| VA | SB798 | Pass | Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 149 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB1450 | Pass | Individuals with disabilities; terminology. Replaces various instances of the terms "handicap," "handicapped," and similar variations throughout the Code of Virginia with alternative terms, as appropriate in the statutory context, such as "disability...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 148 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | HB1804 | Pass | Tidal wetland mitigation bank credits. Authorizes certain entities to purchase or use credits from a tidal wetland mitigation bank located in an adjacent river watershed when such bank contains the same plant community type and salinity regime as the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-22
Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 245 (effective 7/1/23) |
| VA | SB1106 | Enroll
75% | Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund. Authorizes the Governor to direct funds from the Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund (Fund) to the Commonwealth Transportation Board for transportation projects determined to be necessary to suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB2302 | Enroll
75% | Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund. Authorizes the Governor to direct funds from the Transportation Partnership Opportunity Fund (Fund) to the Commonwealth Transportation Board for transportation projects determined to be necessary to suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB2161 | Enroll
75% | Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions and hearings; report. Standardizes the frequency and length of time that notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-13
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB1437 | Engross
50% | Installation, maintenance, and operation of devices in highway right-of-way for law-enforcement purposes; regulation authority; civil penalty. Provides that the authority of the Commonwealth Transportation Board to make regulations for the use of sys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1587 | Enroll
75% | Commissioner of Highways; entering into certain agreements; civil penalties; agents. Adds contractors to the list of entities that the Commissioner of Highways, in agreement with Fairfax County, may authorize to act as agents for the enforcement of p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB1035 | Enroll
75% | Bridges; 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] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB1326 | Enroll
75% | Transit Ridership Incentive Program; funds; improving accessibility; transition to zero-emissions. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to use up to 30 percent of available funds in the Transit Ridership Incentive Program to support local, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB2338 | Enroll
75% | Transit Ridership Incentive Program; funds; improving accessibility; transition to zero-emissions. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to use up to 30 percent of available funds in the Transit Ridership Incentive Program to support local, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB1079 | Enroll
75% | Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Allocates 3.5 percent of the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund (the Fund) to commuter rail systems jointly operated by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB1151 | Enroll
75% | Local government; standardization of public notice requirements for certain intended actions and hearings; report. Standardizes the frequency and length of time that notices of certain meetings, hearings, and other intended actions of localities must...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB2034 | Enroll
75% | Joint transportation meeting; National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board. Directs the Commonwealth Transportation Board to invite a Virginia representative of the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board Steering Committee to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-03-02
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | HB1496 | Enroll
75% | Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund. Allocates 3.5 percent of the Commonwealth Mass Transit Fund (the Fund) to commuter rail systems jointly operated by the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and the Potomac and Rappahannock Transportation Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-27
Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 27, 2023 |
| VA | SB929 | Engross
50% | Misdemeanor; maximum term of confinement. Reduces from 12 months to 364 days the maximum term of confinement in jail for a Class 1 misdemeanor. The bill contains technical amendments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Courts of Justice Committee |
| VA | SB1165 | Engross
50% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-22
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1531 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1609 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1750 | Intro
25% | Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth, which would be administered by the Virginia Cannabis Control Authority. The bill allows the Aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | HB1894 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB2379 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | HB1939 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-07
To House Transportation Committee |
| VA | SB1137 | Engross
50% | Creation of Fredericksburg Area Transportation Authority; funding; recordation tax. Creates the Fredericksburg Area Transportation Authority, comprising the counties and cities located in Planning District 16. The Authority will administer transporta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-02-03
Requires 21 affirmative votes for passage |
| VA | SB977 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-01-26
Stricken at request of Patron in Transportation (13-Y 0-N) |
| VA | SB391 | Engross
50% | Cannabis control; retail market; transitional sales by pharmaceutical and industrial hemp processors; penalties. Establishes a framework for the creation of a retail marijuana market in the Commonwealth. The bill creates a regulatory and licensing st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-22
To House General Laws Committee |
| VA | SB220 | Intro
25% | State of good repair funds. Makes bridges with a general condition rating of no greater than five eligible for state of good repair funding. Under current law, structurally deficient bridges and highways with deficient pavement conditions are eligibl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-11-21
To Senate Transportation Committee |
