Bill Text: IN SB0473 | 2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Various transportation issues.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2011-05-18 - SECTIONS 16 through 21 effective 07/01/2011 [SB0473 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2011-SB0473-Amended.html
Citations Affected: IC 8-15; IC 8-15.5; IC 8-15.7; IC 8-23; IC 9-18;
IC 9-21.
Synopsis: Various transportation issues. Permits, without legislative
recognition, the location of certain tollways, converting part of I-69 to
a tollway, issuing requests for proposals, and entering into a
public-private agreement for certain highway projects until July 1,
2015. Restores the need for legislative recognition as of July 1, 2015.
Requires the budget committee to meet within 90 days and conduct a
review of any project that includes tolls. Retains provisions requiring
legislative recognition for certain projects concerning the construction
of Interstate Highway 69 and the designation of a toll road on a part of
an interstate highway south of Indianapolis. Provides that the owner of
a motor vehicle that passes through a toll collection facility without
payment of the proper toll commits a moving violation, a Class C
infraction. Requires the Indiana department of transportation to
establish a procedure to notify the BMV of unpaid fines for these
moving violations. Requires the BMV to remit the amount of any
moving violation fines paid to the BMV to the entity that imposed the
fines. Authorizes the bureau of motor vehicles (BMV) to withhold the
registration of a vehicle used in the commission of a violation related
to a tollway until the owner pays any applicable fines and fees.
Requires the Indiana department of transportation or Indiana finance
authority to adopt rules to establish deadlines to issue citations for, and
payment of fines imposed for, violations related to a tollway.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
January 13, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Homeland Security,
Transportation & Veterans Affairs.
January 31, 2011, pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b), reassigned to Committee on
Appropriations.
February 17, 2011, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
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A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning
transportation.
(1) an express highway, limited access facility, superhighway, bridge, tunnel, or motor way, including express lanes and managed lanes, constructed under this chapter or IC 8-15.7 or, subject to section 10 of this chapter, converted to a tollway under IC 8-23-7-22;
(2) any bridge, tunnel, overpass, underpass, interchange, structure, ramp, access road, service road, entrance plaza, approach, tollhouse, utility corridor, toll gantry, rest stop, service station, or administration, storage, or other buildings or facilities, including temporary facilities and buildings, facilities, and structures that will not be tolled, that the department considers appurtenant to or necessary or desirable for the financing, construction, operation, or maintenance of one (1) or more of the
items described in subdivision (1);
(3) any subsequent improvement, betterment, enlargement,
extension, or reconstruction of one (1) or more items described in
this section, including any nontolled part, that are separately
designated by name or number; and
(4) a project connecting the state of Indiana with an adjacent
state; or
(5) any combination of items or projects described in
subdivisions (1) through (4).
(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) This subdivision does not apply before July 1, 2015. 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);
(B) the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with an interstate highway in Illinois; or
(C) a project that is located within a metropolitan planning area (as defined by 23 U.S.C. 134) and that connects the state of Indiana with the commonwealth of Kentucky.
(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).
(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 an interstate highway in Illinois, or a project that is located within a metropolitan planning area (as defined by 23 U.S.C. 134) and that connects the state of Indiana with the commonwealth of Kentucky. Notwithstanding any other law,
(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).
(b) After review of the authority's determination by the budget committee, the governor may accept or reject the determination of the authority. If the governor accepts the determination of the authority, the governor shall designate the offeror who submitted the selected offer as the operator for the related toll road project. The authority shall publish notice of the designation of the operator for the related toll road project one (1) time, in accordance with IC 5-3-1.
(c) After the designation of the operator for the related toll road project, the authority may execute the public-private agreement with that operator.
(d) The budget committee shall hold a meeting and conduct a review of the determination not later than ninety (90) days after the date the authority's determination is submitted for review.
(b) Subject to review by the budget committee established by IC 4-12-1-3 and approval by the budget director appointed under IC 4-12-1-3, a public-private agreement entered into under this article may:
(1) establish a procedure for the authority or a person acting on
behalf of the authority to certify to the general assembly the
amount needed to pay any amounts owed by the authority under
a public-private agreement; or
(2) otherwise create a moral obligation of the state to pay any
amounts owed by the authority under the public-private
agreement.
(c) The authority may issue bonds under IC 4-4-11 or IC 8-15-2 to
provide funds for any amounts identified under this section without
complying with IC 8-9.5-8-10.
(d) If the agreement that is submitted for review provides for
any tolls, the budget committee shall hold a meeting and conduct
a review of the agreement not later than ninety (90) days after the
date the agreement is submitted for review.
