Supporters of a proposed state transportation sales tax increase launched the “Yes on Amendment 7” campaign on June 24. Amendment 7 will appear before voters on the August 5 ballot. If passed, the [...]
Lawmakers in Texas are currently searching for a way to close the widening gap in funding needed to repair and maintain the state’s transportation infrastructure. Proposition One, also known as the “Texas Transportation [...]
A new ballot measure to repeal part of a law that indexes the state gas tax to inflation will be put before Massachusetts voters this fall. The coalition “Tank the Automatic Gas Tax [...]
Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander has approved the ballot question for House Joint Resolution 68, a bill that will raise the state sales and use tax by .75% for a period of [...]
Our recent review of state legislatures shows that several states have passed successful transportation funding bills in the past few months. Major funding victories were achieved in New Hampshire and Vermont, and several [...]
Business leaders in Santa Clara County, California have decided to wait until 2016 to move forward on a ballot initiative campaign to increase the county sales tax for transportation investment. The proposed sales [...]
Lawmakers Defer to Voters on Tax, Budget Issues Written by Elaine S. Povich, Staff Writer, for Stateline, the daily news service of The Pew Charitable Trusts. June 11, 2014 Many state legislatures have sent contentious [...]
Last week the Rhode Island House Finance Committee approved a plan to create a $28 million transportation infrastructure fund. Beginning July 1, the proposed budget will divert money from the state’s general fund, [...]
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has moved up a transportation sales tax ballot measure from its originally scheduled November 2014 election to this August. The measure proposes a three-fourths-cents state sales tax increase in order [...]
Last week the San Francisco Board of Supervisors introduced a $500 million general-obligation transportation bond (GO Bond) for the November ballot. This bond is one of three measures introduced last week as part [...]
