Introduced
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To authorize the Detroit area regional transportation authority created by a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2012-SB-909">2012 law</a> to enter agreements to operate a Woodward Avenue streetcar in Detroit with the entity authorized by <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-HB-6542">2008 law</a> to create it. The bill would exempt this project from a provision requiring unanimous action by the DARTA board for any form of rail passenger service, and specify that Detroit and Wayne County would be responsible for covering the line's operating deficits (and not other communities in the RTA).
Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Substitute offered
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To replace the previous version of the bill with one that revises details but does not change the substance as previously described.
The substitute passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To establish that if enacted the bill will go into effect 90 days afterwards.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Passed in the House 82 to 26 (details)
Referred to the Committee on Transportation
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the bill pass.
Passed in the Senate 32 to 6 (details)
To authorize the Detroit area regional transportation authority created by a <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2012-SB-909">2012 law</a> to enter agreements to operate a Woodward Avenue streetcar in Detroit with the entity authorized by <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2008-HB-6542">2008 law</a> to create it. The bill would exempt this project from a provision requiring unanimous action by the DARTA board for any form of rail passenger service, and specify that Detroit and Wayne County would be responsible for covering the line's operating deficits (and not other communities in the RTA).
