| HB 0202 |
Neutral | Value Engineering Studies |
Epps, Bubber 144th |
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7/1/2013 |
Effective Date |
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| This legislation requires the Department of Transportation to perform a value engineering study on any project over $50 million except for design-build projects. Currently, a value engineering study is required on all projects over $10 million.
This legislation also changes the total expenditures from the State Transportation Fund to exclude the following from budgeting by the department: funds for projects earmarked by Congress, funds for projects on the Interstate System, and funds for projects on state designated freight corridor
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| HB 0264 |
Neutral | MARTA Act of 1965 |
Jacobs, Mike 80th |
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6/1/2014 |
Effective Date |
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| HB 0265 |
Neutral | MARTA Tax Restriction Suspension |
Jacobs, Mike 80th |
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6/1/2014 |
Effective Date |
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TRANS |
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| This bill repeals Code Sections 32-9-13 & 32-9-14 relating to restrictions on use of MARTA proceeds. It becomes effective only if a companion bill reconstituting the MARTA board is enacted at the 2013 session. |
| HB 0384 |
Neutral | Motorized Cart Signage Clarification |
Roberts, Jay 155th |
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7/1/2013 |
House - Effective Date |
Trans |
TRANS |
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| This legislation requires counties that allow the use of motorized carts on public streets to post signs that are at least 24 inches by 30 inches on every state highway that intersects with the county's and cities' boundaries to warn other drivers that motorized carts are permitted on public roads. Any ordinance by the county regulating motorized carts will not be effective until the signs are posted. |
| HB 0486 |
Neutral | Commercial Wrecker Emergency Tow Permits |
Roberts, Jay 155th |
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1/13/2014 |
Senate - Senate Recommitted |
Trans |
TRANS |
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| This legislation increases the weight limit allowed for commercial wrecker emergency tow permits. |
| HB 0494 |
Neutral | Safety Markers on Utility Lines Near Private Airstrips |
Welch, Andrew 110th |
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4/29/2014 |
House Date Signed by Governor |
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TRANS |
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| This legislation requires the installation of safety markers on utility lines to provide adequate visual warning on private airstrips. |
| HB 0774 |
Support | Increases Threshold For Road Construction Projects |
Sam Watson |
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7/1/2014 |
Effective Date |
Trans |
TRANS |
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| This legislation increases the threshold before which road construction contracts must be let out by bid from $20,000 to $200,000. This legislation requires at least two estimates for road construction projects between $20,000 and $200,000. The bill does not pose a requirement for the formality or method in which the estimates are delivered, neither does it pose a requirement for the qualification of the contractor providing the estimate. |
| HB 0775 |
Neutral | Transportation; Authorize Creation of Transit Authority |
John Carson |
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3/13/2014 |
Senate Read Second Time |
Trans |
TRANS |
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| This legislation removes the population requirement from the definition of "metropolitan areas." This would allow the creation of a transit authority to build, own and operate a mass rapid transit system in a metropolitan area with a population greater than 43,617. |
| HB 0960 |
Neutral | Allow Surface Transportation Projects in Urban Redevelopment Areas |
Jay Roberts |
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3/20/2014 |
Senate Passed/Adopted By Substitute |
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TRANS |
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| This legislation allows surface transportation projects to be performed in urban redevelopment areas. This language was also amended to include language from SB 374 that changes "slum" to "pockets of blight" in the Urban Redevelopment Law as well as provide for a process of bond validation. |
| HR 1573 |
Support | Joint Study Committee on Transportation Infrastructure Funding |
Jay Roberts |
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4/22/2014 |
House Date Signed by Governor |
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TRANS |
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This legislation creates the Joint Study Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Funding for the purposes of studying options for transportation funding. It further provides that the ACCG Executive Director will serve on the committee. |
| SB 0073 |
Neutral | Removes T-SPLOST Match Penalty |
Albers, John 56th |
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1/30/2013 |
Senate - Senate Read and Referred |
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| This legislation reduces the 30 percent match requirement for regions that did not pass TSPLOST to 10 percent. |
| SB 0090 |
Negotiating | Reporting of Public-Private Partnership Alternatives for Transit |
Gooch, Steve 51st |
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2/1/2013 |
Senate - Senate Read and Referred |
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| This legislation requires any state, regional or local authority that provides public mass transportation services to develop a report of potential public-private partnership alternatives to public mass transportation services.
For ACCG's Sectional Summary of SB 90, please click here. |
| SB 0131 |
Neutral | Funding Allocation Changes by GDOT for Public Roads |
Gooch, Steve 51st |
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2/11/2013 |
Senate - Senate Read and Referred |
- | TRANS |
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| This legislation changes the funding allocation for public roads. |
| SB 0218 |
Neutral | Emergency Tow Permits |
Gooch, Steve 51st |
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7/1/2013 |
Senate - Effective Date |
Trans |
TRANS |
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| This legislation increases the weight limit for annual commercial wrecker emergency tow permits. |
| SB 0255 |
Support | Partnership for Public Facilities and Infrastructure Act |
Hill, Hunter 6th |
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3/5/2014 |
House Committee Favorably Reported By Substitute |
GAff |
TRANS |
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| This legislation provides an additional tool for the funding, construction and operation of capital improvements for state and local governments. For a more detailed summary click here. |
| SB 0348 |
Negotiating | Provide For Attorney's Fees and Trial Expenses in Condemnation Proceedings |
Joshua McKoon |
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2/4/2014 |
Senate Read and Referred |
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| This legislation requires the payment of investigative fees, attorneys' fees, and other costs incurred in a declaration of taking filed on a road project. |
| SR 0735 |
Neutral | Metro Atlanta Transit Authorities- Establish Joint Website |
Beach, Brandon 21st |
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3/10/2014 |
House Committee Favorably Reported |
SP&CA |
TRANS |
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| This legislation encourages the metro Atlanta transit authorities to develop a joint website and mobile app to make it easier for riders to plan routes between the different authorities. This is the recommendation that came from the transit governance study committee in the off session. |
| SR 1064 |
Support | Joint Study Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure |
Steve Gooch |
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3/3/2014 |
Senate Read and Referred |
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| This legislation creates the Joint Study Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Funding.
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