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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | December 8, 2023 01:29 PM |
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| From: | Representative Mike Cabell |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Preventing the expiration of critical local match waivers for the Multimodal Transportation Program |
| The Multimodal Transportation Program was enacted in Act 89 of 2013 to provide grants for transportation projects that are integrated across multiple modes of transportation and are coordinated with local land use needs. The grants are allocated by the Department of Transportation and the Commonwealth Financing Authority. As part of the effort to assist municipalities that are undertaking such projects, the General Assembly has annually waived the 30% local match requirements for municipalities since 2017. Under current law, this provision is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2023. The language necessary to extend the expiration has historically been included in budget implementation legislation that remains unenacted for the 2023-24 fiscal year. The loss of the waiver of local match requirements is problematic for the future use of the program by municipalities, many of whom rely on the Multimodal Transportation Program to fund critical transportation projects. Worse yet, based on information provided by the executive branch, any pending application that has not been awarded as of December 31, 2023 will be required to meet that 30% local match requirement, even though the project budget and applications may have been completed months ago. My legislation will make this waiver of local match requirements permanent, so that transportation funding for municipalities is not held hostage to budget implementation delays again. |
Introduced as HB1912