(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) This subdivision does not apply before July 1, 2015. 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;
(B) the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with an interstate highway in Illinois; or
(C) a project that is located within a metropolitan planning area (as defined by 23 U.S.C. 134) and that connects the state of Indiana with the commonwealth of Kentucky.
(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.
(b) If all or part of the project will consist of a tollway, the department shall take the following steps before the commencement of the procurement process under this chapter:
(1) Except as provided by subsection (c), the department shall cause to be prepared a preliminary feasibility study and an economic impact study on that part of the project consisting of a tollway by a firm or firms internationally recognized in the preparation of studies or reports on the financial feasibility and economic impact of proposed toll road projects. Before the preparation of the preliminary feasibility study and the economic impact study, the department must conduct a public hearing on the proposed studies in the county seat of the county in which the proposed project would be located. At least ten (10) days before each public hearing, the authority shall:
(A) post notice of the public hearing on the department's Internet web site;
(B) publish notice of the public hearing one (1) time in accordance with IC 5-3-1 in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the county in which the proposed project would be located; and
(C) include in the notices under clauses (A) and (B):
(i) the date, time, and place of the hearing;
(ii) the subject matter of the hearing;
(iii) a description of the purpose of the proposed preliminary feasibility study and economic impact study; and
(iv) a description of the proposed project and its location.
At the hearing, the department shall allow the public to be heard on the proposed studies and the proposed project.
(2) The preliminary feasibility study must be based upon a public-private financial and project delivery structure. The economic impact study must, at a minimum, include an analysis of the following matters with respect to the proposed project:
(A) Economic impacts on existing commercial and industrial development.
(B) Potential impacts on employment.
(C) Potential for future development near the project area, including consideration of locations for interchanges that will maximize opportunities for development.
(D) Fiscal impacts on revenues to local units of government.
(E) Demands on government services, such as public safety, public works, education, zoning and building, and local airports.
The department shall post copies of the preliminary feasibility study and the economic impact study on the department's Internet web site and shall also provide copies of the studies to the governor and to the legislative council (in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6).
(3) After the completion of the preliminary feasibility study and the economic impact statement, the department shall schedule a public hearing on the proposed project and the studies in the county seat of the county that would be an affected jurisdiction for purposes of the proposed project. At least ten (10) days before the public hearing, the department shall:
(A) post notice of the public hearing on the department's Internet web site;
(B) publish notice of the hearing one (1) time in accordance with IC 5-3-1 in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in the county; and
(C) include the following in the notices under clauses (A) and (B):
(i) The date, time, and place of the hearing.
(ii) The subject matter of the hearing.
(iii) A description of the proposed project, its location, the part of the project consisting of a tollway, and, consistent
with the assessments reached in the preliminary feasibility
study, the estimated total cost of the acquisition,
construction, installation, equipping, and improving of the
proposed project, as well as the part of the project consisting
of a tollway.
(iv) The address and telephone number of the department.
(v) A statement concerning the availability of the
preliminary feasibility study and the economic impact study
on the department's Internet web site.
(4) At the hearing, the department shall allow the public to be
heard on the proposed project, the preliminary feasibility study,
and the economic impact study.
(5) After the completion of the public hearings described in
subdivision (3), the department shall submit the preliminary
feasibility study and the economic impact study to the budget
committee for its review before the commencement of the
procurement process under this chapter. If the preliminary
feasibility study or the economic impact study submitted for
review provides for any tolls, the budget committee shall hold
a meeting and conduct a review of the preliminary feasibility
study and the economic impact study not later than ninety
(90) days after the date the preliminary feasibility study and
the economic impact study are submitted for review.
(c) The following provisions apply if the department determines that
a feasibility study for the Illiana Expressway that was prepared before
March 15, 2010, meets the requirements of subsection (b) concerning
the preparation of a preliminary feasibility study:
(1) The department is not required to prepare an additional
preliminary feasibility study.
(2) The requirement under subsection (b)(1) for a public hearing
before preparation of a preliminary feasibility study does not
apply. However, the requirement under subsection (b)(1) for a
public hearing on the economic impact study does apply.
(3) The feasibility study prepared before March 15, 2010, is
considered to be the preliminary feasibility study for purposes of
subsection (b)(3) through (b)(5).
(b) The department may pursue a competitive proposal procedure
using a request for qualifications and a request for proposals process or
proceed directly to a request for proposals.
(c) If the department elects to use a request for qualifications phase,
it must provide a public notice of the request for qualifications, for the
period considered appropriate by the department, before the date set for
receipt of submittals in response to the solicitation. The department
shall provide the notice by posting in a designated public area and
publication in a newspaper of general circulation, in the manner
provided by IC 5-3-1. In addition, submittals in response to the
solicitation may be solicited directly from potential offerors.
