H97 - 2015 Appropriations Act, Sec. 29.17E: Study/Improving Safety on Secondary Roads (SL 2015-241)

Overview: Sec. 29.17E of S.L. 2015-241, as amended by Sec. 90.5 of S.L. 2015-264, does the following:

• Directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to study ways to improve safety and decrease the number of traffic accidents and fatalities occurring on secondary roads. DOT must report its findings and recommendations to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee (Transportation Oversight Committee) by February 1, 2016.
• Directs DOT to conduct a survey of the paved and unpaved roads in this State that are open to the public, but not currently a part of the State system and report its findings by June 30, 2016.
• Directs DOT to use $1 million in nonrecurring funds from the Secondary Unpaved Road Paving Program to establish a pilot program to improve paved or unpaved roads that are open to the public, but not currently a part of the State system. DOT must implement the pilot program by December 1, 2015, report the results of the pilot program to the Transportation Oversight Committee by December 1, 2016, and the pilot program will expire upon submission of the report.

This section became effective July 1, 2015.