HB 1489-1_ Filed 03/25/2003, 14:36

COMMITTEE REPORT

MR. PRESIDENT:

    The Senate Committee on Transportation and Homeland Security, to which was referred House Bill No. 1489, has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as follows:

    Delete the title and insert the following:
    A BILL FOR AN ACT concerning high speed rail funding.
    Delete everything after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SOURCE: ; (03)CR148901.1. -->     SECTION 1. [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2003] (a) This SECTION applies to a state fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2003, and ending before July 1, 2005.
    (b) For each state fiscal year described in subsection (a), the Indiana department of transportation shall expend at least ten percent (10%) of Indiana's federal funding for state planning and research received under 23 U.S.C. 505 during the state fiscal year to pay planning costs, including environmental impact studies,


associated with the development of a high speed passenger rail system in Indiana.
    (c) This SECTION expires July 1, 2005.

    (Reference is to HB 1489 as printed February 20, 2003.)

and when so amended that said bill do pass.

Committee Vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0.

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    Wyss
Chairperson


CR148901/DI 71    2003