LRB-1263/P2
EVM:cmh&wlj:rs
2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Mette, BB0451 - Eliminate community sensitive design
For 2015-2017 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
transportation
Highways
Under current law, with certain exceptions, DOT may not expend more than 1.5 percent of the project costs of any highway improvement project on elements DOT determines are primarily related to the aesthetic preferences of communities adjacent to the project (community sensitive solutions). Under this bill, DOT may not expend any state funds for community sensitive solutions.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 85.0205 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
85.0205 (1m) The department may not expend state moneys on elements of a highway improvement project that the department determines are primarily related to the aesthetic preferences of communities adjacent to the project, generally known as community sensitive solutions.
Section 9345.
Initial applicability; Transportation.
(1) Community sensitive solutions. The treatment of section 85.0205 (1m) of the statutes first applies to a project for which an agreement between the state and a local government related to community sensitive solutions has not been entered into on the effective date of this subsection.
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