House Transportation Committee reports contested parking and transit bills and a block of unanimous measures

The House Committee on Transportation moved to report three contested Senate bills and a block of unanimous transportation measures during a brief session in which members registered assent by voice and the clerk opened and closed the roll without recorded tallies in the transcript.

The committee chair said the panel would first consider three contested measures and then report the remaining bills as a block. The first contested bill was Senate Bill 67, patron Senator Diggs, which the chair described as identical to Delegate Anderson's House Bill 783 and as addressing parking enforcement and the issuing of summonses for parking tickets. The chair said the bill would "remove[] the population requirement for a locality to be authorized" to use the summons procedure; the motion to report was moved and seconded and the clerk opened and closed the roll. The transcript records the chair announcing the bill reported, but no roll-call vote counts appear in the record.

The committee next took up Senate Bill 445, patron Senator Bagby. The chair stated a substitute was available online "to conform this bill" and the committee moved the substitute. Members voiced assent and the chair said the substitute now matched what the Senate adopted for Delegate Sewell's measure. The clerk opened and closed the roll and the chair announced the substitute was reported.

Senate Bill 583, patron Senator Saleem, was the third contested item. The chair said it is identical to Delegate Reid's House Bill 584 and concerns parking, stopping and standing enforcement for bus monitoring systems. The motion to report was moved and seconded, the clerk opened and closed the roll, and the chair announced the bill passed.

After those three items the committee reported several additional Senate bills on a single unanimous block. The chair read the list of bills and patrons the transcript records (Senate Bills 17, 204, 320, 550, 573, 716 and others), each described as identical to a named House bill. The block motion was moved and seconded, the clerk opened and closed the roll, and the chair reported the block passed.

The meeting concluded with the chair noting subcommittees will meet and that members will reconvene at a future Thursday meeting; the chair then adjourned the committee by voice vote.

Quotes from the meeting include the chair's description of the day's plan: "we're going to be looking at bills that are identical or soon to be identical to house bills that we've already seen," and the chair's summary of SB 67's effect: "It removes the population requirement for a locality to be authorized." These quotes are attributed in the transcript to the committee chair (unnamed in the record). The transcript does not record specific mover or seconder names for the motions, nor does it contain roll-call tallies for individual votes.