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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 717
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
(TRA)
AN ACT CONCERNING TRANSPORTATION PROJE CT
PRIORITIZATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) Not later than December 1
1, 2019, and annually thereafter, the Commissioner of Transportation 2
shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a of the general statutes, to 3
the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having 4
cognizance of matters relating to transportation, the status of 5
significant transportation projects in any phase of construction, design 6
or planning. This report shall be referred to as the "Transportation 7
Project Priority Report". 8
(b) The Transportation Project Priority Report shall: (1) Identify 9
twenty transportation projects that are a priority to the Department of 10
Transportation and for each identified transportation project, include 11
(A) whether such project is scheduled to be substantially complete by 12
the originally anticipated completion date, (B) whether the cost of such 13
project is under the budgeted amount and if not, identify the amount 14
that exceeds the budgeted amount and explain why such project 15
exceeded the budgeted amount, and (C) whether such project was 16
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subject to a change order and if so, identify the cost of the change order 17
and explain the reason for the change order; (2) identify all 18
transportation projects that are at the stage where construction can 19
begin but such transportation projects are not funded; (3) identify all 20
transportation projects for which bonds have been authorized but 21
construction has not started and for each such transportation project, 22
identify (A) the date such bonds were authorized by the General 23
Assembly, (B) the reasons construction has not started, and (C) the 24
date construction is anticipated to start; and (4) identify all 25
transportation projects that are anticipated to become a priority based 26
on use, the demands of traffic and the integrity of the mode of 27
transportation. 28
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Commissioner of Transportation to submit an annual
report that prioritizes transportation projects.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: SEN. HWANG, 28th Dist.
S.B. 717