05 LC 21
8007
House
Bill 16
By:
Representatives Davis of the
109th,
Lunsford of the
110th,
May of the
111th,
Horne of the
71st,
and Stephens of the
164th
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Article 3 of Chapter 5 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to the allocation of funds for public roads, so as to change
the provisions regarding the balancing of federal and state funds; to provide an
effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Article
3 of Chapter 5 of Title 32 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to the allocation of funds for public roads, is amended by striking subsection
(a) of Code Section 32-5-30, relating to allocation of state and federal funds,
and inserting in its place the following:
"(a)
The total of expenditures from the State Public Transportation Fund under
paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) of Code Section 32-5-21 plus expenditures of
federal funds appropriated to the department, not including any state or federal
funds specifically designated for maintenance and
operations,;
any project undertaken for purposes of providing for the planning, surveying,
constructing, paving, and improving of the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of
Interstate and Defense Highways within the
state; any project undertaken for purposes
of the Developmental Highway System provided by Code Section
32-4-22,;
or any project of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, Georgia Ports
Authority, or Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, shall be budgeted by
the department over each five-year period commencing July 1,
1999
2005,
and quinquennially thereafter such that at the end of such period funding
obligations equivalent to at least
85
75
percent of such total for such period shall have been divided equally among the
congressional districts in this state, as those districts existed at the
commencement of such period, for public road and other public transportation
purposes in such districts; with the remainder of such total divided among such
congressional districts such that 5 percent of such total for such period shall
have been obligated for public road projects incidental to economic development
purposes anywhere in this state, and no such congressional district shall have
received funding obligations pursuant to this subsection for such period which
are more than 20 percent greater than that received by any other such
congressional district pursuant to this subsection for such
period."
SECTION
2.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2005.
SECTION
3.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.