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| HB 1496 | Purkey | Summary as introduced: Possession of open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle; penalty. Provides that no person shall possess an alcoholic beverage in the passenger area of a motor vehicle upon a public highway of the Commonwealth in other than the manufacturer's unopened, original container. The bill punishes violation with a civil penalty of $25. | (H) Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | |
| HB 1504 | Shuler | Summary as introduced: Business, Professional and Occupational Licensing Tax (BPOL); license fees, rates and requirements.Requires localities that impose the BPOL tax to (i) eliminate license fees by January 1, 2007, (ii) exempt the first $100,000 of gross receipts from taxation by January 1, 2007, and (iii) reduce the several different rates currently in the Code to a flat rate of 20 cents per $100 of gross receipts for license years beginning on and after January 1, 2006. | (H) Referred to Committee on Finance | |
| HB 1506 | Shuler | Summary as introduced: Estate tax. Exempts from the estate tax (i) all estates where the majority of assets are an interest in a closely held business, including working farms, and (ii) all estates where the gross estate is worth $10 million or less. | (H) Referred to Committee on Finance | |
| HB 1508 | Landes | Summary as introduced: Motor vehicle sales and use tax; exemption for limited liability companies. Adds limited liability companies to the existing motor vehicle sales and use tax exemption for certain transfers from individuals or partnerships to corporations or from corporations to individuals or partnerships. Based on advice from the Attorney General's office, DMV would not apply the exemption to limited liability companies without this change. | (H) Referred to Committee on Finance | |
| HB 1526 | Frederick | Summary as introduced: VDOT noise abatement policies. Provides that whenever (i) there is a conflict between published noise abatement policies of the Department and those published by the federal highway administration or other federal agencies under authority of the National Environmental Policy Act or any amendments thereto or (ii) the noise abatement policy of the Department is silent as to a situation or circumstance covered by a policy published by the federal highway administration or other federal agencies under authority of the National Environmental Policy Act or any amendments thereto, the provisions of the federal policy shall be controlling. The provisions of the bill apply to all highways and highway maintenance or construction projects, regardless of federal funding or the lack of such federal funding. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1527 | Frederick | Summary as introduced: Audits of Virginia Department of Transportation. Requires that, beginning July 1, 2005, and at least once every two years thereafter, the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner must accept contract proposals from private companies for the purpose of conducting thorough, comprehensive, and independent audits of the Department of Transportation. The major purpose of any such audit will be to ensure that taxes and fees dedicated to transportation purposes are actually expended for transportation infrastructure construction, improvement, and maintenance, and are not wasted on unnecessary and unproductive bureaucracy. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1528 | Frederick | Summary as introduced: HOV facilities. Bars trucks and tractor-trailer combinations from HOV facilities, except for vehicles of public utility companies operating in response to emergency calls. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1533 | Frederick | Summary as introduced: Income tax; age deduction. Reinstates the $6,000 and $12,000 deduction for taxpayers aged 62 through 64, and 65 and older, respectively, for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2005. However, individuals with taxable income exceeding $150,000 and married couples with taxable income exceeding $250,000 are not eligible for the deduction. | (H) Referred to Committee on Finance | |
| HB 1536 | Frederick | Summary as introduced: Keep Our Promise Act of 2005; car tax relief. Removes the cap on the overall amount of car tax relief that was created by Chapter 1 of the Acts of Assembly of 2004 Special Session I and restores the car tax relief program as it was originally enacted. | (H) Referred to Committee on Appropriations | |
| HB 1548 | Scot, E.T. | Summary as introduced: Special revenue sharing funds for certain towns; highway maintenance and construction funding. Authorizes the establishment of special revenue sharing funds for towns, similar to those authorized under § 33.1-75.1 for counties, to aid in highway projects undertaken jointly by towns and adjoining counties. Allocations by the Commonwealth Transportation Board would be made ''off the top'' of other allocations to match up to $500,000 in town general funds. Operation of these funds would parallel those established for counties. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1551 | Alexander | Summary as introduced: Sale price of motor vehicles subject to the motor vehicle sales and use tax. Reduces the taxable price of a motor vehicle purchased for business purposes in determining motor vehicle sales and use tax liability, by the value of any motor vehicle taken in trade. The amount of credit for a vehicle taken in trade is the lesser of the allowance given by the seller or the wholesale value of the vehicle as specified in a recognized pricing guide. | (H) Referred to Committee on Finance | |