(d) The department shall evaluate qualification submittals based on
the requirements and evaluation criteria set forth in the request for
qualifications.
(e) If the department has undertaken a request for qualifications
phase resulting in one (1) or more prequalified or shortlisted offerors,
the request for proposals shall be limited to those offerors that have
been prequalified or shortlisted.
(f) If the department has not issued a request for qualifications and
intends to use only a one (1) phase request for proposals procurement,
the department must provide a public notice of the request for
proposals for the period considered appropriate by the department,
before the date set for receipt of proposals. The department shall
provide the notice by posting in a designated public area and
publication in a newspaper of general circulation, in the manner
provided by IC 5-3-1. In addition, proposals may be solicited directly
from potential offerors.
(g) The department shall submit a draft of the request for proposals
to the budget committee for its review before the issuance by the
department of the request for proposals to potential offerors. The
request for proposals must:
(1) indicate in general terms the scope of work, goods, and
services sought to be procured;
(2) contain or incorporate by reference the specifications and
contractual terms and conditions applicable to the procurement
and the qualifying project;
(3) specify the factors, criteria, and other information that will be
used in evaluating the proposals;
(4) specify any requirements or goals for use of:
(A) minority business enterprises and women's business
enterprises certified under IC 4-13-16.5;
(B) disadvantaged business enterprises under federal or state
law;
(C) businesses defined under IC 5-22-15-20.5 as Indiana businesses, to the extent permitted by applicable federal and state law and regulations; and
(D) businesses that qualify for a small business set-aside under IC 4-13.6-2-11;
(5) if all or part of the project will consist of a tollway, require any offeror to submit a proposal based upon that part of the project that will consist of a tollway, as set forth in the request for proposals, and permit any offeror to submit one (1) or more alternative proposals based upon the assumption that a different part or none of the project will consist of a tollway;
(6) contain or incorporate by reference the other applicable contractual terms and conditions; and
(7) contain or incorporate by reference any other provisions, materials, or documents that the department considers appropriate.
If the draft of the request for proposals submitted for review provides for any tolls, the budget committee shall hold a meeting and conduct a review of the draft of the request for proposals not later than ninety (90) days after the date the draft request for proposals is submitted for review.
(h) The department shall determine the evaluation criteria that are appropriate for each project and shall set those criteria forth in the request for proposals. The department may use a selection process that results in selection of the proposal offering the best value to the public, a selection process that results in selection of the proposal offering the lowest price or cost or the highest payment to, or revenue sharing with, the department, or any other selection process that the department determines is in the best interests of the state and the public.
(i) The department shall evaluate proposals based on the requirements and evaluation criteria set forth in the request for proposals.
(j) The department may select one (1) or more offerors for negotiations based on the evaluation criteria set forth in the request for proposals. If the department believes that negotiations with the selected offeror or offerors are not likely to result in a public-private agreement, or, in the case of a best value selection process, no longer reflect the best value to the state and the public, the department may commence negotiations with other responsive offerors, if any, and may suspend, terminate, or continue negotiations with the original offeror or offerors. If negotiations are unsuccessful, the department shall terminate the procurement, may not award the public-private agreement, and may
commence a new procurement for a public-private agreement. If the
department determines that negotiations with an offeror have been
successfully completed, the department shall, subject to the other
requirements of this article, award the public-private agreement to the
offeror.
(k) Before awarding a public-private agreement to an operator, the
department shall schedule a public hearing on the preliminary selection
of the operator and the terms of the proposed public-private agreement.
The hearing shall be conducted in the county seat of the county that
would be an affected jurisdiction for purposes of the proposed project.
The department shall do the following:
(1) At least ten (10) days before the public hearing, post on the
department's Internet web site:
(A) the proposal submitted by the offeror that has been
preliminarily selected as the operator for the project, except for
those parts of the proposal that are confidential under this
article; and
(B) the proposed public-private agreement for the project.
(2) At least ten (10) days before the public hearing:
(A) post notice of the public hearing on the department's
Internet web site; and
(B) publish notice of the hearing one (1) time in accordance
with IC 5-3-1 in two (2) newspapers of general circulation in
the county that would be an affected jurisdiction for purposes
of the proposed project.
(3) Include the following in the notices required by subdivision
(2):
(A) The date, time, and place of the hearing.
(B) The subject matter of the hearing.
(C) A description of the agreement to be awarded.
(D) The recommendation that has been made to award the
agreement to an identified offeror or offerors.
(E) The address and telephone number of the department.
(F) A statement indicating that, subject to section 6 of this
chapter, and except for those portions that are confidential
under IC 5-14-3, the following are available on the
department's Internet web site and are also available for public
inspection and copying at the principal office of the
department during regular business hours:
(i) The selected offer.
