00                      CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 77(TRA)                                                                    
01 "An Act making a special appropriation to the Department of Transportation and                                          
02 Public Facilities to provide matching grant funds for operating expenses for certain                                    
03 locally and federally funded public transit projects; and providing for an effective date."                             
04 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
05    * Section 1. LEGISLATIVE INTENT. It is the intent of the legislature that the sum                                  
06 appropriated in sec. 2 of this Act be allocated to achieve a statewide balance of projects in                           
07 both rural and urban areas.                                                                                             
08    * Sec. 2. The sum of $3,000,000 is appropriated from the general fund to the Department of                         
09 Transportation and Public Facilities to provide matching grant funds that do not exceed 50                              
10 percent of project costs for locally and federally funded public transit projects that are not                          
11 state projects, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012.                                                               
12    * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect July 1, 2011.