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VAHB1633Local beautification projects. Requires localities that intend to install plant materials in a public right-of-way in connection with a local beautification project to provide advance notice thereof to VDOT. The bill requires any locality that violat...
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2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0737)
VAHB1718Transportation planning and projects. Requires a locality to repay the Department of Transportation when a locality requests termination of a project and the Department does not agree to the termination or the locality or metropolitan planning organi...
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2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0741)
VAHB2048Consolidation of water quality programs. Moves several water quality programs currently administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Department of Environmental Quality. The Department of Environmental Quality and the State Wa...
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2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0756)
VASB1279Consolidation of water quality programs. Moves several water quality programs currently administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to the Department of Environmental Quality. The Department of Environmental Quality and the State Wa...
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2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0793)
VAHB2276Virginia Port Authority, Virginia Economic Development Partnership, and Commonwealth Transportation Board. Implements reforms of the Virginia Port Authority by adding the Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership to the...
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2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0762)
VAHB2313Revenues and appropriations primarily for transportation. Makes several changes to the revenues collected by the Commonwealth, and the distribution of such revenues, primarily for the benefit of transportation. The changes are as follows: The bill ...
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2013-04-03
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0766)
VASB820Billboards. Establishes conditions under which certain billboard signs may be relocated if land on which the billboard sign is located is acquired by eminent domain in connection with a highway project.
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2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0611)
VAHB2116Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Amends the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to create new efficiencies and streamline procedures b...
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2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0585)
VAHB2079Virginia Public Procurement Act; methods of procurement. Reorganizes the definitions of and processes for competitive sealed bidding and competitive negotiation. The bill also adds a definition of job order contracting and specifies procedures to be ...
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2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0583)
VASB1209Powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Amends the powers and duties of the Commissioner of Highways and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to create new efficiencies and streamline procedures b...
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2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0646)
VAHB1809Powers of the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB). Limits the ability of the CTB to reallocate funds from certain local highway projects that are inconsistent with the CTB's Statewide Transportation Plan or the Six-Year Improvement Program.
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2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0569)
VASB1140Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Implements performance-based funding for mass transit for revenues generated above $160 million in 2014 and after. Creates the Transit Service Delivery Advisory Committee to advise the Department of Rail and Public Tr...
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2013-03-20
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0639)
VASB888Advertising within highway rights-of-way. Provides that penalties and costs collected as the result of an agreement between the Commissioner of Highways and a locality to enforce the prohibition on advertising within highway rights-of-way may be paid...
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2013-03-16
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0457)
VASB1075Transportation planning and projects. Requires a locality to repay the Department of Transportation when a locality requests termination of a project and the Department does not agree to the termination or the locality or metropolitan planning organi...
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2013-03-14
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0388)
VAHB1885Quantitative rating of pavement condition and ride quality of highways. Requires VDOT to determine a quantitative rating on the pavement condition and ride quality of every highway in the primary and secondary state highway systems at least every fiv...
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2013-03-13
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0290)
VAHB1526HOT lanes. Provides that emergency vehicles and law-enforcement vehicles that otherwise would be allowed free use of HOT lanes cannot do so when the vehicle is being used to commute.
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2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0195)
VAHB1828Rail and public transportation. Allows the purchase of land for the construction of railway lines by the Department of Rail and Public Transportation for the purpose of alleviating traffic congestion on highways.
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2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0211)
VAHB2041Fund for access roads and bikeways to public recreational areas and historical sites. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to establish guidelines, instead of regulations, in connection with use of recreational access funds.
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2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0222)
VASB1166Littering and illegal dumping; community service. Provides that when a person is convicted of illegally dumping or disposing of garbage or refuse on public property or on private property without the permission of the owner, the court may order a ma...
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2013-03-12
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0156)
VAHB2044Recycled Materials in Highway Construction Advisory Committee. Eliminates the Recycled Materials in Highway Construction Advisory Committee.
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2013-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0121)
VAHB2040Noise abatement practices and technologies. Extends for two additional years (until June 30, 2015) VDOT's evaluation of noise abatement practices and technologies demonstration projects.
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2013-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0120)
VAHB2105Highway definitions. Makes technical amendments to conform Virginia's statutes with corresponding changes in federal nomenclature.
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2013-03-06
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0127)
VAHB2052HOT Lanes. Allows state and local law-enforcement vehicles, firefighting trucks, ambulances, and rescue squad vehicles to enter HOT lanes by crossing a barrier or buffer and not be guilty of reckless driving.
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2013-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0085)
VASB1204HOT Lanes. Allows state and local law-enforcement vehicles, firefighting trucks, ambulances, and rescue squad vehicles to enter HOT lanes by crossing a barrier or buffer and not be guilty of reckless driving.
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2013-03-05
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0101)
VASB865Tolling Interstate Highway System components. Requires General Assembly approval before tolls are imposed or collected on any component of the Interstate Highway System in existence prior to July 1, 2013, except for high-occupancy toll lanes and high...
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2013-02-18
VASB700Taxes on fuels; issuance of bonds. Makes the retail sale of gasoline, diesel fuel, and other fuels subject to the general 5% retail sales and use tax and reduces the fuels tax on such fuels by $0.05 per gallon from $0.175 per gallon to $0.125 per gal...