(ii) An explanation of the basis upon which the preliminary
selection was made.
(iii) The proposed public-private agreement for the project.
(l) At the hearing, the department shall allow the public to be heard on the preliminary selection of the operator and the terms of the proposed public-private agreement.
(m) When the terms and conditions of multiple awards are specified in the request for proposals, awards may be made to more than one (1) offeror.
(b) After review of the department's determination by the budget committee, the governor may accept or reject the determination of the department. If the governor accepts the determination of the department, the governor shall designate the successful offeror as the operator for the project. The department shall publish notice of the designation of the operator one (1) time, in accordance with IC 5-3-1.
(c) After the designation of the successful offeror as the operator for the project, the department may execute the public-private agreement.
(d) An action to contest the validity of a public-private agreement entered into under this chapter may not be brought after the fifteenth day following the publication of the notice of the designation of the operator under the public-private agreement under subsection (b).
(e) If the department's determination submitted for review provides for any tolls, the budget committee shall hold a meeting and conduct a review of the determination not later than ninety (90) days after the date the determination is submitted for review.
(1) Issue bonds, debt, or other obligations under IC 4-4-11, IC 8-15-2, or IC 8-15.7-9.
(2) Enter into loan agreements or other credit facilities.
(3) Secure any financing with a pledge of, security interest in, or lien on all or part of a property subject to the agreement, including all of the party's property interests in the qualifying project.
(4) Subject to review by the budget committee established in
IC 4-12-1-3 and approval by the budget director appointed under
IC 4-12-1-3:
(A) establish a procedure for the authority or a person acting
on behalf of the authority to certify to the general assembly the
amount needed to pay costs incurred under a public-private
agreement; or
(B) otherwise create a moral obligation of the state to pay all
or part of any costs incurred by the authority under a
public-private agreement.
(b) The department and an operator may transfer any interest in
property that the department or operator has to the authority to secure
the financing.
(c) If items submitted for review under subsection (a)(4) provide
for any tolls, the budget committee shall hold a meeting and
conduct a review of the items not later than ninety (90) days after
the date the items are submitted for review.
(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) This subdivision does not apply before July 1, 2015. 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),
(B) the Illiana Expressway, a limited access facility connecting Interstate Highway 65 in northwestern Indiana with an interstate highway in Illinois; or
(C) a project that is located within a metropolitan planning area (as defined by 23 U.S.C. 134) and that connects the state of Indiana with the commonwealth of Kentucky.
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).
(1) determine:
(A)
(B) that the person applying for registration is entitled to register the vehicle;
(2) file the application;
(3) subject to subsection (b), register the vehicle described in the application; and
(4) keep a record of the application on suitable index cards under a distinctive registration number assigned to the vehicle and in any other manner the bureau considers desirable for the convenience of the bureau.
(b) Upon receiving notice, as described in IC 9-21-3.5-10(c), of an owner's failure to pay a fine, charge, or other assessment for a moving violation documented under IC 9-21-3.5-12, the bureau shall withhold the annual registration of the vehicle that the owner was operating when the owner committed the moving violation until the applicant pays the fine, charge, or assessment, plus any applicable fees, to:
(1) the bureau; or
(2) the appropriate authority under IC 9-21-3.5 that is responsible for collection of fines, charges, or assessments for moving violations under IC 9-21-3.5.
If the applicant pays the fine, charge, or assessment, plus any applicable fees, to the bureau as described in subsection (b)(2), the bureau shall remit the appropriate amount to the appropriate
authority under IC 9-21-3.5 that is responsible for collection of
fines, charges, or assessments for moving violations under
IC 9-21-3.5.
(b) A person who violates subsection (a) commits a moving violation, a Class C infraction.
(1) the placement and use of automated traffic law enforcement systems to enforce collection of user fees;
(2) required notification in the form of a citation to
(3) the process for collection and enforcement of unpaid amounts;
(4) the amount of fines, charges, and assessments for toll violations; and
(5) other matters relating to automated traffic law enforcement systems that the department or the authority considers appropriate.
(b) A rule adopted under subsection (a)(2) must establish:
(1) a deadline for the department, authority, or operator, as applicable, to issue a citation to an owner of a vehicle used in the commission of a moving violation under section 9 of this chapter; and
(2) a deadline, not to exceed thirty (30) days following receipt of the citation as determined under section 12(b)(1) of this chapter, for the owner to pay a fine, charge, or other assessment for the toll violation.
(c) The department shall establish a process by which the department, authority, or operator, as applicable, shall notify the bureau of an owner's failure to pay a fine, charge, or other assessment for a toll violation following the expiration of the deadline described in subsection (b)(2).
