Fifty-sixth Legislature           Transportation, Technology and Missing Children

Second Regular Session                                                  S.B. 1184

 

PROPOSED

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1184

(Reference to printed bill)

 


Page 1, between lines 1 and 2, insert:

"Section 1. Title 28, chapter 2, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 28-340, to read:

START_STATUTE28-340. Department prohibitions; public resources

A. Notwithstanding any other law, the department may not spend public resources to do either of the following:

1. Reduce existing lane miles on a highway or state highway.

2. build or maintain FACILITIES that charge motor vehicles except that the department may fund the installation of charging equipment on government-owned property for the charging of government-owned motor vehicles.

B. THe department may not adopt a target or consider a target for adoption relating to the number of privately owned motor vehicles that may need charging in this state in the future.END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Section 28-501, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-501. Definitions

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Accessibility" means with consideration for individuals who have physical disabilities or who are elderly.

2. "Air quality" means the standards required by 42 united states code sections 7401 through 7438.

3. "Congestion reduction" means alleviating recurrent travel impediments that diminish free flow speeds.

4. "Connectivity" means numerous direct and indirect linkages in the system that maximize the flow of passenger and freight travel.

5. "Cost-effectiveness" means the gains in mobility relative to the financial subsidization to plan, construct, operate and maintain a project or service.

6. "Division" means the transportation planning division established by section 28-332, subsection C.

7. "Economic benefits" means all of the net gains that can be quantified in monetary terms.

8. "Environmental impacts" means changes to the natural and constructed environment resulting from a project.

9. "Integration" means a seamless combination of different transportation modes that preserves the capacity of the highway system and major arterial roadways.

10. "Mobility" means the ability to move freely, easily and efficiently.

11. "Operational efficiency" means optimizing resource allocation for maximizing the performance criteria relative to cost-effectiveness.

12. "Project readiness" means the fewest impediments present to implement a project.

13. "safety improvements" means projects that are proven to reduce the number of fatalities or serious injuries based on an analysis of crash data.

14. "System preservation" means the recurring maintenance of the federal highway system. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3. Section 28-505, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-505. Transportation system performance factors; weights; motor vehicle travel mile reduction plan prohibition

A. The division shall develop for presentation to the board standard transportation system performance factors that at least include all of the following variables:

1. System preservation.

2. Congestion relief reduction.

3. Accessibility.

4. Integration and Connectivity with other modes.

5. Economic benefits.

6. Safety improvements.

7. Air quality and other environmental impacts.

8. Cost-effectiveness of a project or service.

9. Operational efficiency.

10. Project readiness.

11. Mobility.

12. Integration.

B. The division shall:

1. Develop methods to measure each performance factor quantitatively using any relevant and available data to the extent practicable.

2. Consider technologies, new innovations, data and market solutions to optimize the delivery of performance factors.

3. Develop for presentation to the board transportation system Use the following performance factor weights for highway projects:

(a) Congestion reduction, forty percent.

(b) Increase in mobility, forty percent.

(c) Safety improvements that reduce the number of fatalities on streets and highways in the region, twenty percent.

C. The performance factors and weights established pursuant to this section shall be used by the department and the board to:

1. Select projects and services in the five year transportation facilities construction program pursuant to chapter 20, article 3 of this title and the long-range statewide transportation plan pursuant to section 28-307.

2. Allocate state and federal financial resources among the department's major program categories.

D. The division may not consider or adopt a motor vehicle travel mile reduction plan. END_STATUTE

Sec. 4. Section 28-733, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-733. Restrictions on use of controlled access highway

A. The director may, and local authorities by ordinance may, prohibit The use of any part of a controlled access highway under their respective jurisdictions by pedestrians, bicycles or other nonmotorized traffic or by any person operating a motor driven cycle is prohibited.

B. The director department or the a local authority adopting the prohibition prescribed in subsection A with a controlled access highway under its jurisdiction shall erect and maintain official signs displaying the restrictions on the applicable controlled access highway. When the signs are erected, a person shall not disobey the restrictions stated on the signs." END_STATUTE

Renumber to conform

Page 1, line 21, strike "1" insert "5"; strike "2" insert "6"

Amend title to conform


DAVID C. FARNSWORTH

 

1184FARNSWORTH.docx

02/07/2024

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