{"id":941,"date":"2018-01-24T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2018\/01\/24\/lege-trend-gas-tax-for-school-transportation-3-key-points-read-the-bill\/"},"modified":"2018-01-24T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T19:10:00","slug":"lege-trend-gas-tax-for-school-transportation-3-key-points-read-the-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-gas-tax-for-school-transportation-3-key-points-read-the-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Gas Tax for School Transportation. 3 Key Points. Read the Bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State:<\/strong>\u00a0Kentucky<\/p>\n<p><strong>The gas tax proposal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrc.ky.gov\/lrcsearch\">House Bill 211<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 cents<\/li>\n<li>rebranded\u00a0from &#8220;gas tax&#8221; increase to &#8220;school transportation funding fee&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the new funds will be specifically dedicated to school transportation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The revenue estimates from a 3 cent school transporation fee in Kentucky:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$90 million in new revenue<\/li>\n<li>$30 million to be used for bonds for new buses<\/li>\n<li>the remaining $60 million will go to the state&#8217;s share of school transportation funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsenterprise.com\/news\/local\/lexington-official-proposes-gas-tax-to-help-school-transportation-costs\/article_fa4f7e45-34cc-5972-89b0-3d9c0597d1f8.html\">News-Enterprise |\u00a0Lexington official proposes gas tax to help school transportation costs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State:<\/strong>\u00a0Kentucky<\/p>\n<p><strong>The gas tax proposal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrc.ky.gov\/lrcsearch\">House Bill 211<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3 cents<\/li>\n<li>rebranded\u00a0from &#8220;gas tax&#8221; increase to &#8220;school transportation funding fee&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the new funds will be specifically dedicated to school transportation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The revenue estimates from a 3 cent school transporation fee in Kentucky:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$90 million in new revenue<\/li>\n<li>$30 million to be used for bonds for new buses<\/li>\n<li>the remaining $60 million will go to the state&#8217;s share of school transportation funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewsenterprise.com\/news\/local\/lexington-official-proposes-gas-tax-to-help-school-transportation-costs\/article_fa4f7e45-34cc-5972-89b0-3d9c0597d1f8.html\">News-Enterprise |\u00a0Lexington official proposes\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,30,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funding","category-legislative-trend","category-local-government","category-taxes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}