Transportation Infrastructure and Funding Subcommittee

Tuesday, February 3, 2026·1h 14m·▶ Watch / Listen

The Transportation Infrastructure and Funding Subcommittee tabled five bills — including measures on adult changing stations at rest areas, guardrail modernization, trail designation, and unpaved road funding — while unanimously passing the Petersburg Parking Authority Act and advancing a Hampton Roads infrastructure planning framework to Appropriations.

Key Actions

·HB 1032 – Adult Changing Stations at Rest AreasNo Vote

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Controversies

Whether HB 1032 (adult changing stations) is necessary given VDOT's existing capital plans

Delegate Reid argued the bill was unnecessary because adult changing station upgrades are already in VDOT's capital plan and represent the normal course of doing business, and moved to table. Delegate Wilt and multiple public witnesses — including Heather Rogers, Terry Morgan, Matthew Chaparro, and Monica Drawer — argued the bill was necessary for the dignity and access of people with disabilities.

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Notable Quotes

“The options for changing his diaper become a grassy spot outside of a rest area, a crowded parking lot on the ground, the floor of a public building, or if we're lucky, a couch or a bench, or the disgusting, unsanitary bathroom floor.”
Heather Rogers, resident of Fluviana county — Rogers testified in favor of HB 1032, which would require VDOT to build adult changing stations into rest area renovations and new construction, describing the conditions her family faces when traveling without accessible facilities.

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Votes

Motion to strike HB 1399No Vote

Motion to adopt friendly amendment inserting ADA accessibility language on lines 18 and 19 of the HB 1032 substituteNo Vote

Motion to table HB 1032No Vote

Motion to table HB 1202No Vote

Motion to table HB 1200No Vote

Motion to adopt amendment clarifying certain segments of the Potomac Heritage National Trail included in the state's trail plan (HB 1402)No Vote

Motion to table HB 1402No Vote

Motion to report HB 1448Passed

Motion to table HB 1480No Vote

Motion to adopt substitute for HB 1241No Vote

Motion to adopt friendly amendment adding urban roads to line 12 of HB 1241 substituteNo Vote

Motion to report HB 1241 with substitutes and refer to AppropriationsPassed

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TranscriptPreview

And funding will begin. Let's take a roll, please. Thank you. Then we have a couple of housekeeping. One Housekeeping. House Bill 1399. Patron has asked that we lay that on the table. Strike. Strike that. I mean, strike that. 13.99. So moved. Clerk will open the roll. It. Needs to be changed to strike. Do we destroy the roll and start again? So the motion and seconded is to strike 1399. All right. HB 1399 has been stricken from the roll. We'll turn now to look at our bills. Our first one will be HB13 1032. Delegate Wilt, put you up first. Tell us your bill, what your bill does and why we need it. Thank you, Madam Chair. Committee members, that was great timing. Should have a substitute. Second. Tell us what the substitute does, please. The overall bill has to do with adult changing stations. And so what we've done here basically is requiring that VDOT going forward that. I'm sorry, the substitute added a description of where these changing tables are defined. It was the best source that's out there, according to the sources that I was able to talk to, that, you know, here's the…

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