| HB 1552 | Alexander | Summary as introduced: Sale price of motor vehicles subject to the motor vehicle sales and use tax; reduction for trade-in. Reduces the taxable price of a motor vehicle for purposes of determining motor vehicle sales and use tax liability by the value of any motor vehicle taken in trade. The amount of credit for a vehicle taken in trade is the lesser of the allowance given by the seller or the wholesale value of the vehicle as specified in a recognized pricing guide. | (H) Referred to Committee on Finance | |
| HB 1560 | Marshall, R.G. | Summary as introduced: Biennial budget; failure to enact. Provides for the continuation of the budget in effect through June 30 of an even-numbered year for the next fiscal year in the event that the General Assembly fails to enact a biennial budget by May 1 of that even-numbered year. | (H) Referred to Committee on Appropriations | |
| HB 1563 | Rust | Summary as introduced: Assessment of fees by Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on certain drivers; use of fees collected. Requires the DMV Commissioner to impose and collect fees on drivers who have accumulated more than six net driver demerit points or have been convicted of reckless driving, aggressive driving, driving on a suspended or revoked license, DUI, or any other misdemeanor involving operation of a motor vehicle. These fees, minus cost of collection, will be used to support issuance of bonds whose proceeds are to be used for transportation construction, reconstruction, maintenance, maintenance replacement, and/or improvement projects. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1564 | Purkey | Summary as introduced: Assessment of fees by Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on certain drivers; use of fees collected. Requires the courts to impose, in addition to any other penalties imposed, civil penalties on drivers convicted of certain offenses: $100 for speeding at least 15 but not more than 19 miles per hour above the posted speed, $250 for driving while his driver's license was suspended or revoked, $300 for reckless driving or aggressive driving, and $500 for driving while intoxicated. These fees, minus cost of collection, will be used to support issuance of bonds whose proceeds are to be used for transportation construction, reconstruction, maintenance, maintenance replacement, and/or improvement projects. The bill also revises the schedule of driver demerit points to be awarded for speeding so that speeding 1-9 mph carries three points, 10-14 mph carries four points, 15-19 mph carries five points, and 20 mph or more carries six points. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1568 | Purkey | Summary as introduced: Automatic reduction in general fund appropriations by Governor. Requires the Governor, whenever general fund revenue collections for a period of six months or more show that year-to-date revenue growth is in excess of one percent below the official estimate upon which the appropriation act is based for such fiscal year, to institute an across-the-board percentage reduction in general fund appropriations to all executive branch agencies, which shall equal at least one-half of the revenue shortfall. Such action shall be communicated to the chairmen of the money committees within five days of its adoption. | (H) Referred to Committee on Appropriations | |
| HB 1569 | Oder | Summary as introduced: Safety belts. Requires all persons who are at least 16 years old to use safety belts when occupying any seat in a motor vehicle. | (H) Referred to Committee on Militia, Police and Public Safety | |
| HB 1602 | Fralin | Summary as introduced: Environmental impact reviews. Requires state natural and historic resources agencies to complete their reviews and comments on a highway or road construction project funded by the Commonwealth Transportation Board within six months of the date the project is funded. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1609 | Cole | Summary as introduced: Charlottesville bypass. Requires that, if the U.S. Route 29 bypass is not constructed and reimbursement of federal funds expended in connection with that project is required, the amount of such reimbursement shall be deducted from funds allocated or allocable to primary system projects in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, rather than from funds allocated or allocable to the Culpeper Highway Construction District. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1610 | Cole | Summary as introduced: Sales and use tax; allocation of revenue. Increases the sales and use tax revenue dedicated to the transportation trust fund from an amount equivalent to the amount raised by a one-half percent tax to a three-quarters percent tax. | (H) Referred to Committee on Appropriations | |
| HB 1611 | Cole | Summary as introduced: Special identification cards; fees. Reduces the fee for issuance of special identification cards issued to persons who are 70 years old or older from $10 to $5. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1613 | Cole | Summary as introduced: Special license plates; local government logos; fees. Reduces the annual surcharge for local government logo plates from $25 to $10, with each such $10 surcharge (after the first 1,000 sets) going to the locality whose logo is displayed on the plates. However, if a locality's local governing body so requests in writing to the Commissioner, the annual surcharge will be $25, with $15 being returned to the locality. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 1636 | Miles | Summary as introduced: Motor vehicle rental taxes. Requires that all revenue from the state motor vehicle rental taxes be deposited into the Transportation Trust Fund and used solely for transportation purposes. