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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

SB 669

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Relating to: creating a transit capital assistance program, providing an exemption from emergency rule procedures, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Metropolitan transportation Transportation, department of — Administration

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the Department of Transportation (DOT) provides state aid

payments to local public bodies (eligible applicants) in urban areas served by mass

transit systems (urban mass transit systems) incurring a deficit to assist with their

operating expenses.

This bill requires DOT to establish and administer a transit capital assistance

program to assist transit systems eligible for operating aids with their capital needs.

Under the program, DOT must make grants to eligible applicants for the purpose of

supplementing the cost of capital expenditures for urban mass transit systems. DOT

must establish, by rule, criteria for evaluating applications and awarding grants,

but, under these rules, DOT must consider the capital needs of the applicant's urban

mass transit system as an important criteria. The bill provides funding for the

program, from the transportation fund, of $15,000,000 annually.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Harris (D) , Miller (D) , T. Cullen (D)

9 cosponsors

Berceau (D) , Genrich (D) , Hebl (D) , Hulsey (D) , Kahl (D) , Sargent (D) , Shankland (D) , Wachs (D) , Wright (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 10, 2014 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Miller, Harris and T. Cullen; cosponsored by Representatives Sargent, Hulsey, Genrich, Wright, Hebl, Berceau, Kahl, Shankland and Wachs

  2. Mar 10, 2014 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation, Public Safety, and Veterans and Military Affairs

  3. Apr 8, 2014 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1