House of Representatives

HB 2502

state transportation board

Sponsors: Representatives Cooley, Pearce, Pierce, Avelar et al

X	Committee on Transportation
	Committee on Retirement and Government Operations
	Caucus and COW
	Third Read
	As Passed the House

HB 2502 expands the State Transportation Board from 7 to 9 members, with 1 additional member from Maricopa county and one at large. The powers and duties of the board are also expanded.

History

Current statute divides the State Transportation Board into six transportation districts with one Transportation Board member from each district, except for two from the Maricopa County district. Under current law, only two of the seven members of the State Transportation Board can reside in Maricopa County. Maricopa County contains 60 percent of the state’s total population. The following is a breakdown of the Board’s current membership by Transportation District:

2 members representing District 1 (Maricopa County)

1 member representing District 2 (Pima County)

1 member representing District 3 (Cochise, Greenlee and Santa Cruz counties)

1 member representing District 4 (Gila, Grahma and Pinal counties)

1 member representing District 5 (Apache, Coconino and Navajo counties)

1 member representing District 6 (La Paz, Mohave, Yavapi and Yuma counties)

Provisions

· Adds two members to the board, an additional member from Maricopa County and the other from the state- at- large.

· Requires the Governor to consider individuals with relative experience in the transportation field when appointing members to the Board.

· Eliminates the requirement that the Governor appoint a person from a different county in transportation districts with more than one county.

· States that if a member changes residence to another transportation district the member’s office becomes vacant.

· Strikes language that required board to designate the district members with the shortest and next shortest periods of time remaining to serve to complete terms as chairman and vice chairman respectively.

· Stipulates that board shall elect a member to serve as chairperson and another to serve as vice chairperson.

· Specifies that person elected to serve as vice chairperson shall serve as chairperson the following year and that at least every third year the chairperson shall be a representative of Maricopa county. The vice-chairperson shall preside in the absence of the chairperson.

· Broadens the powers and duties of the board to include the ability to establish strict access control standards for all future, state highway development projects.

· Requires the Board to develop a state wide transportation policy statement in order to assure the development and maintenance of a comprehensive modally integrated and balanced statewide transportation system, which shall be updated every two years.

· States that subject to appropriated legislative funding the board may authorize the employment of professional and clerical personnel and that these staff will not be employees of the department.

· Permits board to spend monies on traffic control devices on state highways that are within 75 miles from the border between Arizona and Mexico.

· Makes technical and conforming changes

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· 45th Legislature

· Second Regular Session 2 January 25, 2002

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