Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF0957

Relating to transportation; prohibiting a preference for union contractors in
state and local building and construction contracts; redefining road or highway
as a corridor used primarily for the transportation of persons or goods and
defining highway purpose; specifying a minimum percentage of expenditures from
the trunk highway fund required to be spent for the construction and
reconstruction of trunk highways and prohibiting use of the fund to acquire new
trunk highway corridors or to expand existing corridors; establishing
transportation spending goals; requiring the commissioner of transportation
(DOT) to include in biennial budgets a plan developed by area transportation
partnerships of recommended expenditures from the general fund for trunk highway
and public transit purposes; modifying the definition of prevailing wage rate
for state projects purposes; requiring appropriations for the operations of the
state patrol to be from the general fund, excepting commercial motor vehicle
inspection and enforcement activities; modifying the allocation of fines and
forfeited bail money from traffic and motor vehicle law violations, requiring
crediting to the general fund; creating a temporary project delivery task force
to investigate and implement methods to accelerate the delivery of
transportation department projects, specifying membership requirements and
requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date (mk)