05 LC 34
0225
House
Bill 723
By:
Representatives Sheldon of the
105th,
Jones of the
46th,
May of the
111th,
Mumford of the
95th,
Lindsey of the
54th,
and others
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 state and federal funds for public
roads, so as to exempt Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program
projects from balancing by congressional district; 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 state and federal funds for public roads, is amended by
striking in its entirety 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 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,
or any project
of the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Improvement
Program, shall be budgeted by the
department over each five-year period commencing July 1, 1999, and
quinquennially thereafter such that at the end of such period funding
obligations equivalent to at least 85 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.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.