01/30/2012
HARRISBURG – Legislation designed to bring Pennsylvania Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) law in line with federal changes was passed unanimously by the House recently, Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona), majority chairman of the House Transportation Committee said today.
01/06/2012
HARRISBURG -- State Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona) announced today that he is currently seeking a worthy student from the 79th Legislative District to participate in the Valley Forge Military College Legislative Appointment Initiative.
12/08/2011
HARRISBURG – The House Transportation Committee voted Wednesday to send legislation to the House floor extending the current Philadelphia Parking Authority Automated Red Light Camera pilot program until December 2016, said Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona), chairman of the committee. The program, which began in 2005, is scheduled to sunset at the end of this year. The vote was 23-1.
11/15/2011
Rep Rick Geist (R-Altoona), majority chairman of the House Transportation Committee, today said his public-private partnership (P3) legislation contained in House Bill 3 was approved by the committee and sent to the floor of the House.
11/09/2011
HARRISBURG – Calling it a victory for improved safety on Pennsylvania highways and streets, Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona), majority chairman of the House Transportation Committee, today praised the signing of legislation designed to ban texting while driving and making it a primary offense.
09/28/2011
HARRISBURG – Following the conclusion of a two-day joint House and Senate Transportation Committee hearing, Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said today that there must be no more hesitation on tackling the problems that exist in Pennsylvania’s infrastructure.
05/16/2011
The House recently passed several bills dealing with driver, motorcycle and bicycle safety issues which are part of an overall effort to make Pennsylvania highways and streets safer, Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona), chairman of the House Transportation Committee, said today.
04/28/2011
Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona), chairman of the House Transportation Committee was presented with the Advocate of the Year award this week by the Pennsylvania Highway Information Association (PHIA) during the group’s Transportation Conference and Annual Meeting in Harrisburg.
04/20/2011
The House Transportation Committee today heard testimony on House Bill 896 dealing with adding additional penalties to the careless driving section of state law, said the committee chairman, Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona).
03/03/2011
The House Transportation Committee today approved legislation sponsored by the committee’s majority chairman, Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona), which would enable Pennsylvania to enter into transportation-specific public-private partnerships as a tool to help the Commonwealth meet its growing transportation infrastructure needs.
01/11/2011
Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona) today announced he is serving a third term as chairman of the House Committee on Committees, this time as majority chairman. This group is in the process of assigning individual members to the various committees in the House.
01/11/2011
Here in the Commonwealth, and all across the nation, we are coming to grips with the simple fact that our infrastructure is old, overstressed and falling apart. In Pennsylvania, our highway bridges are 50 years old on average. With 25,000 state-owned bridges, Pennsylvania has the third largest number of bridges in the nation, but we lead the nation with nearly 6,000 bridges classified as “structurally deficient” by the U.S. Department of Transportation. That doesn’t even begin to count the multitude of deficient locally owned bridges that county and municipal governments must maintain.
12/17/2010
State Representative Rick Geist (R-Altoona), presumed incoming majority chairman of the House Transportation Committee, was honored Thursday night by the Philadelphia Chapter of Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), which presented him with its Philadelphia Award at the organization’s annual awards dinner in downtown Philadelphia.
11/18/2010
Speaking today to a convention of road construction professionals and PennDOT executives, state Representative Rick Geist (R-Altoona), who in January is expected to resume his position as majority chairman of the House Transportation Committee, strongly encouraged Gov.-elect Tom Corbett to make the critical issue of sufficiently funding Pennsylvania’s transportation infrastructure a top priority in his new administration.
10/27/2010
Rep. Rick Geist (R-Altoona) announced today that Pennsylvania’s Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) will begin accepting applications for cash grants Nov. 1. Crisis grants will be available on Jan. 3, 2011.