Bills Pending Virginia House Transportation Committee

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VASB1165Engross

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Commonwealth Transportation Board; regulation authority. Provides that the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make regulations for the use of systems of state highways includes the use of devices in the right-of-way of such highway...
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2023-02-22
To House Transportation Committee
VASB1293Engross

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Bicycles; exemptions to certain traffic control devices; local ordinances. Authorizes the local governing body of any county, city, or town to by ordinance authorize a bicyclist to treat a stop light as a stop sign and a stop sign as a yield right-of...
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2023-02-22
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1535Intro

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Commercial motor vehicles; driving in left-most lane. Limits the locations where a person may drive a commercial motor vehicle in the left-most lane from those interstate highways having more than two lanes in each direction with a posted speed limit...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1894Intro

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High-occupancy vehicle lanes; pregnant women. Provides that a pregnant woman shall be considered two people for the purposes of determining occupancy in HOV and HOT lanes, provided that she has proof of pregnancy or, if traveling in a lane monitored ...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1559Intro

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Local ordinances; vehicle exhaust; operation on property near residential district. Allows local governing bodies to regulate, by ordinance, noise from vehicles not conforming to exhaust system requirements that are operated on highways or on public ...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1453Intro

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Permanent farm use placards. Repeals the requirement for the owner or lessee of a vehicle claiming a farm use exemption from the registration, licensing, and decal requirements for a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to obtain a nontransferable ...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1714Intro

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Stolen or embezzled vehicle; notification of toll operator. Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, if a vehicle registration has been suspended due to being reported stolen or embezzled, to include notice of such suspension using the words "stole...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1785Intro

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Speed limit in residence districts; local authority; penalty. Authorizes the governing body of any city to reduce the default speed limit on any highway maintained by the city that is located in a residence district to less than 25 miles per hour unl...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1609Intro

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Transit Ridership Incentive Program; on-demand microtransit operations. Includes the development and implementation of on-demand microtransit operations, defined in the bill, to incentivize and promote transit ridership, as part of the goal of the Tr...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1589Intro

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Pedestrian control signals; applicability to persons riding bicycles and other devices. Allows persons riding bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility devices, electric power-assisted bicycles, mopeds, or motorized skateboards or scooters to fo...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1531Intro

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Hampton Roads Interstate Highway Corridor Improvement Program and Fund; sales and use tax; Planning District 23. Creates the Hampton Roads Interstate Highway Corridor Improvement Program for the purpose of making infrastructure and safety improvement...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1939Intro

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Powers of local authorities; reducing speed limits; highways in the primary and secondary state highway systems. Authorizes the governing body of any locality to reduce to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, the speed li...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1868Intro

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Special license plates; military service; unremarried surviving spouses. Authorizes unremarried surviving spouses of persons eligible to receive a special license plate for military service to also receive such special license plates. The law current...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2062Intro

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Towing enforcement. Provides that violations of current law regarding tow truck drivers and towing and recovery operators are subject to the Virginia Consumer Protection Act. The bill repeals the $150 civil penalty for certain towing violations in Pl...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1747Intro

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Driver's licenses; persons having defective vision; minimum standards of visual acuity and field of vision. Allows a driver's license without daylight restrictions to be issued to any person with visual acuity between 20/40 and 20/70 in one or both e...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2404Intro

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Driver training instructors; active law-enforcement officers. Authorizes the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to, in lieu of the requirements established by the Department of Education for driver education instructor qualification, ac...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1537Intro

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Warning devices on school buses; use before proposed stop. Increases the distance before a proposed stop that a school bus must use its warning devices from 100 feet to 200 feet if the lawful speed limit is less than 35 miles per hour and from 200 fe...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2102Intro

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Vehicle exhaust systems; equipment. Prohibits (i) the sale or offering for sale of any mechanical or electronic device that creates or amplifies noise emitted by a motor vehicle, moped, or motorized skateboard or scooter that is louder than the noise...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2300Intro

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Use of handheld personal communications device; commercial dispatch. Exempts from the prohibition on holding a handheld personal communications device while driving a motor vehicle the use of such a device for commercial dispatch purposes, as defined...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2468Intro

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Dealership operation by manufacturer; determination of no independent dealer to operate the franchise. Authorizes a previous determination by the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles that there was no independent dealer available in the c...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2163Intro

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Special license plates; UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS. Authorizes the issuance of special license plates for supporters of the University of Texas bearing the legend UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2127Intro

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Passing certain stopped vehicles; motorcycles. Authorizes the operator of a two-wheeled motorcycle to pass another vehicle that is stopped in the same lane or between lanes, provided that the operator is on a divided highway with at least two lanes o...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1557Intro

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Modified utility vehicles. Authorizes operation of modified utility vehicles, defined in the bill, on public highways with less than four travel lanes where the maximum speed limit is no greater than 55 miles per hour and on public highways with four...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1773Intro

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Exception to stopping requirement; bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric power-assisted bicycle, or motorized skateboard or scooter. Authorizes the operator of a bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device, electric ...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1883Intro

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Permanent farm use placards. Repeals the requirement for the owner or lessee of a vehicle claiming a farm use exemption from the registration, licensing, and decal requirements for a motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer to obtain a nontransferable ...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2218Intro

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School crossing zones; speed decrease; Planning District 8. Authorizes the governing body of a county in Planning District 8 to decrease the speed limit in a school crossing zone if the school board having jurisdiction over such school passes a resol...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2379Intro

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Virginia Highway Safety Improvement Program; surplus funds. Provides that for any fiscal year, beginning in fiscal year 2024, in which there is a surplus, the Governor shall include in his proposed budget an appropriation of 10 percent of such surplu...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB2088Intro

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Personalized license plates; references to Confederacy or persons who committed treason. Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to amend the Personalized License Plate Issuance Guidelines to prohibit the issuance of any personalized license plate t...
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2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB567Intro

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Toll Relief Program; eligibility. Requires the Department of Transportation to expand eligibility for the Toll Relief Program for the tolls on the Downtown and Midtown Tunnels to residents of the Cities of Portsmouth and Norfolk with an income of $45...
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2022-11-22
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB1085Intro

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Peninsula Airport Commission. Adds to the Peninsula Airport Commission (the Commission) two members from the City of Poquoson, two members from the City of Williamsburg, one member from James City County, and one member from York County, appointed by...
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2022-11-22
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB859Intro

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Commissioner of Highways; roadways operating under the Virginia Highway Corporation Act of 1988 to operate under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995. Directs the Commissioner of Highways to evaluate whether it is in the public interest for ...
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2022-11-22
To House Transportation Committee
VAHB699Intro

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Glass replacement in vehicles. Requires the Superintendent of State Police to promulgate regulations consistent with the standards established by the Auto Glass Safety Council regarding the replacement of glass in any vehicle.
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2022-11-22
To House Transportation Committee
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