Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
May 13, 2010
Upon Adjournment
Room E
Adjourned
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CALL TO ORDER
ROLL CALL
LEGISLATION TO BE CONSIDERED
SB659
HEBERT
ROADS/HIGHWAYS
- Establishes the State Highway Maintenance by Parishes Pilot Program providing for transfer of maintenance money to the parishes in DOTD District 03 for maintenance of state highways located in District 03. (7/1/10)
SB718
MORRISH
MOTOR VEHICLES
- Provides for special permit for bagged rice. (8/15/10) (2/3-CA7s2.1(A)) (EG INCREASE SD RV See Note)
SB767
MCPHERSON
TRAFFIC
- Provides for disposition of fines collected by local law enforcement for exceeding the posted speed limit by less than ten miles per hour. (7/1/10)
SB768
MCPHERSON
MOTOR VEHICLES
- Provides that a tow truck operator called by a law enforcement agency to remove an abandoned motor vehicle will not lose its place in the rotation call list. (8/15/10) (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
HCR29
RICHARD
HIGHWAYS
- Requests DOTD to install a red light at the intersection of North Acadia Road on La. Highway 648 (Percy Brown Road) in Lafourche Parish and to reduce the speed along this route
HCR35
GISCLAIR
HIGHWAYS
- Requests the Dept. of Transportation and Development to install highway shoulders along La. Highway 308 and through Ascension Parish to La. Highway 1
HB96
RICHARD
MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES
- Creates the "State Employee Retired" license plate (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
HB211
PUGH
MTR VEHICLE/OFF ROAD
- Allows off-road vehicles to be operated on state college and university streets
HB356
CHAMPAGNE
HIGHWAYS
- Designates an overpass
HB372
PEARSON
TRAFFIC/SPEED LIMITS
- Repeals provisions relative to speed limits on I-10 in St. Tammany Parish (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
HB646
BROSSETT
LEVEES
- Provides with respect to the Southeast Flood Protection Authority East and West
HB647
ST.GERMAIN
MOTOR VEHICLES
- Allows publicly owned fire trucks with fire apparatuses to use blue lights
HB759
ST.GERMAIN
TRAFFIC
- Revises the definition of "intersection"
HB870
GEYMANN
MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC
- Directs DPS&C not to implement the Federal PASS ID Act (EN NO IMPACT See Note)
HB1043
HENRY
MTR VEHICLE/TOWING
- Defines normal business hours for towing and storage companies
HB1165
ARNOLD
MTR VEHICLE/LICEN PLATES
- Establishes the New Orleans Saints License Plate (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX See Note)
HB1236
LEGER
MTR VEHICLE/DRIVER LIC
- Provides for suspension of driver's license upon premature removal of ignition interlock device
HB1277
ROY
TRANSPORTATION DEPT
- Authorizes the use of a portion of Interstate 49 as an alternate route for U.S. Highway No. 71 and U.S. Highway No. 167 to haul agronomic or horticultural crop on the interstate system
CONSIDERATION OF ANY OTHER MATTERS THAT MAY COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE
ADJOURNMENT