New co-patrons
We are working with anticipation as the Bicyclist Safety Act is gaining momentum ahead of its first committee meetings. As supportive messages are starting to trickle in, we have gotten new co-patrons for each bill. This shows that leadership in each house has taken notice of the BSA and folks are joining on for the effort.
Senator Morrissey’s bill, SB1263, is now co-patroned by Senator Boysko and Delegate Rasoul.
Delegate Hurst’s bill, HB2262, is no co-patroned by Senator Surovell and Delegates Hudson and Simonds.
Changes to committees and meeting times
There are a lot of conflicting times advertised for meetings on various web pages, so we are doing our best to track these for you. The House Motor Vehicles subcommittee, where the house bill is assigned, now meets earlier in the day than last year. Monday’s meeting this week was at 11am instead of 4pm – adjust your schedules accordingly and we will keep an eye on future dockets to ensure 11am is the consistent time.
Also of note, there are some changes to committee assignments. Senator Stanley from Glade Hill is replacing Senator Pillion from Abingdon on Senate Transportation, so make sure we’re getting our information and support to his office.
Upcoming meetings
These bills are not yet docketed at the time of this writing, but we are expecting them to go to their first committee meetings as follows:
Thursday 1/21 – Senate Transportation Committee
Monday 1/25 – House Motor Vehicle Subcommittee
Get your emails and calls into their offices the day before the meeting for best effect.
Supporters for the bills:
- City of Richmond supports the Safety Stop
- City of Alexandria
- Virginia Bicycling Federation
- Sports Backers
- Lime Mobility
- Virginia Conservation Network
- Washington Area Bicyclist Association
- Piedmont Environmental Council
- Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Coalition
- Urban Cycling Group
- All four Virginia chapters of Families for Safe Streets
- Richmond, Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax
- Bike Norfolk
- Virginia Cycling Association
- New River Valley Bicycling Association
- Fairfax Alliance for Better Bicycling
- Active Prince William
- Peninsula Bicycling Association
- Abingdon Cycling Inc
- Tidewater Trails Alliance
- Bike Walk Hanover
- Downtown Norfolk
- SAW Youth Mountain Bike Club
- Sustainable Mobility for Arlington County
- 16+ Virginia-based businesses
- Over 240 individual signatories
(Want to be added to the list? let us know!)
And here’s another serious reminder to get those emails in and to share VBF’s landing page and social media posts! This literally can’t happen without you and yours weighing in to make biking safer and more enjoyable for all Virginians.
~BT
Have any questions or comments? Shoot me a note at Brantley dot tyndall at gmail dot com
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