Amendment #194 to H5150

RTA funding

Representatives Straus of Mattapoisett and Peake of Provincetown move to amend the bill:

in section 2E, in item 1595-6370, by striking the words “; and provided further, that in the distribution of performance grants, prioritization shall be given to a regional transit authority whose contract assistance under section 23 of said chapter 161B is less than 50 per cent of the net cost of service of the regional transit authority”;

and

by striking section 34 in its entirety and inserting in place thereof the following:-

Notwithstanding any special or general law to the contrary, for fiscal year 2021, $90,500,000 of the amount transferred in item 1595-6370 of section 2E shall be considered operating assistance and distributed to regional transit authorities; provided, that for fiscal year 2021, $87,000,000 shall be distributed based on fiscal year 2020 distributions ensuring that each regional transit authority shall receive operating  assistance from this item of not less than the amount received in fiscal year 2020 in accordance with executed FY20/FY21 regional transit authority MassDOT MOUs; and, provided further, that $3,500,000 shall be distributed to each regional transit authority based on the following formula: 60 percent based on total transit ridership as reported on the most recent certified national transit data base report, 30 percent based on  population of its member communities from the most recent census, and 10 percent based on service coverage area determined by the total square miles of its member communities.

Additional co-sponsor(s) added to Amendment #194 to H5150

RTA funding