Agenda - Transportation, Highways and Public Works

Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
April 8, 2010 Upon Adjournment Room E
Adjourned

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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
	SCR8	J.SMITH	CONGRESS - Memorialize the United States Congress to support expansion and use of domestic natural gas and alternative energies, and urge agencies to operate vehicles using compressed natural gas.
	SB27	N.GAUTREAUX	MOTOR VEHICLES - Exempts a registered owner of a motor vehicle who is a member of the armed services from the duty to maintain liability security while on active duty overseas. (8/15/10)
	SB39	MCPHERSON	TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT - Changes the requirement for holding public hearings on the highway priority program from the DOTD to the Joint Highway Priority Construction Committee. (8/15/10)
	SB63	J.AMEDEE	TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT - Requests DOTD to study the feasibility of a West Bank Turnpike. (8/15/10)
	SB77	MCPHERSON	TRANSPORTATION/DEV DEPT - Provides that the chairmen of the Senate and House Committees on transportation, highways and public works shall serve as chairman of the board of the Louisiana Transportation Authority on a two-year rotating basis. (8/15/10)
	SB93	MURRAY	MOTOR VEHICLES - Creates a prestige license plate for Masonic Blue Lodge. (8/15/10) (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
	SB171	N.GAUTREAUX	TRAFFIC - Changes the name of the "Louisiana Highway Safety Commission Fund" and the disposition of monies collected for fines and penalties by local law enforcement for exceeding the posted speed limit by less than ten miles per hour.
	SB270	WALSWORTH	MOTOR VEHICLES - Provides for annual royalty fee for prestige license plates for high schools.(07/01/10)
	SB273	WALSWORTH	ROADS/HIGHWAYS - Designates a portion of Interstate 20 in Ouachita Parish in honor of certain servicemen who lost their lives in the Iraq war. (8/15/10)
	SB407	MCPHERSON	MOTOR VEHICLES - Removes authority for record check fee for Class D and E drivers licenses and requires a refund. (gov sig) (EN -$13,600,000 SG RV See Note)
	SB506	CROWE	MOTOR VEHICLES - Creates the special prestige license plate honoring the World Champion New Orleans Saints with proceeds being used solely to pay debt service on state debt issued to fund imporvements to the La. Superdome. (7/1/10) (RE1 SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
	SB524	MURRAY	MOTOR VEHICLES - Establishes and provides for a prestige license plate for the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, Warren Easton High School and LSU School of Dentistry. (8/15/10)
	SB616	MCPHERSON	TRAFFIC - Provides relative to speed limits on highways. (8/15/10)
	SB617	MCPHERSON	MOTOR VEHICLES - Prohibits impounding of a motor vehicle stopped while being operated by a Louisiana residents for a first violation except when there exists no imminent danger to the public by the operator, the vehicle, or both. (8/15/10)
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT