A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to modernize sti transit funding.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 136‑189.10(2)e. reads as rewritten:
"e.	Public transportation service not included in subdivision (3) or (4) of this section. This sub‑subdivision includes commuter rail, intercity rail, and light rail."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 136‑189.10(3)g. reads as rewritten:
"g.	Public transportation service that spans two or more counties and that serves more than one municipality."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 136‑189.10(4) is amended by adding a new sub‑subdivision to read:
"i.	Public transportation service that spans four or more counties and that serves more than three municipalities."
SECTION 4.  G.S. 136‑189.11(d1) is repealed.
SECTION 5.  There is appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Transportation the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2022‑2023 fiscal year to hire a transit grant consultant to identify opportunities to capture federal mass transit funding based on existing proposed mass transit corridors.
SECTION 6.  This act is effective when it becomes law.