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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6310
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 1775
Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
Introduced by:
REP. ARORA, 151st Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING A TRANSPARENT RANKING AND RATING
FOR TRANSPORTATION CAPITAL PROJECTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to (1) require the Secretary of 1
the Office of Policy and Management and the Commissioner of 2
Administrative Services, in consultation with experts, to create a 3
transparent and objective methodology to rank and rate transportation 4
capital projects estimated to cost more than a specified threshold; (2) 5
require such methodology to access each transportation capital project 6
by providing an economic value on a comparative basis, providing 7
utilization measures, including the level of subsidization, measuring the 8
social long-term value of the investment and measuring the return on 9
equity and to rank each such transportation capital project on a scale of 10
one to ten; and (3) require a nonpartisan body to apply such 11
methodology to each such transportation capital project. 12 Proposed Bill No. 6310
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Statement of Purpose:
To create a methodology to rank and rate transportation capital projects
and use the ranking to ensure transportation capital is allocated to the
most useful projects without political interference.