RTA Accountability 3

SECTION 75.   Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, for fiscal year 2019, $2,000,000 of the total amount made available in item 1595-6370 of section 2E shall be distributed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation to regional transit authorities that have agreed to remedial plans. The plans shall include specific financial performance indicators and shall be designed to eliminate any unfunded deficits within 3 years and to forestall the reoccurrence of such deficits. The department shall submit a report to the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on transportation and the senate and house chairs of the joint committee on ways and means not later than March 15, 2019 on the fiscal health and remediation efforts of each regional transit authority that received funds pursuant to this section.