HS HCS HB 924, 714, 685, 756, 734 & 518 -- TRANSPORTATION AND
TRANSPORTATION FUNDING (Wiggins)

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

The substitute:

(1)  Increases the state motor fuel tax from 17 to 20 cents per
gallon;

(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)  Creates a State Highway Patrol Fund, Department of Revenue
Fund, and Motor Carrier and Railroad Safety Fund and sets a cap
on the amount of sales tax money that may be deposited into the
funds;

(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 58.4 center-line miles
of arterial state highways in the City of St. Louis.  The
Department of Transportation and the city must mutually agree on
the roadways to be maintained;

(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 a design-build highway pilot project within the next 10
years;

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

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

(12)  Requires the Department of Natural Resources to certify,
without conditions, any federal Clean Water Act Section 404
nationwide permit for the construction of highways and bridges
approved by the Department of Transportation;

(13)  Requires that funds distributed under the substitute to
public conveyances or facilities of public transportation be
subject to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
of 1990; and

(14)  Prohibits transportation funds, less funds required to
cover administrative and maintenance costs, from being allocated
until a formula based on quantitative factors is established in
cooperation with the department, metropolitan planning
organizations, and regional planning commissions.  All
previously authorized highway funds will also be included in the
allocation formula.

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:  Estimated Net Income to General Revenue Fund of $0
in FY 2002, $75,034,588 in FY 2003, and $1,428,832 in FY 2004.
Estimated Net Income to State Road/Highway and Transportation
Department Funds of $0 in FY 2002, $64,744,196 in FY 2003, and
$352,414,856 in FY 2004.  Income to State-Local Co-op Fund of $0
in FY 2002, $15,917,000 in FY 2003, and $40,000,000 in FY 2004.
Income to Interstate Improvement Fund of $0 in FY 2002,
$47,750,000 in FY 2003, and $120,000,000 in FY 2004.  Income to
Public Transit Fund of $0 in FY 2002, $33,150,000 in FY 2003,
and $81,900,000 in FY 2004.  Income to Multimodal Fund of $0 in
FY 2002, $10,200,000 in FY 2003, and $25,200,000 in FY 2004.
Income to Aviation Trust Fund of $0 in FY 2002, $0 in FY 2003,
and $2,500,000 in FY 2004.

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