GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
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HOUSE BILL 652
Short Title: Transportation Goods Unit Pricing Cost. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Chesser, Iler, Shepard, and McNeely (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Transportation, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and
Operations of the House
April 2, 2025
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO MODIFY CALCULATION OF TRANSPOR TATION GOODS UNIT PRICING 2
COST. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 136-18.05(b)(1a) reads as rewritten: 5
"(1a) Efficiency. – The Department shall adopt procedures in all stages of the 6
construction process to streamline project delivery, including consolidating 7
environmental review processes, expediting multiagency reviews, 8
accelerating right-of-way acquisitions, and pursuing design build and other 9
processes to collapse project stages. By December 1, 2015, the Department 10
shall establish a baseline unit pricing structure for transportation goods used 11
in highway maintenance and construction projects and set annual targets for 12
three years based on its unit pricing. In forming the baseline unit prices and 13
future targets, the Department shall collect data from each Highway Division 14
on its expenditures on transportation goods during the 2015-2016 fiscal year. 15
based upon a rolling average of the three previous fiscal years. Beginning 16
January 1, 2016, no Highway Division shall exceed a ten percent (10%) 17
variance over a baseline unit price set for that year in accordance with this 18
subdivision. The Department of Transportation shall institute annual tracking 19
to monitor pricing variances. The ten percent (10%) maximum variance set 20
under this subdivision is intended to account for regional differences requiring 21
varying product mixes. If a Highway Division exceeds the unit pricing 22
threshold, the Department shall submit a report to the Joint Legislative 23
Transportation Oversight Committee, the Fiscal Research Division of the 24
General Assembly, the chairs of the House of Representatives Appropriations 25
Committee on Transportation, and the chairs of the Senate Appropriations 26
Committee on the Department of Transportation no later than the fifteenth day 27
of February following the end of the calendar year on why the variance 28
occurred and what steps are being taken to bring the Highway Division back 29
into compliance. In order to drive savings, unit pricing may be reduced 30
annually as efficiencies are achieved." 31
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 32