05 LC 21
8332
House
Bill 737
By:
Representatives Graves of the
12th,
Smith of the
129th,
Rogers of the
26th,
Channell of the
116th,
Fleming of the
117th,
and others
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 32-5-30 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to allocation of state and federal funds, so as to remove certain projects
exempt from the allocation provisions of said Code section; to provide for
budgeting periods; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other
purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 32-5-30 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
allocation of state and federal funds, is amended by striking in its entirety
subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof 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 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, and quinquennially
thereafter
two successive
budgeting periods every decade. The first budgeting period shall commence
immediately following redistricting of congressional districts and shall be for
a duration of five years. The second budgeting period shall continue until the
beginning of the budgeting period following the next redistricting of
congressional districts after each decennial census. The department shall budget
such expenditures such that at the end of
such
budgeting
period funding obligations equivalent to at least
85
70
percent of such total for such
budgeting
period shall have been divided equally among the congressional districts in this
state, as those districts existed at the commencement of such
budgeting
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
budgeting
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
budgeting
period which are more than 20 percent greater than that received by any other
such congressional district pursuant to this subsection for such
budgeting
period."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.