Bills › 89th General Assembly
Relating to reduced use of road salt on highways and streets
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 12, 2021
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Government agencies that manage roads must create programs to use less road salt over five winter seasons. To keep roads safe, these agencies must increase their use of organic additives instead of salt. Each agency must track how much salt they use and send reports to the Department of Transportation.1
Read the official explanation
This bill requires each agency, meaning a governmental body which exercises jurisdiction over any road as provided by law, including the department of transportation (DOT), to create a road salt use reduction program. percent per winter season for five winter seasons beginning with the winter season commencing on November 1, 2021. The percent reduction is measured against the amount of road salt used by the agency during the preceding winter season, except that the reduction required for the winter season commencing on November 1, 2021, is measured against the amount of road salt used in the winter season commencing on November 1, 2019. The bill defines the terms “road salt” and “winter season”. The bill requires each agency to proportionally increase its use of organic additives, including the byproducts of midwestern-grown renewable crops, to treat or control the accumulation of ice and snow on highways and streets such that no decrease in the effectiveness of snow and ice treatment or control occurs. An agency that fails to meet the required percent reduction in road salt use in any winter season must add the amount of the shortfall to the following winter season’s required reduction. A county, city, or other municipality subject to the program requirements of the bill must file a report with the DOT on or before June following each winter season in which it is required to reduce road salt use under its program. The DOT must also create a report on or before June following each winter season in which it is required to reduce road salt use under its program. The reports required by the bill must include the amount of road salt used by the agency during the most recent winter season; the amount of road salt used during the winter season preceding the most recent winter season, except the report required following the first winter season of the program shall include the amount of road salt used by the agency during the winter season commencing in 2019; and the percentage difference between the two amounts. of representatives standing committees on transportation and the legislative services agency.3.2, subsection 3, which would relieve a political subdivision from complying with a state mandate if funding for the cost of the state mandate is not provided or specified. Therefore, political subdivisions are required to comply with any state mandate included in the bill.