04/17/2016 08:00 AM Senate FINANCE

HOUSE BILL NO. 259                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act relating to relocation assistance for                                                                              
     federally   assisted   projects   and   programs;   and                                                                    
     providing for an effective date."                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                
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Co-Chair MacKinnon noted that there  was a public hearing on                                                                    
HB 259 on April 16, 2016.                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                
MARK LUIKEN, COMMISSIONER,  DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND                                                                    
PUBLIC  FACILITIES,  explained  that the  bill  proposed  to                                                                    
bring   the   Department   of  Transportation   and   Public                                                                    
Facilities  (DOT) relocation  policy  and  payments in  line                                                                    
with a  change in federal law.  The bill would allow  DOT to                                                                    
increase  the  payments  to  people who  would  need  to  be                                                                    
relocated as a  result of property being  acquired through a                                                                    
DOT transportation project.                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Senator  Olson asked  if  there was  any  opposition to  the                                                                    
legislation.                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
Commissioner Luiken answered in the negative.                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair  Micciche discussed  FN 1  (DOT), (OMB  component                                                                    
2357), and  stated that it  was a  zero fiscal note  with no                                                                    
capital  and no  added  personnel. He  relayed  there was  a                                                                    
brief note  on the  back of the  fiscal note  that indicated                                                                    
there  was  no  impact  on the  operating  budget,  and  the                                                                    
increased   relocation  costs   would  be   absorbed  within                                                                    
existing capital program funding.                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
Vice-Chair Micciche MOVED to report  HB 259 out of Committee                                                                    
with individual recommendations  and the accompanying fiscal                                                                    
note.                                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
HB  259 was  REPORTED  out  of committee  with  a "do  pass"                                                                    
recommendation  and  with   one  previously  published  zero                                                                    
fiscal note: FN 1(DOT).                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                
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