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GA HB1218
Bill
Status
Introduced
2/17/2010
Primary Sponsor
Jim Cole
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AI Summary
- Creates 12 special districts in Georgia, aligned with existing regional commission boundaries, each authorized to impose a 1 percent regional transportation sales and use tax for 10 years upon approval by majority vote in a district-wide referendum, with the first election set for the 2012 general primary
- Establishes regional transportation roundtables composed of county and municipal representatives to collaboratively develop investment lists of transportation projects, with an executive committee that includes state legislators and must hold at least two public meetings before finalizing the list
- Distributes 25 percent of tax proceeds directly to local governments within each special district based on a formula weighting population (one-fifth) and road miles (four-fifths), with the remaining 75 percent funding projects on the approved regional investment list
- Exempts the regional transportation tax from the existing 2 percent cap on local sales and use taxes, limits the tax to the first $5,000 of motor vehicle sales, and excludes motor vehicle fuel, jet fuel, off-road equipment fuel, and manufacturing energy from taxation
- Creates the Georgia Regional Transportation Legislative Oversight Committee (3 House members, 2 Senate members) and the Transit Governance Study Commission to examine the feasibility of consolidating Atlanta-area public transit entities into an integrated regional transit body, with a final report due by August 1, 2011
Legislative Description
Transportation Investment Act of 2010; enact
Last Action
House Committee Favorably Reported
3/18/2010
Committee Referrals
Transportation2/17/2010
Full Bill Text
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