A bill to amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 with respect to a portion of the Wendell H. Ford (Western Kentucky) Parkway, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-1021
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced: 2019-04-03
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Kentucky

Motor carriers

Motor vehicles

Roads and highways
Latest action: action_date: 2019-04-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text: CR S2243)

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-04-03
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill designates the Wendell H. Ford (Western Kentucky) Parkway from the interchange with the William H. Natcher Parkway in Ohio County, Kentucky, west to the interchange of the Western Kentucky Parkway with the Edward T. Breathitt (Pennyrile) Parkway as (1) a high priority corridor on the National Highway System, (2) a segment of the Interstate System where vehicles are subject to a weight limitation, and (3) Interstate Route I-369.</p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1021 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 3, 2019 Mr. McConnell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works A BILL To amend the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 with respect to a portion of the Wendell H. Ford (Western Kentucky) Parkway, and for other purposes.

1. Wendell H. Ford (Western Kentucky) Parkway (a) Designation as high priority corridor Section 1105(c) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ( Public Law 102–240 ; 105 Stat. 2032; 131 Stat. 797) is amended by adding at the end the following: (91) The Wendell H. Ford (Western Kentucky) Parkway from the interchange with the William H. Natcher Parkway in Ohio County, Kentucky, west to the interchange of the Western Kentucky Parkway with the Edward T. Breathitt (Pennyrile) Parkway. . (b) Designation as future Interstate Section 1105(e)(5)(A) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ( Public Law 102–240 ; 109 Stat. 597; 131 Stat. 797) is amended in the first sentence by striking and subsection (c)(90) and inserting subsection (c)(90), and subsection (c)(91) . (c) Numbering of Parkway Section 1105(e)(5)(C)(i) of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 ( Public Law 102–240 ; 109 Stat. 598; 126 Stat. 426; 131 Stat. 797) is amended by adding at the end the following: The route referred to in subsection (c)(91) is designated as Interstate Route I–369. . (d) Operation of vehicles Section 127(l)(3)(A) of title 23, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the matter preceding clause (i), in the first sentence, by striking clause (i) or (ii) and inserting clauses (i) through (iii) ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (iii) The Wendell H. Ford (Western Kentucky) Parkway (to be designated as a spur of Interstate Route 69) from the interchange with the William H. Natcher Parkway in Ohio County, Kentucky, west to the interchange of the Western Kentucky Parkway with the Edward T. Breathitt (Pennyrile) Parkway. .