AB 562

This bill limits the state's authority to incur expenses and expend moneys for

a rail fixed guideway transportation system in the city of Milwaukee.

Under current law, a "rail fixed guideway transportation system" is a public

transportation system being designed, engineered, constructed, or operated that is

intended to operate upon a fixed guideway and that is not subject to regulation by

the Federal Railroad Administration. Under current law, a county containing a first

class city, currently only Milwaukee County, may not incur any expenses relating to

the operation of a rail fixed guideway transportation system in the first class city,

currently only the city of Milwaukee, unless the expense incurred will be fully

reimbursed by the first class city. Under this bill, the state and it's agencies are also

prohibited from incurring these expenses.

This bill also removes the enumeration of any project resulting from the

Milwaukee Downtown Transit Connector Study of the Wisconsin Center District

from the list of major transit capital improvement projects eligible for construction

and specifies that money provided for urban mass transit operating assistance

program aids may not be used for any purpose relating to the operation of a rail fixed

guideway transportation system in a first class city.