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1 ======= LC0 ======= H S T A T E O F R H O D E I S L A N D IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 01 A N A C T RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY Introduced By: Representatives Edwards, Canario, Gallison, Finn, and Marshall Date Introduced: June 0, 01 Referred To: House Finance It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Sections -1-, -1-0.A and -1-0.F of the General Laws in Chapter -1 entitled "Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority" are hereby amended to read as follows: -1-. Amount of tolls. -- Tolls shall be so fixed and adjusted in respect of the aggregate of tolls from the project or projects or the portion or portions thereof in connection with which bonds shall have been issued under the provisions of this chapter as to provide a fund sufficient with other revenues, if any, to pay (1) the cost of maintaining, repairing, and operating the project or projects or portion or portions thereof and () the principal of and the interest on the bonds as the prinicipal principal and interest shall become due and payable, and to create reserves for such purposes; provided, however, that the authority shall establish commutation rates for traffic over the Mount Hope Bridge by all vehicles, which rates shall not be in excess of the commutation rates in effect for vehicles on January 1, 10. Tolls shall not be subject to supervision or regulation by any commission, board, bureau or agency of the state or of any municipality or other political subdivision of the state. Provided, further, that tolls on the Newport Bridge shall be fixed at the toll rate applied as of January 1, 01 and no such tolls shall be permitted on the Sakonnet Bridge, Mount Hope Bridge or Jamestown Bridge A. Title to Mount Hope Bridge vested in Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority -- Continuation of tolls. -- All powers, control, and jurisdiction of and title to the Mount Hope Bridge is hereby affirmed as having vested in the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge

2 authority as of June 1, 1, and the transfer of funds to the authority by the trustee under the trust indenture securing the Mount Hope Bridge revenue bonds is hereby ratified and affirmed. The authority shall continue to charge and collect tolls for the use of the Mount Hope Bridge to provide funds sufficient with any other monies available therefor for paying the costs of maintaining, repairing, and operating the bridge, and in any event tolls for the use of the Mount Hope Bridge shall continue until a fund shall be provided for the payment of engineering, financing, and legal services in connection with the financing and construction of the Newport Bridge. The power and right of the authority to collect and to use tolls collected for the use of the Mount Hope Bridge subsequent to June 1, 1 for the purpose of payment of engineering, financial, and legal services in connection with the financing and construction of the Newport Bridge in an amount heretofore expended not in excess of six hundred thousand dollars ($00,000) is hereby ratified and affirmed F. Title to Sakonnet River Bridge vested in Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority -- Institution of tolls. -- All powers, control, and jurisdiction of and title to the Sakonnet River Bridge is authorized to be transferred to the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority. The authority may charge and collect tolls for the use of the Sakonnet River Bridge to provide funds sufficient with any other monies available therefor for paying the costs of acquiring, leasing, maintaining, repairing and operating, the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge, the Mount Hope Bridge, the Newport Bridge, and the Sakonnet River Bridge, the turnpike and additional facilities. SECTION. Chapter -1 of the General Laws entitled "Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sections: -1-0.H. Title to state-owned bridges of 00 feet or more vested in Rhode Island bridge and turnpike authority. -- All powers, control, and jurisdiction of and title to all stateowned bridges of 00 feet or more is authorized to be transferred to the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority, including those bridges identified by the department of transportation as follows: Bridge Bridge Facility Feature City/ Length ID Name Carried Intersected Town (ft) Newport RI 1 East Passage Narr Jamestown.00 1 Bridge Authority Bay Jamestown- RI 1 West Passage Narr Bay Jamestown.0 Verrazzano Mount Hope RI Mt Hope Bay, N Sec Bristol.00 LC0 - Page of

3 RR, LP Sakonnet RI & Sakonnet River Portsmouth.00 River RI Red Bridge Seekonk Seekonk River & East Providence 0. River Cross City Sts 1...Ramp WS I-1 W Rmp SE, US 1, I- Providence 1.0 to I- SB NB & SB Washington I-1 WB Seekonk River East Providence 10. Bridge North 01...Ramp NE I- N US 1 & Blackstone St Providence 1. to I-1 E Washington I-1 EB Seekonk River & Sts East Providence. Bridge South 01...Ramp SE Rmp SE-S I- Rmp NP & WS, Providence. 1 to 1 E US 1, Eddy Street Huntington US Westminster, Troy, Providence Ave Viaduct Olneyville Exp Amtrak Providence I- NB & US,Woonsocket River, Providence 1. Viaduct SB Amtrak 1...Providence I-1 EB & Providence River, South Providence River Bridge WB Main & South Water Sts 01...Harris Ave Mall Rmp Harris Ave Providence.1 RV- AD Goat Island Goat Island Newport Harbor Newport.0 Causeway Causeway Ramp AD Ramp AD Amtrak, Woonsocket Providence 1.1 Civic Center River, Ramp BD Blackstone RI NB & Blackstone River, P & W Lincoln River SB Railroad 01...Ramp NP Ramp NP Ramp WN, Ramp SE, Providence.0 Eddy Street Ashton RI Geo Blackstone River, P & W Cumberland.0 Viaduct Wash Hgwy Railroad Ramp CB- Ramp CB- Amtrak & City Streets Providence 1.0 LC0 - Page of

