Category Archives: legislative trend

5 Ways Utah Reformatted its Transportation Funding. AZ looking to Follow Suit,

Utah lawmakers reformatted transportation funding in 2 significant ways:

  • Utah raised the state gas tax to 12 percent
  • Utah also bolstered the gas tax with an inflation-tied trigger for automatic increases
  • The revised gas tax has  a floor of 29.4 cents per gallon
  • It has a ceiling of 40 cents per gallon.
  • Local voters are limited to adding a 0.25 cent sales tax split between city and county transportation and transit needs.

An Arizona Senator said of Utah,

“In 22 states, and mostly red…

Funding Roads with Cigarette Taxes on the Ballot in 2015.

Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association is promoting an initiative to significantly raise tobacco taxes. The details:

  • A proposed 135% tax increase
  • The funding will allow for top priority safety projects to be done like unsafe bridges and roads
  • The funding would be effective 1/1/17

WGEM.COM: Proposed tobacco tax hike in Missouri could help area roads

St.Louis Post- Dispatch

 

Americans for Prosperity Enter Palmetto State Gas Tax Debate

The gas tax is taking center stage for campaign season in South Carolina. “Anti-tax activists are working the phones to secure GOP senators’ opposition in 2016, when every legislator is up for re-election.”

The message: Reform the system. Don’t add more money. No new taxes. Governance reforms include:

  • abolishing both the legislatively appointed DOT commission and the State Infrastructure Bank (which funds transportation rojects)

The Chamber of Commerce retorts that reform is needed along…

Lege Trend: Peachy Transportation Laws Impact Local Governments in 2 Ways. Ends Aviation Exemptions.

Georgia this year overhauled transportation funding by passing HB 107, that will:

  • phase out the State’s 4% sales and use tax on motor fuel
  • raises the excise tax to $0.26 cents per gallon on gasoline and $0.29 per gallon on diesel, dedicated to transportation funding
  • creates an up to $100 fee on heavy trucks
  • eliminates the $5,000 state income tax credit for buying an electric vehicle
  • total-electric car owners will now pay a $200 annual fee ($300 for commercial vehicles)
  • adds an…

Golden State in Special Session on Transportation Funding & Governance. 2 Governance Proposals.

Last week we talked about business & labor leaders in California proposing an increase in fees and taxes to generate $6 billion for road funding.  This week the California Economic Summit’s Infrastructure action team suggested transportation governance overhaul including:

 

  • “Creating additional regional financing authorities authorized to build and maintain transportation and goods movement projects—and to enter into public-private partnerships to fund these projects, conduct…

Regulatory Trend: Update to Ride Share Rules from the Silver Mine State

Nevada’s proposed rules for ride share regulations have now been published. The rules include:

  • $300,000 application fee + a levy of 1% of annual revenue
  • Drivers could face a $50 fee the first year and $10 annual renewals

Procedural hurdles for the rules:

  • public hearing
  • consideration by state lawmakers on the Legislative Commission.

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TX Prop. 7: Dedicating Funds for State Highway Fund

Proposition 7

“The constitutional amendment dedicating certain sales and use tax revenue and motor vehicle sales, use, and rental tax revenue to the state highway fund to provide funding for nontolled roads and the reduction of certain transportation-related debt.”

Governor Abbott Proclamation

Senator Nichols, “If passed by the voters, the proposition would be the largest single increase in transportation funding in Texas history.”   GoSanAngelo