Virginia Subject | Highways and Other Surface Transportation Systems

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
VAHB201PassCertain transportation entities; membership. Requires, rather than permits, the four members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission, the two members of the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commission, and the two members of the Nor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633)
VASB158PassNorthern Virginia Transportation Authority; technical advisory committee; appointments. Provides that six members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority's technical advisory committee are appointed by the Authority rather than appointed by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-08
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0618)
VAHB234PassAll-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0436)
VAHB1254PassBridges; state of good repair; allocation of funds. Designates bridges with a general condition rating, defined in the bill, of no more than five for at least one major bridge component as eligible for state of good repair funds. Currently, bridges m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0415)
VASB516PassAll-terrain vehicles and off-road motorcycles; seizure, impounding, and disposition. Authorizes the governing body of any city to provide by ordinance for the lawful seizure, impounding, and disposition of an illegally operated all-terrain vehicle or...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-04
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0510)
VAHB143PassUtility work database. Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and maintain a publicly accessible database and map of all utility work that has been approved by the Department and will occur within a highway right-of-way in a residenti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-02
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271)
VAHB1488PassLocal government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0225)
VASB413PassLocal government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0242)
VAHB1526PassMotor vehicles; overweight permits for certain trucks operated by electric utilities. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to issue overweight permits for an electric utility's operation of vehicles used for the construction, operation, or maint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-28
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0227)
VAHB74PassUnpaved secondary highway funds. Clarifies that the improvement of nonsurface treated secondary highways includes improvements other than paving, as described in the bill. The bill also clarifies that the local governing body of the county receiving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0134)
VAHB282PassMoving violations; highway work zones. Creates a traffic infraction for any moving violation in a highway work zone punishable by a fine of not less than $300 for the first offense and not less than $500 for any subsequent offense. The bill provides ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138)
VASB644PassUnpaved secondary highway funds. Clarifies that the improvement of nonsurface treated secondary highways includes improvements other than paving, as described in the bill. The bill also clarifies that the local governing body of the county receiving ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-03-26
Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0160)
VASB226Engross
50%
Department of Motor Vehicles; highway use fee; tiered flat rate system; work group; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to convene a work group to determine the feasibility of implementing a tiered flat rate system to accurately determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-28
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB775Engross
50%
License plate reader systems; civil penalty. Provides requirements for the use of license plate reader systems, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill limits the use of such systems to scanning, detecting, and recording data about...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-28
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
VASB539Intro
25%
License plate readers; penalties. Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owners or other r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-14
To Senate Courts of Justice Committee
VAHJR5Intro
25%
Study; Department of Transportation; bridge from Surry County to James City County; report. Requests the Department of Transportation to study the need and options for constructing a bridge from Hog Island in Surry County to James City County and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB135Intro
25%
High-occupancy toll lanes; disabled veteran license plates. Provides that, on Interstate 95, vehicles displaying a disabled veteran license plate meet the high-occupancy requirement for high-occupancy toll lanes, regardless of the number of occupants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB424Intro
25%
Free use of toll facilities; certain disabled veterans. Authorizes the free use of all toll bridges, toll roads, and other toll facilities in the Commonwealth for drivers who have been rated by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as having a 100 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB532Intro
25%
Transportation projects; highway safety. Prohibits the initiation of any transportation project in an established school crossing zone unless a pedestrian safety-focused road safety audit is conducted and its recommendations are incorporated into the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB557Intro
25%
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; preservation of public parklands, recreation areas, and wildlife or waterfowl refuges. Requires the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority to prioritize the preservation of the natural beauty and the na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB811Intro
25%
Toll relief; maximum charges. Limits to $200 per month the tolls charged to residents of the Commonwealth via electronic toll collection devices for the use of toll bridges, toll ferries, toll tunnels, or toll roads in the Commonwealth. The bill proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1111Intro
25%
Department of Motor Vehicles; highway use fee; tiered flat rate system; work group; report. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to convene a work group to determine the feasibility of implementing a tiered flat rate system to accurately determin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1201Intro
25%
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; budget; operating assistance. Provides that payments and obligations arising from or related to any contract pertaining to employee compensation and work conditions under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1352Intro
25%
