"NEW SECTION.  Sec. 1   (1)(a) The department of transportation shall administer a study to examine multimodal transportation improvements and strategies to comply with the concurrency requirements of RCW 36.70A.070(6), subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose. The study shall be completed by one or more regional transportation planning organizations established under chapter 47.80 RCW electing to participate in the study.
     (b) The department of community, trade, and economic development shall provide technical assistance with the study to the department of transportation and participating regional transportation planning organizations.
     (2) The department of transportation shall, in consultation with members from each of the two largest caucuses of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate, and members from each of the two largest caucuses of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, approve the scope of the study established by this section.
     (3) The study shall, at a minimum, include:
     (a) An assessment and comprehensive summary of studies or reports examining concurrency requirements and practices in Washington;
     (b) An examination of existing or proposed multimodal transportation improvements or strategies employed by a city in a county with a population of one million or more residents;
     (c) An examination of transit services and how these services promote multimodal transportation improvements or strategies for jurisdictions planning under RCW 36.70A.070(6)(b);
     (d) Recommendations for statutory and administrative rule changes that will further the promotion of effective multimodal transportation improvements and strategies that are consistent with the provisions of RCW 36.70A.070 and 36.70A.020(3);
     (e) Recommendations for improving the coordination of concurrency practices in all jurisdictions;
     (f) Recommendations on a methodology that jurisdictions may use to evaluate the effectiveness of multimodal concurrency strategies in jurisdictions subject to the provisions of RCW 36.70A.070 and 36.70A.020(3);
     (g) An identification of effective multimodal transportation improvements and strategies employed by jurisdictions subject to RCW 36.70A.215;
     (h) Recommendations for model multimodal transportation improvements and strategies that may be employed by counties and cities; and
     (i) An examination of multimodal infrastructure needs, such as bus pull outs and pedestrian crosswalks and overpasses, and how these needs can be better identified in the plans required by RCW 36.70A.070(6).
     (4) The department of transportation shall, in coordination with participating regional transportation planning organizations completing the study established by this section, submit a report of findings and recommendations to the appropriate committees of the legislature by December 31, 2006."