HCS HB 924, 714, 685, 756, 734, & 518 -- TRANSPORTATION AND
TRANSPORTATION FUNDING

SPONSOR:  Koller (Wiggins)

COMMITTEE ACTION:  Voted "do pass" by the Committee on
Transportation by a vote of 15 to 5.

This substitute is a comprehensive package relating to
transportation and transportation funding.

The substitute:

(1)  Repeals the 6-cent motor fuel tax enacted in 1992 and
enacts a 9-cent motor fuel tax;

(2)  Increases the state sales and use tax on tangible personal
property, including the purchase and lease of motor vehicles,
trailers, boats, and outboard motors, from 4% to 4.75%;

(3)  Removes the sunset and the cap on the sales and use tax
upon aviation jet fuel;

(4)  Ends the payment of revenue from the Transportation
Department Fund for non-department use;

(5)  Redirects the current one-half of the proceeds from the tax
on motor vehicles, trailers, boats, and outboard motors from the
General Revenue Fund to newly created funds, the Public Transit
Fund and the Multimodal Fund.  Eighty percent of the redirected
revenue will go to the Public Transit Fund to be used for
planning, locating, relocating, establishing, acquiring,
constructing, administering, developing, maintaining, or
operating public transit systems in the state.  Twenty percent
will go to the Multimodal Fund to be used for non-highway
transportation projects and public transit projects;

(6)  Creates a State-Local Cooperation Fund and an Interstate
Improvement Fund into which one-third of the increase in sales
and use tax will be deposited.  (Two-thirds will go to the
General Revenue Fund.)  Of the one-third increase, one-fourth
will go to the State-Local Cooperation Fund to be used to award
grants for locally identified transportation projects and
three-fourths will go to the Interstate Improvement Fund to be
used for principal and interest payment on bonds, maintenance,
preservation, improvement, construction, and reconstruction of
the state's interstate highway system;

(7)  Requires the state to maintain up to 40 center-line miles
of arterial state highways in the City of St. Louis.  The city
will be responsible for all right-of-way and utilities located
under the traveled portion on these arterial highways within the
city;

(8)  Eliminates the requirement that road projects be bid in
sections not to exceed 10 miles;

(9)  Allows the Highways and Transportation Commission to enter
into design-build highway project contracts.  Design-build
projects may be used only for construction work greater than 10
miles;

(10)  Increases vehicle registration fees by 33%; and

(11)  Lowers the blood alcohol content (BAC) level necessary for
a conviction of driving with excessive BAC from .10 to .08.

Additional revenue produced by the substitute will not be
considered part of total state revenue within the meaning of
Sections 17 and 18 of Article X of the Constitution.

The substitute contains 2 referendum clauses.  The parts of the
substitute which increase, direct, or redirect revenues are
subject to a vote of the people at a special election on
November 5, 2002.  The additional revenue raised by the
substitute will be subject to referendum in 2012 and every 10
years thereafter.

FISCAL NOTE:  Total Estimated Net Effect on All State Funds of a
cost of $9,206,630 in FY 2002, an income of $249,585,399 in FY
2003, and an income of $659,383,860 in FY 2004.

PROPONENTS:  Supporters say that adequate transportation funding
is of major importance to Missouri's economy and now is the time
to fix that need.

Testifying for the bill were Representatives Wiggins, Koller,
Bray, Seigfreid, Ostmann, and Hartzler; Transport Missouri;
Bi-State Development Agency (HB's 924, 685); East-West Gateway
Council (HB 924); St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth
Association (HB's 924, 685, 734); Trailnet (HB 685); Missouri
Bicycle Federation (HB 685); City of Columbia (HB 685); Citizens
for Modern Transit (HB's 924, 734); Missouri Public Transit
Association (HB's 692, 685); Sierra Club (HB 685); Kansas City
Area Transportation Authority (HB's 756, 685, 924, 734);
Missouri Department of Transportation (HB 714); Missouri
Transportation Coalition (HB 924); Associated General
Contractor's of St. Louis (HB 714); Greater Kansas City Chamber
of Commerce (HB's 924, 756, 734); Jacobs/Sverdrup Facilities,
Inc. (HB 714); and City of Columbia-terminal Railroad (HB 685).

OPPONENTS:  There was no opposition voiced to the committee.

Robert Triplett, Legislative Analyst

Missouri House of Representatives
Last Updated November 26, 2001 at 11:46 am