§ 2-103.1. State Report on Transportation
West's Annotated Code of MarylandTransportationEffective: June 1, 2023
Effective: June 1, 2023
MD Code, Transportation, § 2-103.1
§ 2-103.1. State Report on Transportation
(6) “Minor capital project” means any project for the preservation or rehabilitation of an existing facility or service, including the planning, design, right-of-way, construction, or purchase of equipment essential to the facility or service, and generally not requiring the preparation of an environmental impact assessment.
(b) The State Report on Transportation consists of the Consolidated Transportation Program and the Maryland Transportation Plan.
(c)(1) The Consolidated Transportation Program shall:
(5) The total operating and capital expenditures for the Department or for the Office of the Secretary or any modal administration projected in the Consolidated Transportation Program for the budget request year may not exceed the budget request for the Department, Office, or modal administration for that year.
(7)(i) The Department shall evaluate requests for major capital projects based on the State's transportation goals and, if applicable, using the measures established under § 2-103.7 of this subtitle, and, as appropriate, criteria as determined by the information submitted by the proposing entity and the availability of funding.
(8)(i) The Department, in developing a construction or improvement project involving a bridge or other transportation facility that is adjacent to or crosses a waterway for inclusion in the Consolidated Transportation Program, shall consider any reasonable and appropriate measures to provide or improve in the vicinity of the bridge or other transportation facility water access for fishing, canoeing, kayaking, or any other nonmotorized water dependent recreational activity.
(c-1) If a new approved pedestrian or bicycle safety construction or improvement project is projected to take more than 12 months to complete, the Department shall implement all possible incremental, near-term safety improvements as soon as practicable while maintaining each project's priority ranking.
(d)(1) The Maryland Transportation Plan shall:
(e) On or before November 15 of each year, the Department shall visit each county to give local governments and local legislative delegations information about and an opportunity to comment on the proposed Consolidated Transportation Program and the proposed Maryland Transportation Plan.
(f) At the earliest practical date but no later than November 1 of each year, the Department shall provide the proposed Consolidated Transportation Program and the proposed Maryland Transportation Plan to the Department of Planning for review and comment on planning issues including consistency between transportation investments and the State Economic Growth, Resource Protection, and Planning Policy and State priority funding areas established under Title 5, Subtitle 7B of the State Finance and Procurement Article.
(g) Beginning with the year 2002 State Report on Transportation and continuing thereafter, before the General Assembly considers the proposed Maryland Transportation Plan and the proposed Consolidated Transportation Program, the Department shall submit an annual report on the attainment of State transportation goals and benchmarks for the approved and proposed Maryland Transportation Plan and the approved and proposed Consolidated Transportation Program to the Governor and, subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article, to the General Assembly.
(h)(1) The report required under subsection (g) of this section shall include:
(3)(i) Beginning with the 2024 attainment report on transportation system performance, the advisory committee advising the Department on State transportation goals, benchmarks, and indicators shall recommend measurable transportation indicators that can be evaluated for racial, disability, ethnic, and low-income disparities based on available sources or information.
(i) The Smart Growth Subcabinet, established under Title 9, Subtitle 14 of the State Government Article, shall conduct an annual review of the State transportation goals, benchmarks, and indicators.
(j)(1) An advisory committee shall be assembled to advise the Department on the State transportation goals, benchmarks, and indicators under subsection (h) of this section.
(k) The Department may:
(l) In the report required under subsection (g) of this section, the Department shall:
(m)(1)(i) Subject to § 2-1257 of the State Government Article:
2. On submission of the budget bill to the presiding officers of the General Assembly, the Department shall submit copies of the approved Consolidated Transportation Program, including the manner in which each major transportation project was evaluated and ranked under § 2-103.7 of this subtitle, and the supporting financial forecast to the General Assembly.
3. A summary schedule for the Transportation Trust Fund that includes the opening and closing Fund balance, revenues, transfers, bond sales, bond premiums, any other revenues, expenditures for debt service, operating expenses, amounts available for capital expenses, bond interest rates, bond coverage ratios, total bonds outstanding, federal capital aid, and the total amount for the Transportation Capital Program.
C. Except as provided in subsubparagraph 2 of this subparagraph, shall increase the operating expenses, net of availability payments paid to public-private partnership concessionaires, each year by at least the 5-year average annual rate of change in the operating expenses of the Department, ending with the most recently completed fiscal year.
Credits
Added by Acts 1982, c. 289. Amended by Acts 1985, c. 11, § 4; Acts 1986, c. 396, §§ 1, 2; Acts 1988, c. 6, § 1; Acts 1992, c. 200; Acts 1995, c. 3, § 1, eff. March 7, 1995; Acts 1995, c. 495, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 1995; Acts 1996, c. 10, § 1, eff. April 9, 1996; Acts 1996, c. 87, § 1, eff. July 1, 1996; Acts 1996, c. 313, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1996; Acts 1997, c. 14, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1997; Acts 1997, c. 759, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1997; Acts 2000, c. 209, §§ 2, 6 eff. July 1, 2000; Acts 2000, c. 303, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2000; Acts 2000, c. 670, § 2, eff. July 1, 2000; Acts 2001, c. 29, §§ 1, 6, eff. April 10, 2001; Acts 2004, c. 430, § 1, eff. June 1, 2004; Acts 2005, c. 25, § 1, eff. April 12, 2005; Acts 2005, c. 444, § 1, eff. July 1, 2005; Acts 2007, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 2, § 8, eff. Jan. 1, 2008; Acts 2010, c. 72, § 1, eff. April 13, 2010; Acts 2010, c. 725, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2010; Acts 2013, c. 140, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2013; Acts 2014, c. 45, § 5; Acts 2016, c. 25, §§ 1, 2, eff. Oct. 1, 2016; Acts 2016, c. 36, § 1, eff. July 1, 2016; Acts 2017, c. 23, § 1, eff. June 1, 2017; Acts 2018, c. 10, § 1, eff. June 1, 2018; Acts 2018, c. 12, § 6; Acts 2019, c. 8, § 5; Acts 2019, c. 16, § 1, eff. June 1, 2019; Acts 2021, c. 109, § 1, eff. April 13, 2021; Acts 2021, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 11, § 1, eff. Jan. 5, 2022; Acts 2021, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 20, § 1, eff. Jan. 5, 2022; Acts 2022, c. 27, § 1, eff. June 1, 2022; Acts 2022, c. 563, § 1, eff. June 1, 2022; Acts 2023, c. 571, § 1, eff. June 1, 2023; Acts 2023, c. 583, § 1, eff. June 1, 2023; Acts 2023, c. 584, § 1, eff. June 1, 2023.
MD Code, Transportation, § 2-103.1, MD TRANS § 2-103.1
Current through legislation effective through April 9, 2023, from the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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