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2013-02-06
VASB717Establishing and adjusting sources of revenue for appropriations of the Commonwealth and its localities. Makes several changes to sources of revenue of the Commonwealth: Establishes a five percent tax on motor fuels sales based on the statewide avera...
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2013-02-06
VASB855Transportation; funding and administration. Increases the base fuel tax rate in Virginia by 10 cents to $0.275 per gallon of gasoline, gasohol, and diesel fuel, and then increases or decreases the rate each year using a fuel efficiency index. The bil...
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2013-02-06
VASB925Sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund. Increases the amount of sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the Transportation Trust Fund from an amount generated by a 0.5 percent tax rate under current law to an amount gener...
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2013-02-06
VAHB1328Commissioner of Highways; agreements with localities. Adds Prince William County to existing provisions that allow Fairfax County to enter into agreements with the Commissioner of Highways regarding enforcement of provisions related to signs and adve...
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2013-02-05
VAHB1367Littering; cigarettes, civil penalty. Includes cigarettes specifically in the category of things deemed litter for purposes of criminal punishment for improper disposal of trash. The bill also provides that in lieu of the imposition of the Class 1 mi...
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2013-02-05
VAHB1447Littering. Provides increased specificity as to what constitutes littering, and provides an alternative penalty for persons who litter in quantities no greater than 0.7 cubic feet.
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2013-02-05
VAHB1460Tolls; Interstate Highway System. Prohibits tolling on Interstate 95 without the approval of the General Assembly.
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2013-02-05
VAHB1908Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB); composition. Changes the composition of the CTB so that one member will be appointed from each of Virginia's congressional districts and three will be at-large appointees. The three ex officio members remain u...
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2013-02-05
VAHB2020Use of toll revenues. Prohibits use of toll revenues for any purpose other than the construction, reconstruction, replacement, maintenance replacement, improvement, or maintenance of the facility for the use of which the tolls were imposed and collec...
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2013-02-05
VAHB2049Composition of Commonwealth Transportation Board. Increases the total membership of the Commonwealth Transportation Board from 17 to 20 members by doubling the representation for the Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Northern Virginia highway construction...
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2013-02-05
VOTE: RECONSIDER (46-Y 51-N)
VAHB2070Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Removes all current allocations made by the Commonwealth Transportation Board to mass transit and implements performance-based funding for mass transit.
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2013-02-05
VAHB1779Tolling transponder fees. Prohibits imposition of a monthly fee for any tolling transponder for any month in which the transponder is used at least 10 times.
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2013-02-05
VAHB1979Authorization of bonds to acquire the Dulles Greenway. Authorizes the Commonwealth Transportation Board to issue bonds to (i) acquire the Dulles Greenway and (ii) if determined necessary by the Board, improve or upgrade the Dulles Greenway. If the Bo...
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2013-02-05
VAHB1980Dulles Greenway Authority created. Creates the Dulles Greenway Authority to, among other things, operate and maintain the Dulles Greenway. The Authority would be governed by a board of directors composed of 15 voting members as follows: one current m...
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2013-02-05
VAHB2129Toll roads. Requires General Assembly approval for tolling of any interstate, state primary, or state secondary highway system component.
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2013-02-05
VAHB2141Street maintenance payments. Provides for increased highway maintenance payments by the Commissioner of Highways to municipalities where traffic volumes exceed the statewide average by more than 20 percent.
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2013-02-05
VAHB2165Signs or advertising within limits of highways. Imposes a civil penalty of $100 for first violations and $250 for second or subsequent violations for placing advertising within highway rights-of-way.
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2013-02-05
VAHB2172Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District. Creates the Prince William County Metrorail Improvement District to provide a means of financing an extension of commuter rail service from Fairfax County into Prince William County.
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2013-02-05
VAHB2196Tolls on Interstate Highway System components. Requires approval by the General Assembly prior to tolling any Interstate Highway System component in operation prior to July 1, 2013, except for HOV lanes and HOT lanes and continued tolling on toll fac...
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2013-02-05
VAHB2335Transportation Revenue Fund. Establishes the Transportation Revenue Fund and dedicates revenues attributable to economic growth from Virginia's cargo marine terminals to the Fund. The bill also provides that if the operations at one or more ports of ...
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2013-02-05
VASB1369Virginia Riverboat Gaming Commission; regulation of riverboat gaming; penalties. Creates the Virginia Riverboat Gaming Commission as the licensing body for riverboat gaming. The bill sets up the regulatory system for riverboat gaming and provides pen...
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2013-02-04
Passed by indefinitely in General Laws and Technology with letter (14-Y 0-N)
VASB824Additional state sales and use tax in the Hampton Roads Planning District; referendum. Provides for an additional one percent sales and use tax in the counties and cities located in the Hampton Roads Planning District, with the additional revenues ge...
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2013-01-31
Failed to report (defeated) in Finance (5-Y 7-N)
VAHB1884Allocation of highway maintenance funds. Provides that highway maintenance funds shall be allocated on the basis of vehicle miles traveled in each highway construction district compared to vehicle miles traveled in the Commonwealth as a whole. Howeve...
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2013-01-31
Tabled in Transportation by voice vote
VASB732Composition of the Commonwealth Transportation Board. Increases the number of members of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to 18, by the addition of one citizen member, and changes the areas of representation from the construction districts to th...
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2013-01-30
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (15-Y 0-N)
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