4 Civic Center Ramp BD I- Ramp US, W Exchange St, Providence 1. Civic Center BD Ramps Huntington RI I- NB & SB, Amtrak Cranston. Viaduct Huntington Exp Airport Airport Arrival Road Warwick 0.00 Elevated Rdwy Elev Rdwy Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority fund established. -- (a) There is hereby created within the department of transportation's intermodal surface transportation fund, a bridge maintenance fund. Said bridge maintenance fund shall be used for the sole purpose of distributing to the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority an amount equal to the authority's cost of maintaining all of the bridges under the control of the authority. The amount paid from the bridge maintenance fund shall be reduced by any such amount collected as allowable toll revenue pursuant to powers granted to the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority. (b) The fund shall consist of monies generated from the following: (1) Beginning in fiscal year 01, those funds remitted to the fund pursuant to section relating to the motor vehicles emissions inspection program. () Effective fiscal year 01, and each year thereafter until the fiscal year 0, an amount to be determined by the following chart shall be deposited into the bridge maintenance fund from the funds collected pursuant to section 1-.1-: (i) FY 01...five million dollars ($,000,000) (ii) FY ten million dollars ($,000,000) (iii) FY fifteen million dollars ($1,000,000) (iv) FY twenty million dollars ($0,000,000) (v) FY 00...twenty-five million dollars ($,000,000) (vi) FY thirty million dollars ($0,000,000) (vii) FY 0 thirty-five million dollars ($,000,000) (viii) FY 0 and each fiscal year thereafter... forty million dollars ($0,000,000) () Beginning in fiscal year 01 and continuing thereafter, all fines assessed pursuant to sections 1-- and of the general laws, the "Motor Vehicle Reparations Act" over and above that amount collected pursuant to those sections in fiscal year 01. () Beginning in fiscal year 01 and continuing thereafter, that amount of motor vehicle insurance premiums tax collected pursuant to section -1-1 of the general laws, over and above LC0 - Page of

5 that amount collected pursuant to that section in fiscal year 01. () Beginning in fiscal year 01 and continuing thereafter, the amount of three million dollars ($,000,000) from Rhode Island Capital Plan Fund. (c) In the event that the state in any fiscal year shall fail to transfer the funding required by subsection (b) of this section, the Rhode Island bridge and turnpike authority shall be permitted to pursue the installation of tolling. (d) Unexpended balances and any earnings thereon shall not revert to the general fund but shall remain in the bridge maintenance fund for the sole use by Rhode Island bridge and turnpike authority for bridge maintenance activities Maintenance cost basis. -- For purposes of determining the Rhode Island turnpike and bridge authority's cost of maintaining the state's bridges, the department shall consider the total projected costs of the authority over the period of fiscal year 01 through fiscal year 0 as redetermined from time to time by the authority. SECTION. Section of the General Laws in Chapter 1-.1 entitled "Motor Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program" is hereby amended to read as follows: Fees. -- (a) A fee of thirty-nine dollars ($.00) sixty-five dollars ($.00) is to be charged for each motor vehicle inspected. The amount of fees collected shall provide for the cost of the inspection, the costs of administering the motor vehicle emissions inspection program, the costs of administrating the bridge maintenance fund pursuant to chapter -1 and other costs provided by law. The fee must be paid for each motor vehicle inspected at an emissions inspection station at the time of the inspection and is payable whether a compliance certificate, waiver certificate, or no certificate is issued. There shall be no fee charged for one reinspection of a vehicle that failed an initial inspection when the reinspection is conducted at the AIRS that conducted the initial inspection. (b) Of the thirty-nine dollars ($.00) sixty-five dollars ($.00) fee, nineteen dollars ($1.00) twenty-two dollars ($.00) shall be retained by the inspection station owner to cover the costs of performing the inspection. The remaining twenty dollars ($0.00) forty-three dollars ($.00) shall be remitted to the program manager. The program manager shall retain no more than four dollars ($.00) of the fee and remit no less than sixteen dollars ($1.00) for deposit in the state general fund and not less than twenty-three dollars ($.00) to the bridge maintenance fund created by subsection -1- (a) of the general laws. The general assembly shall annually appropriate such sums as may be required to cover the costs of administering the program by the division of motor vehicles and the department of environmental management. (b)(c) The general assembly shall on or before June 0th of each calendar year review LC0 - Page of

