5 Points from the Toll Payer Protection Act Proposal

What group is the brainchild of the Toll Payer Protection Act? Texans for Traffic Relief

What does the proposed Act do?

Required voter approval for all toll roads
transparent, accurate, and no exorbitant administration fees in toll billing
when the toll project costs are paid, tolls are removed
no tolling on existing lanes. never ever ever.
no Prop. 1 or 7 funds for tolling

PRESS RELEASE: TEXANS FOR TRAFFIC RELIEF ANNOUNCES NEW PLAN FOR TOLLING ACCOUNTABILITY AND TAXPAYER PROTECTION

Local TREND. Punish Ride Share via Scooter Ordinances

A proposal in San Francisco would consider this when granting scooter licenses:

an applicant’s “past experience, including compliance with applicable laws and its efforts to ensure compliance by its users with applicable laws.”

SF Chronicle | Scooter wars: SF may penalize Lyft, Uber for ride-hail misdeeds

Funding Source: Internet Tax Post US Supreme Court June 2018 Ruling. 2 Supporters.

Michigan is considering dedicating revenue from a new internet sales tax to transportation funding.

What’s the revenue estimate? $200 million

Who else supports this use of the internet sales tax?

The Michigan Department of Transportation
free-market think tank, the Mackinac Center

Iosco County News Herald | Michigan considers using internet sales tax revenue for road funding

Business, Legal and Regulatory TREND. Recouping the Cost of EV Charging Stations. Coming to a Legislature Near You.

WHERE: Missouri

What happened? Courts are determining whether EV charging stations are a means of obtaining a charging service or more like a gas station?

What’s the impact? If the EV charging stations are treated like gas stations then utilities can add EV charging stations in their rate base

What did the state PUC argue? That the EV charging stations offer a service, not the sale of electricity, and are not to be included in the rate base

What are Missouri courts saying? An Appellate…

CAMPAIGN and LEGE TREND. No Tollroads without Voter Approval Per Project. WHO. WHAT. WHERE.

WHO: Michael Quinn Sullivan

WHAT: Pushing local activists for primary election question on voter approval for toll roads, adding voter approval for tolls to the State GOP Party Platform, and calling for legislation

WHERE: Texas local GOP party activist, state GOP party, and Texas Legislature

Empower Texas | No Tolls without Voter Approval

Lege Trend. Internet Connected Cars + Restraining Orders

Internet Connected cars have become a tool for abusers to track their vicitims.

Look for legislation in a state house near you addressing:

manufacturer factory settings on internet conencted cars
internet connected cars in restraining orders

Motherboard | Connected Car Technology Can Enable Abusers to Track Their Victims

Lege TREND. Legislators Opposing Rural DPS Office Closures. 5 Reasons Why.

Reasons the rural Texas legislators oppose the Texas Susnet Commission’s recommednation to close 87 rural DPS offices:

places an unfair burden on rural communities
many counties have only 1 office, and that office would no longer exist
long-standing tendency to shift resources away from rural areas
No demonstrated success is shifting funding away from rural areas
“The approach the Sunset staff has taken is penny wise and pound foolish. Reducing the services, security, and emergency…