Saturday, November 22, 2008
The General Assembly is not in session.

Tracking Virginia’s General Assembly
since 2007.

Search 2008 Bills:

SB1423: Mobile work camps; establishes standards therefor provided by railroad company for employees.

Chief Patron

Sen. Louise Lucas (D-18)

Louise Lucas (D-18)
Served: 1992–

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Status

Bill is Dead
View Entire History

Summary

Mobile camps for railroad employees.  Establishes standards for a mobile camp provided by a railroad company for maintenance of way employees. The Board of Health is required to adopt regulations concerning mobile camps.

  View Full Text »

Comments

Waldo Jaquith writes:

This is actually kind of interesting. I'd never heard of such a thing as a mobile camp for railroad employees. It seems that railroad maintenance crews, who just follow the tracks along fixing problems as they find them, are often housed each night by the railroad in terrible circumstances -- no heat, running water, beds, etc. This bill would prevent that.

Turns out that both Illinois and Indiana have considered similar bills recently, though to what end I don't know.

Poll Results

No Richmond Sunlight visitors voted on this bill while voting was open.

?

Tags

Separate each tag with a space: tax highway vdot. Multiple word tags must be enclosed within quotes: “capital murder”.

Bill Text

Related Bills

  • HB1746
    Introduced: December 27, 2006
    Status: signed by governor
    : Railroad corridors; Dept. of Rail & Public Transportation to update inventory of those abandoned.
  • HB2164
    Introduced: January 09, 2007
    Status: assigned to subcommittee
    : TransDominion Express Commission; created.
  • HB2234
    Introduced: January 09, 2007
    Status: assigned to subcommittee
    : Rail Enhancement Fund; creation of a five-year plan.