Bill Text - SB656 (2020)

Relative to including business impacts in department of transportation engineering and design plans.


Revision: April 3, 2020, 9:54 a.m.

SB 656-FN-LOCAL - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

03/05/2020   0743s

2020 SESSION

20-2937

08/06

 

SENATE BILL 656-FN-LOCAL

 

AN ACT relative to including business impacts in department of transportation engineering and design plans.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 5; Rep. Fenton, Ches. 8; Rep. Cleaver, Hills. 35

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the department of transportation to include business impacts in its engineering and design plans for certain projects.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03/05/2020   0743s 20-2937

08/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to including business impacts in department of transportation engineering and design plans.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Section; Business Impacts; Department of Transportation.  Amend RSA 228 by inserting after section 31-b the following new section:

228:31-c  Business Impacts; Department of Transportation.  For projects exceeding $5 million, the department of transportation shall include in its engineering and design how to mitigate effects on entry, access, or parking.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.

 

LBAO

20-2937

Amended 3/10/20

 

SB 656-FN-LOCAL- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE (AMENDMENT #2020-0743s)

 

AN ACT relative to including business impacts in department of transportation engineering and design plans.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [    ] State              [    ] County               [    ] Local              [ X ] None

 

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill requires the Department of Transportation to include certain business impacts in its engineering and design for projects over $5,000,000, to which the Department states encompasses what it already does as a matter of course, and therefore will have no fiscal impact.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Transportation