Relating to transportation and other infrastructure- related appropriations to the department of transportation, including allocation and use of moneys from the road use tax fund and the primary road fund and other related provisions, and including effective date and retroactive applicability provisions

This bill makes appropriations for FY 2020-2021 from the road use tax fund and the primary road fund to the department of transportation. Appropriations from the road use tax fund include appropriations for driver’s license production, administrative services, planning, highways, motor vehicles, strategic performance, utility services provided by the department of administrative services, unemployment and workers’ compensation, indirect cost recoveries, audits, county issuance of driver’s licenses and vehicle registration and titling, participation in the Mississippi river parkway commission, the traffic and criminal software program and the mobile architecture and communications handling program, the statewide interoperability network, and motor vehicle division field facility maintenance projects. Appropriations from the primary road fund include appropriations for administrative services, planning, highways, motor vehicles, strategic performance, utility services provided by the department of administrative services, unemployment and workers’ compensation, hazardous waste disposal, indirect cost recoveries, audits, the production of transportation maps, inventory and equipment replacement, the statewide interoperability network, utility improvements, roofing projects, heating and cooling improvements, deferred maintenance projects at field facilities, maintenance projects at rest area facilities, improvements related to compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, and renovations to the northwest wing of the department headquarters in Ames. The bill requires the department of transportation to study the effectiveness of rumble strips in preventing vehicle crashes at certain intersections and requires the department to submit a report of its findings to the general assembly on or before December 31, 2021. The bill, if approved by the governor on or after July 1, 2020, takes effect upon enactment and applies retroactively to July 1, 2020.