; notice by VDOT to counties. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), whenever it grants permission for the location of a landfill gas pipeline within highway right-of-way, to notify every county through which the pipeline will pass.

H.B. 1312

Patron: May

Specialized mobile equipment. Allows transportation on specialized mobile equipment of specialized safety equipment, including but not limited to highway traffic safety cones, to be used on a job site.

H.B. 1419

Patron: Marshall, D.W.

Local transportation district for Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Provides for the creation of a local transportation district within Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Such district could be used to facilitate the construction of a U.S. Route 29 bypass.

H.B. 1423

Patron: Stump

Dealer's manual transaction fee. Increases from 10 per month to 20 per month the number of manual transactions that may be conducted by a dealer with the Department of Motor Vehicles without incurring an additional fee. The bill is effective on its passage, but expires on January 1, 2006.

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H.B. 1444

Patron: Barlow

Humelsine Parkway. Designates Virginia Route 199 between I-64 west of Williamsburg and I-64 east of Williamsburg the Humelsine Parkway.

H.B. 1474

Patron: Hull

Designates a certain bridge "The Stuart Finley Bridge".