The Transportation Infrastructure and Funding Subcommittee advanced two bills without opposition: one expanding human trafficking information at interstate rest areas, and one removing a residency-district restriction that had blocked counties from abandoning unneeded secondary roads. SB321 passed 10-0.
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“Prince William county has numerous examples where roads no longer serve a need. They're unused and or unwanted, but they remain open to the public and in the state maintenance system because they are located outside of a residential district, typically in an industrial commercial area.”
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Sign in to subscribeGood morning. Welcome to the House Committee on Transportation. The subcommittee, Transportation Infrastructure and Funding. Thanks for being with us. Here for first, we'll have. Clerk, open the roll, please. We have nine present. Thank you very much. We have two bills today, House Senate Bill 95 and Senate Bill 321. And they are Senate bills and we do not have the folks here, but I think maybe we can. We can go ahead and entertain them. I don't think they were contested. Mr. Counsel, would you mind maybe discussing SB95 for us? Madam Chair, SB95, Patron by Senator Rome, relates to rest area signage, human traffic information. Adds information about human trafficking and how to self identify the signs of human trafficking to the notice required to be posted by the Department of Transportation at all rest areas along any interstate highway. Current law requires the Department to post notice of the existence of a human trafficking hotline. Thank you. And is there fiscal impact on this? I don't see one anywhere. All right, do we have any comments, questions from folks on the committee? How about in our audience? Anybody want to speak for this bill? All right,…
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