Bill Text: IN SB0382 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public-private agreements.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2010-03-25 - Effective 03/18/2010 [SB0382 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2010-SB0382-Introduced.html


Introduced Version






SENATE BILL No. 382

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 8-15-3-9; IC 8-15.5; IC 8-15.7; IC 8-23-7-22.

Synopsis: Illiana Expressway. For purposes of statutes concerning approval of the location of a tollway or the designation of a state highway as a tollway, permits the designation of the Illiana Expressway as a tollway (current law prohibits such a designation without legislative authorization). For purposes of the statutes governing public-private agreements by the Indiana finance authority or the department of transportation concerning toll roads or tollways, authorizes a public-private agreement for a project concerning the Illiana Expressway (current law prohibits such an agreement without legislative authorization) that would permit an operator to impose tolls for the operation of motor vehicles. Specifies that the common construction wage statute applies to a project for the Illiana Expressway.

Effective: July 1, 2010.





Charbonneau




    January 12, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Homeland Security, Transportation & Veterans Affairs.







Introduced

Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly (2010)


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SENATE BILL No. 382



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning transportation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 8-15-3-9; (10)IN0382.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 8-15-3-9, AS AMENDED BY P.L.47-2006, SECTION 23, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 9. (a) Subject to subsection (e), the governor must approve the location of any tollway.
    (b) The department may, in any combination, plan, design, develop, construct, reconstruct, maintain, repair, police, finance, and operate tollways, public improvements, and arterial streets and roads at those locations that the governor approves.
    (c) The department may, in any combination, plan, design, develop, construct, reconstruct, improve, finance, operate, repair, or maintain public improvements such as roads and streets, sewer lines, water lines, and other utilities if these improvements are:
        (1) adjacent or appurtenant to a tollway; or
        (2) necessary or desirable for the financing, construction, operation, or maintenance of a tollway.
    (d) The department may, in any combination, plan, design, develop, construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, repair, operate, or finance

the construction or reconstruction of an arterial highway or an arterial street that:
        (1) is adjacent to, appurtenant to, or interchanges with a tollway; or
        (2) intersects with a road or street that interchanges with a tollway.
    (e) Notwithstanding any other law, the governor, the department, or an operator may not carry out any of the following activities under this chapter unless the general assembly enacts a statute authorizing that activity:
        (1) Approve the location of a tollway, other than:
             (A) Interstate Highway 69 between Interstate Highway 64 and a city having a population of more than eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) but less than eleven thousand seven hundred forty (11,740); or
            (B) the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with Interstate Highway 55 in Illinois.

        (2) Carry out construction for Interstate Highway 69 in a township having a population of more than seventy-five thousand (75,000) and less than ninety-three thousand five hundred (93,500).
        (3) Impose tolls on motor vehicles for use of the part of an interstate highway that connects a consolidated city and a city having a population of more than eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) but less than eleven thousand seven hundred forty (11,740).

SOURCE: IC 8-15.5-1-2; (10)IN0382.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 8-15.5-1-2, AS ADDED BY P.L.47-2006, SECTION 39, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 2. (a) This article contains full and complete authority for public-private agreements between the authority and a private entity. Except as provided in this article, no law, procedure, proceeding, publication, notice, consent, approval, order, or act by the authority or any other officer, department, agency, or instrumentality of the state or any political subdivision is required for the authority to enter into a public-private agreement with a private entity under this article, or for a toll road project that is the subject of a public-private agreement to be constructed, acquired, maintained, repaired, operated, financed, transferred, or conveyed.
    (b) This subsection does not apply to a project for the construction of the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with Interstate Highway 55 in Illinois. Notwithstanding any other law,

after August 1, 2006, neither the authority nor the department may:
        (1) issue a request for proposals for; or
        (2) enter into;
a public-private agreement under this article that would authorize an operator to impose tolls for the operation of motor vehicles on all or part of a project, unless the general assembly adopts a statute authorizing the imposition of tolls.
    (c) Notwithstanding any other law, neither the authority nor an operator may carry out any of the following activities under this article unless the general assembly enacts a statute authorizing that activity:
        (1) Carrying out construction for Interstate Highway 69 in a township having a population of more than seventy-five thousand (75,000) and less than ninety-three thousand five hundred (93,500).
        (2) Imposing tolls on motor vehicles for use of the part of an interstate highway that connects a consolidated city and a city having a population of more than eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) but less than eleven thousand seven hundred forty (11,740).

