S.B. 36 Transportation Commission Amendments: transcript

Thank you. And we are on the first sub, correct?

During the, uh, interim committee, there was some discussion as to, um, the structure of, uh, the Transportation Commission, the duties of the executive director, and what the geographical boundaries of a region should be. Currently, right now in udot, we have four regions. Those have not changed since 1993. There's some discussion with, uh, all of the growth in Southern Utah and all the new roads. They're going to the parks and having a single region headquartered in, in St. George. And really nothing other than road maintenance on the east side of the state. Should we actually have six regions? Is that more expensive? Is that, uh, better for management? Uh, maintenance of all the roads? The, uh, the Transportation Commission was organized in 1963 as the State Road Commission. We modified it, uh, and called it the Transportation Commission in 75 96. We moved from five to seven members and then, and they were all geographically based in 2009. We went from, uh, the seven members that are, you know, geographically based to four, one per region and three at large. Um, and there's, there was some discussion last two years really as to, is do we need to update this? So what this does is call for the call for uoc to get with all the stakeholders, review their history, review the needs of the different regions of the state, the areas, uh, taking into consideration population growth and, and, uh, lane miles and all that type of stuff. And find out, come back report to the interim committee, do we make a change? And if so, what it is, if not, are we fine? So that's what it, what it does.

Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. I apologize. Um, is the substitute already adopted?

Oh, no, we're good. Um, I make a motion that we pass out s sp 31st substitute SB 36.

You. Appreciate your attention to this, and stay tuned. We'll have lots of discussion over the interim.

Waive all. Thank you.

discussion on regions, the executive director, the Transportation Commission, and was decided we didn't have enough time. So this bill creates a study program to require the department transportation and other, uh, relevant stakeholders to look at the composition of the transportation Commission, the regions, and the, uh, qualifications for the executive director. After, uh, interim was over, it was, uh, brought to my attention that we left out two items. Uh, staff had forgot to put in a, uh, definitional phrase and that's why uh, there's, there's a new thing in the substitute bill. Plus there was an i, uh, clarification on a couple of the study items and with that, Mr. President, I'd move that we delete and title embody Senate bill 36 and replace with first substitute Senate Bill 36. Thank

So that this goes through And does the, uh, study for those three items as discussed in interim?

You. Under suspension of the rules, I move that first substitute Senate bill 36 pass.

Senator Vickers Baldy Aye. Lewin Bramer bus A Colmore You Samia Fillmore Grover Harper Aye. Hankins Aye. Ipson Aye. Johnson Aye. Quan McKay? Aye. Mikel Milner. Musman Owens pitcher Aye. Plum rebe sandal Aye. Stevenson Aye. Aye. Stratton Aye. Vickers Aye. Weiler Aye. Wilson. Aye.

Madam Meeting Clerk First substitute Senate bill 36 Transportation Commission Amendments by Senator Harper. This bill was heard in transportation with a vote of 11 0 1. The House sponsors Representative Christofferson. Representative Christofferson.

Thank you Mr. Speaker. Um, this bill, uh, does a study on the Transportation Commission. We haven't looked at that for a long time. There are, uh, some regions, uh, over the years, uh, the growth and that has changed. And what we want to do is just have a study to evaluate if their responsibilities and their areas of, uh, that they, that they represent, um, meets the needs. So basically it's just to look at it, have a deep dive and then, uh, come back and, and make any recommendations, uh, next year. But, uh, it also looks at the uh, uh, director of udot and says, what are the responsibilities there? Uh, what are the requirements to become, to be a director? We wanna look at that as well. So with that, I'll answer any questions.

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