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1640 | Miles | Summary as introduced: Registration of uninsured motor vehicles; fee. Increases the fee charged by the Department of Motor Vehicles for registration of an uninsured motor vehicle from $500 to $1000. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1641 | Orrock | Summary as introduced: Motor fuels tax; refund. Provides a 55 percent refund of the motor fuels tax paid by any person purchasing fuel for consumption in a vehicle designed or adapted solely and exclusively for bulk spreading or spraying of agricultural liming materials, chemicals, or fertilizer, where the vehicle's equipment is mechanically or hydraulically driven by an internal combustion engine that propels the vehicle. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1650 | Orrock | Summary as introduced: Transportation bonds; use of surplus revenues to pay debt service. Requires surplus revenue collections, after deposits are made to the Revenue Stabilization Fund and the Water Quality Improvement Fund, to be deposited in the Transportation Trust Fund and used to pay debt service on previously issued transportation bonds. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1685 | Tata | Summary as introduced: Sale of school property; transportation purposes. Empowers local school boards to sell property to the Virginia Department of Transportation or the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner when such conveyance is necessary for transportation purposes. Such transfers shall not require (i) school boards to declare the property as surplus or (ii) the exercise of eminent domain by the Commissioner. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1686 | Orrock | Summary as introduced: Bills authorizing debt. Provides that no bill authorizing the Commonwealth or any institution, agency, or authority thereof to incur debt shall be considered by a committee of the General Assembly without having a written estimate, prepared by the Department of Planning and Budget, of the total cost of issuing and paying off the debt. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1714 | Kilgore | Summary as introduced: Garnishment; increasing maximum portion of protected disposable earnings. Increases the amount of a worker's aggregate disposable earnings protected from garnishment. Currently, the amount subject to garnishment may not exceed the lesser of (i) 25 percent of the worker's disposable weekly earnings or (ii) the amount by which his disposable earnings exceed 30 times the federal minimum hourly wage. This bill would raise the federal minimum wage multiplier from 30 to 40. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1752 | Janis | Summary as introduced: Administrative Process Act; judicial review. Provides that the right to direct review of an agency action authorized under the Administrative Process Act shall be in addition to, and not in limitation of, the right of any person to seek declaratory relief in cases of actual controversy between such person and any agency concerning any matter, other than the adoption of a regulation or case decision. | (H) Referred to Committee on General Laws | |
| HB 1784 | BaCote | Summary as introduced: Subdivision street standards. Allows county boards to establish standards for subdivision streets that differ from VDOT standards. If they do so, the amount of money allocated or allocable to the county for secondary system construction is not to be reduced. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1815 | Marshall, R.G. | Summary as introduced: Commonwealth Transportation Expedition Fund. Dedicate one-half of all insurance license tax revenues to expedite transportation projects throughout the Commonwealth that are within two years of completion. The Commonwealth Transportation Board shall use the funds to expedite the completion of those transportation projects that it determines will have the greatest impact on (i) reducing poor air quality, (ii) reducing traffic congestion, and (iii) aiding the safety of motorists or pedestrians. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1823 | Frederick | Summary as introduced: Zoning ordinances; transportation requirements. Provides that in determining the transportation requirements of the community, and prior to adopting a zoning ordinance or any amendment thereto, the locality shall conduct an assessment of road improvement needs within the locality and determine the impact of any proposed zoning amendment upon the existing road capacity. If a proposed zoning amendment will cause existing roads to exceed capacity, or if the impacted roads already exceed capacity, the proposed rezoning shall not be approved until the locality adopts a plan to fund road improvements necessary to meet road improvement needs and impacts. |
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| HB 1825 | Frederick | Summary as introduced: Town of Dumfries; construction of debris barrier. Authorizes the Town of Dumfries to use the I-95 right-of-way to construct a barrier to prevent the deposition of highway debris on property abutting the right of way. Costs of construction are to be paid out of funds allocated for primary system highway construction in the Northern Virginia District. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1828 | Janis | Summary as introduced: Motorcycles; helmets. Allows certain persons who are more than 21 years old, subject to payment to DMV of a fee of $1 per year, to ride motorcycles helmet-free. The bill also provides that violations of the ''helmet law'' (i) are punishable by a civil penalty of $25, to be paid into the Motorcycle Ride Safety Training Fund; (ii) are not to be assessed demerit points or court costs; (iii) do not constitute negligence and cannot be commented on by counsel in any action for the recovery of damages; (iv) may be charged on the uniform traffic summons form; and (v) are ''secondary offenses.'' | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1832 | Parrish | Summary as introduced: Vapor recovery equipment. Provides that any air pollution control regulation requiring the use of stage 1 vapor recovery equipment require the use of such equipment only in areas that are designated by EPA as nonattainment areas for the pollutant ozone. Current regulations require the use of such equipment for those areas that have been designated at any time as nonattainment areas. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1855 | Eisenberg | Summary as introduced: Transportation construction and reconstruction. Specifies actions that must be taken (i) by VDOT prior to undertaking any highway construction or reconstruction project in Northern Virginia if the project involves construction of new traffic lanes or modification of existing lanes (ii) by any state agency in connection with any highway construction or reconstruction project under the Public-Private Transportation Act of 1995. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1874 | McDougle | Summary as introduced: Estate tax. Conforms the amount of Virginia estate tax due from an estate to the maximum amount of the federal estate tax credit for state estate taxes, as permitted under federal estate tax law, as such law shall be amended from time to time. Under current law the amount of Virginia estate tax cannot be less than the federal credit under federal law as such law existed on January 1, 1978. Because under current federal law there is no state estate tax credit, the bill eliminates the current Virginia estate tax. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1910 | Baskerville | Summary as introduced: Estate tax. Removes the estate tax from those estates (i) valued at $10 million or less, or (ii) of which a majority of the assets are an interest in a closely held business, including a working farm. | (H) Referred to Committee on Finance | |
| HB 1954 | Jones, D.C. | Summary as introduced: Highway construction, maintenance, and improvement contracts. Gives the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner authority to let all contracts for highway construction, maintenance, and improvements up to $10 million in value instead of the present $2 million. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1965 | Ingram | Summary as introduced: Transient occupancy tax; Prince George County. Authorizes Prince George County to impose a transient occupancy tax up to 5 percent. All revenues collected from that portion of the tax in excess of two percent shall be designated and spent by the county solely for constructing public infrastructure for a public water supply, including the payment of any debt service on bonds or other obligations issued for such purposes, (i) that will allow for the construction of hotels, motels, restaurants, conference centers, and other tourism-related businesses located in an enterprise zone within the county; and (ii) that will be provided predominantly to nonresidential customers. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1968 | Amundson | Summary as introduced: Parking. Grants counties with populations of more than 500,000 and the towns within those counties expanded powers to regulate parking of large, heavy vehicles within their boundaries. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1972 | Black | Summary as introduced: Northern Virginia Transportation District Program. Allocates funding to the Route 28/Sterling Boulevard interchange in Loudoun County. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 1979 | Janis | Summary as introduced: Motorcycles; wearing of helmets; penalty. Limits the application of the ''motor cycle helmet law'' to operators and passengers who are less than 21 years old. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2000 | Griffith | Summary as introduced: BPOL tax; gross receipts. Changes name from license tax to gross receipts tax and repeals newspapers'' exemption from the tax. It allows localities to exempt newspapers from the BPOL tax provided they are exempt from state sales tax. However, if the locality imposes the tax on newspapers, 50 percent of the revenues generated from the tax on newspapers must be used for the locality's arts, cultural or tourist attractions. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2020 | Welch | Summary as introduced: Use of steel plates in highway repairs. Requires that any person who uses steel plates in connection with highway repairs to follow VDOT standards as to warnings and markings. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2065 | Parrish | Summary as introduced: Taxation; nonresident contractor withholding. Establishes a procedure for withholding taxes from nonresident contractors based on the contract price. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2084 | Watts | Summary as introduced: Commonwealth Transportation Board. Clarifies the roles of the Commonwealth Transportation Board and local governing bodies when the latter administer VDOT-financed projects. The bill also corrects obsolete cross-references. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2092 | Hugo | Summary as introduced: Sales and use tax; exemption for certain contractors. Exempts from paying the sales and use tax any person who contracts to perform services for and provides tangible personal property for consumption or use by the Commonwealth, any political subdivision of the Commonwealth, or the United States, if the Commonwealth, political subdivision, or the United States certifies that title to such tangible personal property will pass to such governmental entity. