| Bills | Committee | Last action | Date |
| HB 20 - Jones - Photo speed monitoring devices; location. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Continued to 2025 in Transportation | 02/06/24 |
| notes: Authorizes the governing body of any county, city, or town to provide by ordinance for the placement and operation of photo speed monitoring devices in any location deemed necessary by the locality for the purposes of recording violations resulting from the operation of a vehicle in excess of the speed limit. The bill provides the same requirements for such devices, information collected from such devices, and any enforcement actions resulting from information collected from such devices as current law applies to the use of such devices in school crossing zones and highway work zones. The bill requires that two signs, rather than one, be placed warning of such device if the device is placed somewhere other than a school crossing zone or highway work zone. | |||
| HB 143 - Reid - Utility work database; VDOT to establish and maintain a publicly accessible database. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0271) | 04/02/24 |
| notes: 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. | |||
| HB 144 - Reid - Speed limits; notification to primary liaison in each locality when change occurs. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0272) | 04/02/24 |
| notes: Requires the Department of Transportation, if the Commissioner of Highways increases or decreases a speed limit, to (i) notify the primary liaison with the Department in each locality within which such speed limit change will occur and (ii) place roadside signage notifying drivers of the upcoming change in such speed limit. The bill also requires the Department to notify the governing body of any property owners' association or condominium association if any such speed limit change will occur in a community subject to such association. | |||
| HB 201 - Krizek - Transportation entities, certain; membership. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0633) | 04/08/24 |
| notes: 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 Northern Virginia Transportation Authority who are appointed by the Speaker of the House of Delegates to be members of the House of Delegates. | |||
| HB 282 - Seibold - Highway work zones; creates a traffic infraction for any moving violation in a work zone. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0138) | 03/26/24 |
| notes: 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 that for any subsequent offense that occurs within the same 12-month period as another such offense such fine shall be not less than $750. | |||
| HB 425 - Green - Motor Vehicles, Department of; release of privileged information. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0189) | 03/28/24 |
| notes: Permits the Department of Motor Vehicles to release personal, nonmedical information necessary for use in connection with any proceeding administered by the Department to any party to such proceeding. | |||
| HB 447 - Williams - Motor vehicle rental and peer-to-peer vehicle sharing tax; disposition. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Continued to 2025 in Transportation | 02/08/24 |
| notes: Redirects revenues derived from motor vehicle rental and peer-to-peer vehicle sharing taxes from the Commonwealth Transportation Fund to the Special Fund for Administration of Aviation Laws, to be used for the administration of aviation laws and the construction, maintenance, and improvement of airports. | |||
| HB 775 - Herring - License plate reader systems; use by law-enforcement agencies, civil penalty. | (H) Committee on Communications, Technology and Innovation (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (S) Continued to 2025 in Courts of Justice (12-Y 0-N) | 02/28/24 |
| notes: 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 vehicles and license plate numbers for the purpose of identifying a vehicle that is (i) associated with a wanted, missing, or endangered person or human trafficking; (ii) stolen; (iii) involved in an active law-enforcement investigation; or (iv) in the vicinity of a recent crime and may be connected to that crime. The bill authorizes and requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to establish a permitting process for installing and using such systems in state highway rights-of-way. | |||
| HB 915 - Srinivasan - Highway Corporation Act of 1988; quarterly reports. | (H) Committee on Transportation | (H) Continued to 2025 in Transportation (22-Y 0-N) | 02/01/24 |
| notes: 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 Committees on Transportation a complete financial report and provide any additional current and historical financial information as requested by any of the same such entities. | |||
| HB 1071 - Carr - Speed limits; expands authority of any locality to reduce limit to less than 25 miles per hour. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Approved by Governor-Chapter 842 (effective 7/1/24) | 05/17/24 |
| notes: Expands the current authority of any locality to reduce the speed limit to less than 25 miles per hour, but not less than 15 miles per hour, on highways within its boundaries that are located in a business district or residence district to include highways within the state highway system, provided that such reduced speed limit is indicated by lawfully placed signs. | |||
| HB 1425 - Austin - Virginia Passenger Rail Authority; exempts railway tunnels and bridges from Building Code. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0078) | 03/14/24 |
| notes: Exempts railway tunnels and bridges owned by the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority from the Uniform Statewide Building Code and the Statewide Fire Prevention Code Act. The bill requires the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to report annually to the State Fire Marshal on the maintenance and operability of installed fire protection and detection systems in its railway tunnels and bridges. | |||
| HB 1524 - Lopez - Mobile machinery and equipment; tax credit for purchase. | (H) Committee on Finance | (H) Continued to 2025 in Finance | 02/07/24 |
| notes: Creates a nonrefundable tax credit for taxable years 2025 through 2029 in an amount equal to 20 percent of the purchase price paid, as defined in the bill, during the taxable year for machinery and equipment used to reclaim, recycle, or reprocess existing asphalt materials from pavements and roadways. The bill requires a taxpayer to submit invoices with an income tax return verifying the amount of purchase price paid for such machinery and equipment. The bill provides a $3 million aggregate annual cap on the number of credits to be distributed, as administered by the Department of Taxation. Any credit not used for the taxable year in which the purchasing price for recycling machinery was paid may be carried over for the next 10 years until the total credit amount is used. | |||
| SB 205 - Diggs - Toll invoices; mail. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Finance and Appropriations | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0068) | 03/14/24 |
| notes: Authorizes the use of a trackable correspondence equivalent to certified mail for sending invoices for unpaid tolls to a vehicle owner prior to the Department of Motor Vehicles placing a registration stop on such vehicle due to unpaid tolls. Current law requires such invoices to be mailed by certified mail. | |||
| SB 226 - Hackworth - Highway use fee; DMV to convene work group to determine tiered flat rate system, report. | (H) Committee on Appropriations (S) Committee on Rules | (H) Continued to 2025 in Appropriations | 02/28/24 |
| notes: Directs the Department of Motor Vehicles to convene a work group to determine the feasibility of implementing a tiered flat rate system to accurately determine the correct amount of highway use fee to be charged at the point of sale of a motor vehicle. The bill directs the work group to complete its work and report its findings and recommendations to the Chairs of the Senate and House Committees on Transportation no later than November 15, 2024. | |||
| SB 503 - Surovell - License plate reader systems; use by law-enforcement agencies, civil penalty. | (S) Committee for Courts of Justice | (S) Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) | 02/13/24 |
| notes: 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 vehicles and license plate numbers for the purpose of identifying a vehicle that is (i) associated with a wanted, missing, or endangered person or human trafficking; (ii) stolen; (iii) involved in an active law-enforcement investigation; or (iv) in the vicinity of a recent crime and may be connected to that crime. The bill authorizes and requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to establish a permitting process for installing and using such systems in state highway rights-of-way. | |||
| SB 572 - Obenshain - School buses; increases maximum width of vehicles. | (H) Committee on Transportation (S) Committee on Transportation | (G) Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0361) | 04/02/24 |
| notes: Increases from 100 inches to 102 inches the maximum total outside width permitted for school buses. | |||