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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

AB 796

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Relating to: requiring bicycle and pedestrian facilities in highway projects and granting rule-making authority. (FE)

Bicycle Bird Road — Construction and repair Street Transportation department of — Roads

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, 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

This bill requires the Department of Transportation to ensure, with exceptions,

that bikeways and pedestrian ways are established in all new highway construction

and reconstruction projects funded from state or federal funds (a policy commonly

known as “complete streets”).

Under current law, DOT generally must give due consideration to establishing

bikeways and pedestrian ways in all new highway construction and reconstruction

projects funded from state or federal funds. However, DOT may not establish a

bikeway or pedestrian way as part of a highway project if bicyclists or pedestrians

are prohibited from using the highway. DOT is also prohibited from establishing a

bikeway or pedestrian way as part of a state-funded project unless the governing

body of each municipality in which a portion of the project is located authorizes the

creation of the bikeway or pedestrian way.

Under the bill, DOT must ensure that bikeways and pedestrian ways are

established in all new highway construction and reconstruction projects funded from

state or federal funds. DOT is required to promulgate rules identifying exceptions

to this requirement, but the exceptions may only be based on one of several specified

criteria.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Anderson (D) , Andraca (D) , B. Meyers (D) , Brostoff (D) , Cabrera (D) , Conley (D) , Considine (D) , Emerson (D) , Goyke (D) , Hebl (D) , Hong (D) , Milroy (D) , Neubauer (D) , Ohnstad (D) , Pope (D) , S. Rodriguez (D) , Shelton (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Vining (D) , Vruwink (D)

9 cosponsors

Agard (D) , Carpenter (D) , Erpenbach (D) , Johnson (D) , L. Taylor (D) , Larson (D) , Ringhand (D) , Roys (D) , Smith (D)

Full history

  1. Jan 4, 2022 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Shelton, Snodgrass, Goyke, Anderson, Andraca, Brostoff, Cabrera, Conley, Considine, Emerson, Hebl, Hong, B. Meyers, Milroy, Neubauer, Ohnstad, Pope, S. Rodriguez, Sinicki, Spreitzer, Stubbs, Subeck, Vining and Vruwink; cosponsored by Senators Agard, Carpenter, Larson, Ringhand, Johnson, Erpenbach, Roys, L. Taylor and Smith

  2. Jan 4, 2022 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Transportation

  3. Feb 10, 2022 · Assembly

    Fiscal estimate received

  4. Mar 15, 2022 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1