SOURCE: IC 8-15.5-6-2; (10)IN0382.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. IC 8-15.5-6-2, AS ADDED BY P.L.47-2006, SECTION 39, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 2. (a) Unless otherwise provided by federal law or this section, the operator or any contractor or subcontractor of the operator engaged in the construction of a toll road project is not required to comply with IC 4-13.6 or IC 5-16 concerning state public works, IC 5-17 concerning purchases of materials and supplies, or other statutes concerning procedures for procurement of public works or personal property as a condition of being awarded and performing work on the project.
     (b) IC 5-16-7 concerning the common construction wage applies to the operator or any contractor or subcontractor of the operator engaged in a project for the construction of the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with Interstate Highway 55 in Illinois.
SOURCE: IC 8-15.7-1-5; (10)IN0382.1.4. -->     SECTION 4. IC 8-15.7-1-5, AS AMENDED BY P.L.203-2007, SECTION 5, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 5. (a) This article contains full and complete authority for agreements and leases with private entities to carry out the activities described in this article. Except as provided in this article, no procedure, proceeding, publication, notice, consent, approval, order, or act by the authority, the department, or any other state or local agency or official is required to enter into an agreement or lease, and no law to

the contrary affects, limits, or diminishes the authority for agreements and leases with private entities, except as provided by this article.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the department, the authority, or an operator may not carry out any of the following activities under this article unless the general assembly enacts a statute authorizing that activity:
        (1) Issuing a request for proposals for, or entering into, a public-private agreement concerning a project other than:
             (A) Interstate Highway 69 between Interstate Highway 465 and Interstate Highway 64; or
            (B) the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with Interstate Highway 55 in Illinois.

        (2) Carrying out construction for Interstate Highway 69 in a township having a population of more than seventy-five thousand (75,000) and less than ninety-three thousand five hundred (93,500).
        (3) Imposing user fees on motor vehicles for use of the part of an interstate highway that connects a consolidated city and a city having a population of more than eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) but less than eleven thousand seven hundred forty (11,740).
    (c) Notwithstanding subsection (b) or any other law, the department or the authority may enter into a public-private agreement concerning a project consisting of a passenger or freight railroad system described in IC 8-15.7-2-14(a)(4). Such an agreement is subject to review and appropriation by the general assembly. However, this subsection does not prohibit the department from:
        (1) conducting preliminary studies that the department considers necessary to determine the feasibility of such a project; or
        (2) issuing a request for qualifications or a request for proposals, or both, under IC 8-15.7-4 for such a project.

SOURCE: IC 8-15.7-6-2; (10)IN0382.1.5. -->     SECTION 5. IC 8-15.7-6-2, AS ADDED BY P.L.47-2006, SECTION 40, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 2. (a) Unless otherwise provided by federal law or this section, the operator or any contractor or subcontractor of the operator engaged in the construction of a project is not required to comply with IC 4-13.6 or IC 5-16 concerning state public works, IC 5-17 concerning purchases of materials and supplies, or other statutes concerning procedures for procurement of public works or personal property as a condition of being awarded and performing work on the project.
     (b) IC 5-16-7 concerning the common construction wage applies to the operator or any contractor or subcontractor of the operator engaged in a project for the construction of the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with Interstate Highway 55 in Illinois.
SOURCE: IC 8-23-7-22; (10)IN0382.1.6. -->     SECTION 6. IC 8-23-7-22, AS AMENDED BY P.L.47-2006, SECTION 41, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2010]: Sec. 22. (a) Subject to subsection (b), the department may, after issuing an order and receiving the governor's approval, determine that a state highway should become a tollway. After the order becomes effective, the department shall maintain and operate the tollway and levy and collect tolls as provided in IC 8-15-3 or enter into a public-private agreement with an operator with respect to the tollway under IC 8-15.7. Before issuing an order under this section, the department shall submit to the governor a plan to bring the tollway to the current design standards of the department for new state highways within a specified period. The specified period may not exceed five (5) years.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other law, the governor, the department, or an operator may not carry out any of the following activities under this section unless the general assembly enacts a statute authorizing that activity:
        (1) Determine that a highway, other than:
             (A) Interstate Highway 69 between Interstate Highway 64 and a city having a population of more than eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) but less than eleven thousand seven hundred forty (11,740); or
            (B) the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with Interstate Highway 55 in Illinois;

        should become a tollway.
        (2) Carry out construction for Interstate Highway 69 in a township having a population of more than seventy-five thousand (75,000) and less than ninety-three thousand five hundred (93,500).
        (3) Impose tolls on motor vehicles for use of the part of an interstate highway that connects a consolidated city and a city having a population of more than eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) but less than eleven thousand seven hundred forty (11,740).

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