1996 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL 472

File Code: Transportation - Highways
Sponsored By:
Delegate Getty
Entitled:
Transportation - Privatization of Public Bus Transportation - Study and Report

Synopsis:

Requiring the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of privatizing public bus transportation services and to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by January 1, 1997; requiring the Department to study and report on the economic impact on various sectors, the impact on service, the impact on safety, potential providers, and the administrative feasibility of oversight; and providing for the abrogation of the Act.

Legislative History

House Action
1/31
First Reading Ways and Means
2/6
Re-assigned Appropriations
2/21
Hearing 3/6 at 1:00 p.m.
3/25
Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
3/23
Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
Second Reading Passed with Amendments
3/25
Third Reading Passed (122-11)
Senate Action
3/28
First Reading Senate Rules
3/29
Re-referred Budget and Taxation
4/1
Hearing 4/2 at 3:00 p.m.
4/5
Unfavorable Report by Budget and Taxation
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
BUSES -see also- SCHOOL BUSES
PRIVATIZATION
REPORTS -see also- RECORDS
TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION -see also- BUSES, MASS TRANSIT, RAILROADS
Bill affects the following Statute:
Transportation
( 7-102.2 )

Documents:

Bill Text:
First Reading (PDF), Third Reading (PDF), Enrolled
Fiscal Note: Available (PDF)

Amendments:
House
Number: 464322/1 (PDF) Offered on: MARCH 25, 1996 at: 21:14 Status: Adopted