05 LC 21
7983
Senate
Bill 4
By:
Senators Seabaugh of the 28th, Williams of the 19th, Stephens of the 27th,
Hamrick of the 30th, Hill of the 32nd 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 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 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.