2024 House Bill 5969

Transportation: other; access to park-and-ride lots for transit agencies to use as intermodal transfer points; provide for.

A bill to amend 1909 PA 283, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, discontinuing, vacating, closing, altering, improvement, maintenance, and use of the public highways and private roads; the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges; maintaining public access to waterways under certain conditions; setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, and cutting weeds and brush within this state; providing for the election or appointment and defining the powers, duties, and compensation of state, county, township, and district highway officials; and to prescribe penalties and provide remedies,” by amending section 2 of chapter V (MCL 225.2).

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The bill mandates the Michigan State Transportation Department to enhance ridesharing programs, including carpooling and park-and-ride lots, with annual legislative funding to support these initiatives.

Introduced in the House

Sept. 26, 2024

Introduced by Rep. Samantha Steckloff (D-19) and three co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Noah Arbit (D-20), Natalie Price (D-5) and Jennifer Conlin (D-48)

Referred to the Committee on Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure