Summary of HB08-1312

Short Title: Transportation Investment Efficiency
Sponsors: LEVY / GORDON

Establishes goals of the transportation planning process. Requires the regional transportation process to provide decision makers, affected stakeholders, and the public with specified analyses and information prior to the proposal of a revised plan for comment and throughout the transportation planning process. Requires a regional transportation plan, which each regional planning commission must adopt, to provide for the most cost-effective investment of available resources that will achieve the greatest progress toward the newly established goals of the transportation planning process and comply with other specified requirements. Specifies deadlines for the adoption of regional transportation plans that comply with the new requirements of the act and updates of the plans. Specifies resource-, impact-, and progress-related information to be included in plan updates. Specifies requirements for the preparation of the statewide transportation plan by the transportation commission (commission) including requirements for the integration and consolidation of regional transportation plans into the statewide transportation plan. Specifies limited circumstances in which the commission may decline to incorporate priorities contained in a regional transportation plan into the statewide transportation plan. Requires the commission to promulgate rules to govern specified elements of the transportation planning process. Prohibits funding of transportation projects that increase highway capacity unless regional and statewide transportation plans and a corridor development plan that govern the area where the project is located have been adopted. Specifies the manner of adoption of and substantive requirements regarding corridor development plans. Requires the commission to allocate funding for transportation projects that add new capacity or increase mobility based on demonstrated progress toward achievement of the goals of the transportation planning process. Makes legislative findings and declarations. Defines terms.


Status
02/01/2008 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy
02/28/2008 House Committee on Transportation & Energy Witness Testimony and/or Committee Discussion Only
03/13/2008 House Committee on Transportation & Energy Postpone Indefinitely

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