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2093 | Hugo | Summary as introduced: Financing of transportation ''enhancement'' projects. Requires that, in financing ''enhancement'' projects undertaken using federal grants to homeowners associations, no more than two percent of any such grant can be spent for environmental studies or other studies and activities preliminary to construction. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2099 | Hugo | Summary as introduced: Transportation Investment Act. Provides long-term funding of transportation projects throughout the Commonwealth by dedicating all insurance license tax revenues for such purpose. The Commonwealth Transportation Board is authorized to issue revenue bonds using no more than one-third of the insurance license tax revenues for debt service on the bonds. The amount of insurance license tax revenues not used for debt service, plus the proceeds of the bonds, are allocated to each highway construction district for transportation projects on a pro rata basis according to population. The transportation projects to be funded shall be determined by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2151 | Amundson | Summary as introduced: Virginia Public Procurement Act; preference for Virginia firms. Provides that whenever any bidder is a resident of any other state and such state under its laws allows a resident contractor of that state a preference, a like preference shall be allowed to the lowest responsible bidder who is a resident of Virginia. Currently, a preference for Virginia resident may be given. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2160 | Reese | Summary as introduced: Income tax and sales and use tax revenue; allocation of certain growth for transportation. Allocates 20 percent of the annual growth in income tax and sales tax revenue coming from Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads back to those regions for transportation purposes. The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority administers the funds for transportation projects in Northern Virginia. The bill creates the Hampton Roads Transportation Authority to administer the funds for transportation projects in the Hampton Roads area. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2190 | Wardrup | Summary as introduced: Business, professional and occupational license (BPOL) tax; newspapers'' exemption. Repeals the BPOL tax exemption for newspapers, magazines, newsletters or other publications issued daily or regularly at average intervals not exceeding three months, provided they also have a sales tax exemption. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2224 | Rust | Summary as introduced: Transportation construction and maintenance. Revises Virginia's transportation construction and maintenance allocation system in accordance with recommendations made by the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission to the 2002 Session of the General Assembly. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2226 | Rust | Summary as introduced: Urban and secondary highway system construction allocations. Allocates urban system and secondary system highway construction funds among affected jurisdictions on the basis of (i) area, (ii) vehicle miles traveled, and (iii) population, with area being weighted 15 percent, vehicle miles traveled weighted 25 percent, and population weighted 60 percent. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2229 | Rust | Summary as introduced: Reimbursement by localities of certain transportation expenses. Provides that if the Commonwealth expends funds for the design of transportation improvements and the locality in which the improvements are located subsequently decides that it is opposed to proceeding with the improvements, the locality shall reimburse the Commonwealth for the amount expended. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2241 | O'Bannon | Summary as introduced: Business, professional and occupational license tax; real estate appraisal entities. Exempts from the BPOL tax the gross receipts that are received by an appraisal entity from real estate appraisal transactions when such amounts are paid to an appraiser affiliated with the appraisal entity as a fee and the appraiser pays the BPOL tax on such receipts. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2259 | Bell | Summary as introduced: Maliciously running over road flares; penalty. Provides that any person who willfully and intentionally destroys a flare, reflectorized triangular warning device, vehicular hazard warning signal flasher, traffic cone, or any other such signal while it is being used to indicate that a vehicle is stopped on any roadway or on the shoulder of any highway in the Commonwealth is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | C |
| HB 2277 | Oder | Summary as introduced: Oversize vehicles; use of cameras in identification. Authorizes the Virginia Department of Transportation to use cameras, instead of tape measures, to identify vehicles that exceed the overhead clearance of any tunnel, bridge, or other structure, when the accuracy of the camera in identifying oversize vehicles has been certified by the weights and measures division of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 2278 | Oder | Summary as introduced: Tunnels; oversize vehicles. Provides that any person who drives or attempts to drive any vehicle into or through any tunnel when the height of such vehicle exceeds that permitted for such tunnel is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor (fine up to $500) and will be assessed three driver demerit points. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2283 | Janis | Summary as introduced: Virginia Public Procurement Act; contract disputes. Provides a default contract claim procedure in the event a public body has not included such a procedure in the procurement contract. The bill also provides that a failure of a public body to render a final decision on a contractual claim shall be deemed a denial of the claim, for which the contractor would have the right to institute legal action. The bill contains technical amendments. | H) Assigned to General Laws sub-committee: Subcommittee #2... | |
