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Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘Resolve, To Require the Department of Transportation To Facilitate and Oversee a Study of the Feasibility of an East-west Highway’
Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and before the summary and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1 Department of Transportation to facilitate and oversee a study of the feasibility of an east-west highway. Resolved: That the Department of Transportation shall facilitate and oversee an independent investment-grade traffic and revenue analysis to assess the feasibility of a privately funded, privately operated and publicly accessible east-west highway; and be it further
Sec. 2 Reporting date established. Resolved: That the Department of Transportation shall report the study findings to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over transportation matters by January 15, 2013.’
 
SUMMARY
This amendment, which is the majority report, strikes and replaces the bill with a resolve and removes the emergency preamble, emergency clause and one-time General Fund appropriation of $300,000 in fiscal year 2011-12 to the Department of Transportation to cover the costs associated with an independent feasibility study of an east-west highway.
This amendment directs the Department of Transportation to facilitate and oversee an independent feasibility study of an east-west highway and to report the study findings to the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over transportation matters by January 15, 2013.
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED
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