Use of salt and brine; certain highways. Prohibits the Department of Transportation from using salt or brine for stabilization or control of ice or snow on any highway that is part of the primary or secondary state highway system and located in the w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1391Intro
25%
Commissioner of Highways; Highway Corporation Act to Public-Private Transportation Act. Directs the Commissioner of Highways to evaluate ways to reduce tolls and implement distance-based tolling by transferring any roadway within the Commonwealth ope...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Appropriations Committee
VAHB1510Intro
25%
Toll-relief programs; low-income residents. Requires the Department of Transportation to establish and administer toll-relief programs for low-income residents of any locality impacted by the presence of a toll facility in proximity to such locality,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1543Intro
25%
Department of Transportation; quick-build traffic calming projects; report. Requires the Department of Transportation to convene a work group with relevant stakeholders to develop a process for localities in Planning District 8 to plan, prioritize, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-13
To House Transportation Committee
VASB712Engross
50%
Release of hunting dogs; state highway or right-of-way. Creates a Class 3 misdemeanor for the intentional release of hunting dogs on a Department of Transportation right-of-way or on a highway owned or maintained by the Department of Transportation t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-12
Chair votes No
VAHB443Intro
25%
Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain meetings, hearings, or intended actions. Standardizes the frequency with which and length of time in which notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
Stricken from docket by Counties, Cities and Towns (21-Y 0-N)
VAHB920Intro
25%
License plate readers; penalties. Provides requirements for the use of license plate readers, defined in the bill, by law-enforcement agencies. The bill requires such agencies to enter into an agreement with the license plate reader owner or other re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-09
Committee substitute posted to LIS only 24107451D-H1
VASB282Intro
25%
Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program; surplus funds. Provides that beginning in fiscal year 2025, in any fiscal year in which there is a surplus of general fund revenues, as that term is defined in the bill, the Governor shall include in his p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-08
Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (15-Y 0-N)
VAHB1524Intro
25%
Tax credit for purchase of mobile machinery and equipment used by road contractors for processing recyclable asphalt materials on pavements and roadways. Creates a nonrefundable tax credit for taxable years 2025 through 2029 in an amount equal to 20 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee
VAHB521Intro
25%
Photo speed monitoring devices; locality-designated highway segments; civil penalty. Authorizes any locality to authorize, by ordinance, its local law-enforcement agency to place and operate photo speed monitoring devices in certain locations named i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-06
Incorporated by Transportation
VAHB533Intro
25%
Photo speed monitoring devices; location. Authorizes the governing body of any county, city, or town to provide by ordinance for the placement and operation of photo speed monitoring devices on any highway in such locality with a speed limit of 45 mi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-06
Incorporated by Transportation
VAHB1037Intro
25%
Installation, maintenance, and operation of devices in highway right-of-way for law-enforcement purposes; regulation authority; civil penalty. Authorizes the Department of State Police or the chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-05
Incorporated by Communications, Technology and Innovation
VASB206Intro
25%
Installation, maintenance, and operation of devices in highway right-of-way for law-enforcement purposes; regulation authority; civil penalty. Authorizes the Department of State Police or the chief law-enforcement officer of a locality to install dev...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
Incorporated by Transportation
VAHB915Intro
25%
Highway Corporation Act of 1988; reports. Requires a roadway operator under the Highway Corporation Act of 1988 to quarterly file with the State Corporation Commission, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Chairmen of the House and Senate Committ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB923Intro
25%
Department of Transportation; Dulles Toll Road and Dulles Greenway; report. Directs the Department of Transportation to review the tolls, fines, and penalties assessed on the Dulles Toll Road and the Dulles Greenway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VAHB1173Intro
25%
Northern Virginia Transportation Commission; membership. Requires, rather than permits, the four members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to be members of the House of Delegates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
Incorporated by Transportation
VAHB1175Intro
25%
Northern Virginia Transportation Authority; membership. Requires, rather than permits, the two members of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to be members of the House of Delegates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
Incorporated by Transportation
VAHB1233Intro
25%
Unpaved secondary highway funds; improvements; report. Provides that improvements to nonsurface treated secondary highways may, at the discretion of the locality, include changes other than paving, including enhanced maintenance and capital improveme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VASB617Intro
25%
Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund; Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; budget; operating assistance. Provides that payments and obligations arising from or related to any contract pertaining to employee compensation and work conditions under...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To Senate Transportation Committee
VAHJR65Intro
25%
Study; JLARC; rate of accidents that cause fatalities on roads maintained and managed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and localities; report. Directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to study the rate of accidents that c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-02-01
To House Rules Committee
VASB322Intro
25%
Statewide prioritization process; primary evacuation routes. Adds maintenance of primary evacuation routes to the list of factors that must be considered by the Commonwealth Transportation Board as part of the statewide prioritization process for pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-01-25
To Senate Transportation Committee
Syndicate content
feedback