| HB 2286 | Brink | Summary as introduced: Extended Service Contract Act. Increases the fee for registering or renewing a registration under the Extended Service Contract Act from $100 to $300. The measure also imposes late fees of $100 per 30 day period or portion thereof that an obligor is late in registering and $50 per 30 day period or portion thereof that an obligor is late in renewing its registration. A registration or renewal is not to be considered filed until all required information and fees are submitted. Finally, the measure specifies that registrations be renewed annually on July 1. | (H) Committee Referral Pending | |
| HB 2292 | Lingamfelter | Summary as introduced: Transportation Trust Fund; dedication of certain recordation tax revenue. Dedicates to the Transportation Trust Fund the additional recordation tax revenue generated by the recordation tax increase enacted during the 2004 Special Session I. | (H) Assigned to App. sub-committee: Budget Review | C |
| HB 2298 | Fralin | Summary as introduced: Land exchange. Authorizes the exchange of land in Roanoke County between the Commonwealth and the Mennel Milling Company, with the land to be acquired by the Commonwealth to be used as a VDOT maintenance facility. | (H) Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | |
| HB 2307 | McDougle | Summary as introduced: Logo sign program; emergency. Requires the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Commonwealth Transportation Board to take immediate action to make two specific changes to the ''bumping policy'' associated with the Department's Integrated Directional Signing Program. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 2322 | Rust | Summary as introduced: Primary system highway construction allocation. Provides that funds for construction projects in the primary highway system will be distributed among the nine highway construction districts on the basis of vehicle miles traveled per lane-mile. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 2330 | Athey | Summary as introduced: Special funds for highway improvements in localities. Expands the present revenue sharing fund program for counties to include cities and towns as well. The annual match limit is raised to $5 million per locality, and the total limit on state funds is raised to $100 million. Up to half of local contributions may take the form of proffers. Since the program now applies to all localities (not just counties), the present section embodying the program is repealed, and the new program is relocated to the article of Chapter 1 of Title 33.1 dealing with overall allocations of highway improvement funds. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 2331 | Athey | Summary as introduced: Designation of private roads as highways for law-enforcement purposes. Allows local governing bodies to designate the private roads within any residential development containing 50 or more lots as highways for law-enforcement purposes. Present law allows this only for developments with 100 or more lots. | (H) Referred to Committee on Transportation | |
| HB 2340 | Putney | Summary as introduced: Local license fees and taxes; exemption. Provides an exemption from local license fees and taxes to an entity that manufactures and sells the manufactured goods at the place they were manufactured. Under current law such exemption is restricted to the sale of such goods at wholesale. | (H) Assigned to Finance sub-committee: #1 | |
| HB 2346 | Marshall, R.G. | Summary as introduced: Impact fees. Allows localities to adopt provisions for the assessment of impact fees. The impact fees may be assessed in relation to the adequacy of education, transportation, parks, or public safety needs.%A0 Such fees shall be a pro rata share of the costs of reasonable and necessary capital improvements attributable to the proposed development.%A0 Prior to any impact fee assessment, the locality must identify the particular public facility needs in its comprehensive plan, and must have in place a capital improvement program that provides a reasonable basis for determining the extent or level of inadequacy of such facilities in the area of the proposed development. If the locality does not apply impact fees paid by a developer to the capital project that served as the basis for such assessment within six years of collection, then the developer may seek a writ of mandamus to compel the locality to do so. Any impact fee ordinances shall expire after six years, and may then be adopted for consecutive six-year periods. | (H) Referred to Committee on Counties, Cities and Towns | |
| HB 2355 | Watts | Summary as introduced: Highway construction funds; primary system allocations. Allocates primary system construction funds among the nine highway construction districts on the basis of the ratio of vehicle-miles traveled on the primary system in each district divided by the number of primary system lane miles in each district, weighted 90 percent, and a primary road need factor, as determined by the Commonwealth Transportation Board, weighted 10 percent. | (H) Referred t |