Summary of HB10-1243

Sponsors: McFadyen/Gibbs

Section 1 of the bill:

• Authorizes a special district that is a metropolitan district organized with street improvement, safety protection, or transportation powers, as defined by existing law, to levy, with voter approval, a uniform sales tax in any unincorporated territory of the district;
• Requires proceeds of any sales tax levied to be used only to fund transportation-related safety protection and street improvement in areas of the metropolitan district in which the tax is levied and transportation, as described in, and limited by, specified existing statutory provisions;
• Requires the department of revenue to collect, administer, and enforce any sales tax levied; and
• Specifies that revenues raised by a metropolitan district through the levy of a sales tax are in addition to and shall not be used to supplant any state funding that the district or any county, municipality, regional transportation authority, or other governmental entity that has transportation-related powers and that includes territory located within the district would otherwise be entitled to receive from the state.

Section 2 of the bill authorizes a special district that is organized with street improvement, safety protection, or transportation powers, as defined by existing law, to join a regional transportation authority.

Sections 3 and 4 of the bill make conforming amendments.

Status:

02/03/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy
02/03/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy + Finance
02/03/2010 Introduced In House - Assigned to Transportation & Energy + Finance + Appropriations
03/11/2010 House Committee on Transportation & Energy Refer Amended to Finance
03/17/2010 House Committee on Finance Refer Unamended to Appropriations
03/26/2010 House Committee on Appropriations Refer Unamended to House Committee of the Whole
04/01/2010 House Second Reading Passed with Amendments
04/02/2010 House Third Reading Passed
04/05/2010 House Third Reading Passed
04/13/2010 Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Transportation
04/22/2010 Senate Committee on Transportation Refer Unamended to Senate Committee of the Whole
04/27/2010 Senate Second Reading Passed
04/28/2010 Senate Third Reading Passed
05/20/2010 Signed by the President of the Senate

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