6 the costs and fees associated with the program with the goal of eliminating all fees being directed to the general fund and to eliminate all costs and fees not directly related and necessary to pay the costs of administering the motor vehicle emission inspection program as required under 0 CFR 1.(a). (c) Effective fiscal year 01, the fees collected herein shall be collected and distributed pursuant to section -1-. SECTION. Section -- of the General Laws in Chapter - entitled "State Funds" is hereby amended to read as follows: --. Indirect cost recoveries on restricted receipt accounts. -- Indirect cost recoveries of ten percent (%) of cash receipts shall be transferred from all restricted receipt accounts, to be recorded as general revenues in the general fund. However, there shall be no transfer from cash receipts with restrictions received exclusively: (1) from contributions from non-profit charitable organizations; () from the assessment of indirect cost recovery rates on federal grant funds; or () through transfers from state agencies to the department of administration for the payment of debt service. These indirect cost recoveries shall be applied to all accounts, unless prohibited by federal law or regulation, court order, or court settlement. The following restricted receipt accounts shall not be subject to the provisions of this section: Department of Human Services Veterans' home -- Restricted account Veterans' home -- Resident benefits Organ transplant fund Veteran's Cemetery Memorial Fund Department of Health Pandemic medications and equipment account Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals Eleanor Slater non-medicaid third-party payor account Hospital Medicare Part D Receipts RICLAS Group Home Operations Vigneron Memorial Fund Grant Department of Environmental Management National heritage revolving fund Environmental response fund II Underground storage tanks registration fees Rhode Island Council on the Arts LC0 - Page of

7 Art for public facilities fund Rhode Island Foundation Grant Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission Historic preservation revolving loan fund Historic Preservation loan fund -- Interest revenue Department of Public Safety Forfeited property -- Retained Forfeitures -- Federal Forfeited property -- Gambling Donation -- Polygraph and Law Enforcement Training Rhode Island State Firefighter's League Training Account Fire Academy Training Fees Account Attorney General Forfeiture of property Federal forfeitures Attorney General multi-state account Department of Administration Office of Management and Budget Information Technology Investment Fund Restore and replacement -- Insurance coverage Convention Center Authority rental payments Investment Receipts -- TANS Car Rental Tax/Surcharge-Warwick Share OPEB System Restricted Receipt Account ARRA Administrative Expenses - Bureau of Audits ARRA Administrative Expenses - Purchasing Legislature Audit of federal assisted programs Department of Elderly Affairs Pharmaceutical Rebates Account Department of Children Youth and Families Children's Trust Accounts -- SSI Military Staff RI Military Family Relief Fund LC0 - Page of

8 RI National Guard Counterdrug Program Treasury Admin. Expenses -- State Retirement System Retirement -- Treasury Investment Options Business Regulation Banking Division Reimbursement Account Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner Reimbursement Account Securities Division Reimbursement Account Commercial Licensing and Racing and Athletics Division Reimbursement Account Insurance Division Reimbursement Account Historic Preservation Tax Credit Account. Judiciary Arbitration Fund Restricted Receipt Account Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Statewide Student Transportation Services Account School for the Deaf Fee for Service Account Davies Career and Technical School Local Education Aid Account Early Childhood Grant Program Account Office of the Governor ARRA Administrative Expenses -- Office of Economic Recovery and ReInvestment Department of Labor and Training Job Development Fund -- Title XII loans principal and interest Department of Transportation Bridge Maintenance Fund SECTION. Beginning in fiscal year 01 and continuing thereafter, the general assembly shall annually appropriate the amount of two million dollars ($,000,000) to the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority for use by the authority in implementing its approval strategic plan. SECTION. This act shall take effect upon passage. ======= LC0 ======== LC0 - Page of

9 EXPLANATION BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF A N A C T RELATING TO HIGHWAYS -- RHODE ISLAND TURNPIKE AND BRIDGE AUTHORITY *** 1 This act would provide various amendments restricting tolls on bridges and would establish a bridge maintenance fund to provide for said bridge maintenance. This act would take effect upon passage. ======= LC0 ======= LC0 - Page of