05 LC 34
0403S
The
House Committee on Transportation offers the following substitute to SB
4:
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 change the portion to be divided equally; to remove a
provision for expenditures incidental to economic development purposes; to
provide for related matters; 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)(1)
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,
projects that
have been earmarked by a member of Congress in excess of appropriated funds or
where the Governor has designated the Department of Transportation as the
designated recipient for Federal Transit Administration
grants, shall be budgeted by the
department over
each
five-year period commencing July 1, 1999, and quinquennially
thereafter
two successive
budgeting periods every decade.
(2)
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; provided, however, if the congressional districts have been redrawn
prior to a new decennial census, but after the approval of an existing map based
on the last decennial census, the budgeting period shall include two successive
budgeting periods. The first budgeting period shall end upon approval of the new
redistricting and the second budgeting period shall commence from the date such
redrawn congressional districts have been approved and shall continue until the
next budgeting period following the next redistricting of congressional
districts. The department shall budget such
expenditures such that at the end of such
budgeting
period funding obligations equivalent to at least
85
80
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 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.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
repealed.