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Subcommittee backs HB 2138 to eliminate duplicative VDOT reporting requirements
Summary
The subcommittee voted to report HB 2138, a VDOT-sponsored cleanup bill that would eliminate duplicative reporting requirements tied to the Innovation and Technology Transportation Fund and remove an obsolete enactment-clause report; the motion passed with 70 affirmative votes.
The Transportation Infrastructure and Funding Subcommittee voted to report House Bill 2138, a measure carried for the Virginia Department of Transportation that would remove duplicative reporting requirements and an obsolete report tied to a repealed subsection of the Code of Virginia.
A delegate presenting the bill said it is “a clean up bill that would eliminate duplicative reporting requirements.” VDOT staff member Joanne Maxwell explained the changes: “We have to re, report on the use of funds in the Innovation and Technology Transportation Fund in 2 places in 2 reports. ... We just wanna eliminate the latter, the requirement to report in the latter.” Maxwell said VDOT would still produce the annual fund report and sought repeal of an additional report requirement tied to an enactment clause associated with a subsection of code that was repealed in 2022.
No public opposition is recorded in the provided transcript. The subcommittee moved to report the bill; the clerk closed the roll and the presenter was told, “your bill reports 70.” The transcript does not include the bill's fiscal note or specific code citations for the enactment clause referenced.
VDOT framed the bill as an efficiency measure to reduce unnecessary reporting.
