LRB-1487/P3
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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Aslesen, BB0494 - Enumeration of I 94 East West
For 2021-2023 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Transportation
Highways
Under current law, DOT may not encumber or expend any monies for construction of a southeast Wisconsin freeway megaproject unless the project is enumerated by the legislature.
This bill enumerates as a southeast Wisconsin freeway megaproject the “I 94 east-west corridor project,” which is defined to mean “all freeways, including related interchange ramps, roadways, and shoulders, encompassing I 94 in Milwaukee County from 70th Street to 16th Street, and all adjacent frontage roads and collector road systems.” The bill authorizes DOT to contract up to $40,000,000 in public debt for the project.
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. 20.866 (2) (uup) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
20.866 (2) (uup) 1. From the capital improvement fund, a sum sufficient for the department of transportation to fund the Marquette interchange reconstruction project under s. 84.014, as provided under s. 84.555, the reconstruction of the I 94 north-south corridor and the zoo interchange, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m), the reconstruction of the I 94 east-west corridor, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m), southeast Wisconsin freeway megaprojects under s. 84.0145, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m), and high-cost state highway bridge projects under s. 84.017, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m). The state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $704,750,000 for these purposes. In addition, the state may contract public debt in an amount not to exceed $107,000,000 for the reconstruction of the Zoo interchange and I 94 north-south corridor, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m), as southeast Wisconsin freeway megaprojects under s. 84.0145, in an amount not to exceed $216,800,000 for high-cost state highway bridge projects under s. 84.017, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m), and in an amount not to exceed $300,000,000 for southeast Wisconsin freeway megaprojects under s. 84.0145, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m), and in an amount not to exceed $95,000,000 for the reconstruction of the Zoo interchange, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m), as a southeast Wisconsin freeway megaproject under s. 84.0145, and in an amount not to exceed $40,000,000 for the reconstruction of the I 94 east-west corridor, as provided under s. 84.555 (1m), as a southeast Wisconsin freeway megaproject under s. 84.0145.
Section
2. 84.014 (5m) (ag) 1. of the statutes is renumbered 84.014 (5m) (ag) 1m.
Section
3. 84.014 (5m) (ag) 1e. of the statutes is created to read:
84.014 (5m) (ag) 1e. “I 94 east-west corridor” means all freeways, including related interchange ramps, roadways, and shoulders, encompassing I 94 in Milwaukee County from 70th Street to 16th Street, and all adjacent frontage roads and collector road systems.
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4. 84.0145 (1) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 84.0145 (1) (am) and amended to read:
84.0145 (1) (am) “I 94 north-south corridor" has the meaning given in s. 84.014 (5m) (ag) 1. 1m.
Section 5
. 84.0145 (1) (ae) of the statutes is created to read:
84.0145 (1) (ae) “I 94 east-west corridor project" has the meaning given in s. 84.014 (5m) (ag) 1e.
Section 6
. 84.0145 (3) (b) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
84.0145 (3) (b) 3. The I 94 east-west corridor project.
Section
7. 84.555 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
84.555 (1m) Notwithstanding sub. (1) and ss. 84.51 and 84.59, the proceeds of general obligation bonds issued under s. 20.866 (2) (uum) are allocated for expenditure obligations under s. 84.95 and s. 84.014, the proceeds of general obligation bonds issued under s. 20.866 (2) (uup) and (uuv) may be used to fund expenditure obligations for the Marquette interchange reconstruction project under s. 84.014, for the reconstruction of the I 94 north-south corridor, as defined in s. 84.014 (5m) (ag) 1. 1m., for the reconstruction of the Zoo interchange, as defined in s. 84.014 (5m) (ag) 2., for the reconstruction of the I 94 east-west corridor, as defined in s. 84.014 (5m) (ag) 1e., for southeast Wisconsin freeway megaprojects under s. 84.0145, and for high-cost state highway bridge projects under s. 84.017, and the proceeds of general obligation bonds issued under s. 20.866 (2) (uur)
and (uuv) may be used to fund expenditure obligations for southeast Wisconsin freeway megaprojects under s. 84.0145.
****Note: This is reconciled s. 84.555 (1m). This Section has been affected by drafts with the following LRB numbers: -1487/P2 and -1951/P1.
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