| 8 | | - | Sponsors: Representatives Chesser, Iler, Shepard, and McNeely (Primary Sponsors). |
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| 9 | | - | For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site. |
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| 10 | | - | Referred to: Transportation, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and |
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| 11 | | - | Operations of the House |
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| 12 | | - | April 2, 2025 |
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| 13 | | - | *H652 -v-1* |
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| 9 | + | Sponsors: Representative Chesser. |
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| 10 | + | Referred to: |
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| 11 | + | |
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| 12 | + | *DRH30291 -MW-2* |
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| 14 | 13 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1 |
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| 15 | 14 | | AN ACT TO MODIFY CALCULATION OF TRANSPORTATION GOODS UNIT PRICING 2 |
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| 16 | 15 | | COST. 3 |
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| 17 | 16 | | The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4 |
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| 18 | 17 | | SECTION 1. G.S. 136-18.05(b)(1a) reads as rewritten: 5 |
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| 19 | 18 | | "(1a) Efficiency. – The Department shall adopt procedures in all stages of the 6 |
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| 20 | 19 | | construction process to streamline project delivery, including consolidating 7 |
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| 21 | 20 | | environmental review processes, expediting multiagency reviews, 8 |
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| 22 | 21 | | accelerating right-of-way acquisitions, and pursuing design build and other 9 |
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| 23 | 22 | | processes to collapse project stages. By December 1, 2015, the Department 10 |
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| 24 | 23 | | shall establish a baseline unit pricing structure for transportation goods used 11 |
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| 25 | 24 | | in highway maintenance and construction projects and set annual targets for 12 |
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| 26 | 25 | | three years based on its unit pricing. In forming the baseline unit prices and 13 |
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| 27 | 26 | | future targets, the Department shall collect data from each Highway Division 14 |
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| 28 | 27 | | on its expenditures on transportation goods during the 2015-2016 fiscal year. 15 |
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| 29 | 28 | | based upon a rolling average of the three previous fiscal years. Beginning 16 |
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| 30 | 29 | | January 1, 2016, no Highway Division shall exceed a ten percent (10%) 17 |
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| 31 | 30 | | variance over a baseline unit price set for that year in accordance with this 18 |
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| 32 | 31 | | subdivision. The Department of Transportation shall institute annual tracking 19 |
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| 33 | 32 | | to monitor pricing variances. The ten percent (10%) maximum variance set 20 |
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| 34 | 33 | | under this subdivision is intended to account for regional differences requiring 21 |
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| 35 | 34 | | varying product mixes. If a Highway Division exceeds the unit pricing 22 |
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| 36 | 35 | | threshold, the Department shall submit a report to the Joint Legislative 23 |
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| 37 | 36 | | Transportation Oversight Committee, the Fiscal Research Division of the 24 |
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| 38 | 37 | | General Assembly, the chairs of the House of Representatives Appropriations 25 |
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| 39 | 38 | | Committee on Transportation, and the chairs of the Senate Appropriations 26 |
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| 40 | 39 | | Committee on the Department of Transportation no later than the fifteenth day 27 |
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| 41 | 40 | | of February following the end of the calendar year on why the variance 28 |
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| 42 | 41 | | occurred and what steps are being taken to bring the Highway Division back 29 |
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| 43 | 42 | | into compliance. In order to drive savings, unit pricing may be reduced 30 |
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| 44 | 43 | | annually as efficiencies are achieved." 31 |
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| 45 | 44 | | SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2025. 32 |
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