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TIAC tracks the latest state & local transportation funding news. To contribute to this effort, contact Carolyn Kramer Simons.
May 13 Weekly Roundup: Transportation Funding Increase Plans
While Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) on May 5 reiterated his plan to push for a transportation funding increase without raising state motor fuel taxes in an upcoming special legislative session, several Republican legislators revealed their intent to introduce a 13 cents-per-gallon motor fuel tax [...]
Jan. 28: State News Roundup
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) proposed an increase in the state motor fuel tax during his Jan. 26 State-of-the-State address. Read More *** A plan to increase the Alaskan state gas tax received its first legislative hearing Jan. 26. The state is currently facing a [...]
States Assess Effects of Federal Surface Transportation Bill
Both Missouri and Arkansas expressed concerns Dec. 2 that their states will not be able to provide the required matching funds in order to receive federal highway money as laid out in the surface transportation bill, “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act,” or FAST Act, signed [...]
April 2015 State Transportation Funding Initiatives Report: States Continue Advancing Transportation Bills
More than 30 states, or well over half of the country, are considering new transportation funding legislation so far this year, according to the Transportation Investment Advocacy Center’s fourth 2015 report on state legislation. TIAC staff have tracked over 100 bills in 32 states throughout 2015. [...]
Fourteen State DOTs Concerned About Feasibility of Future Transportation Projects due to Highway Trust Fund Uncertainty
Officials in 14 states have said that their transportation programs will be impacted if Congress does not take action soon to fix the ailing Highway Trust Fund (HTF). Four of those states have already canceled or delayed more than $868 million in transportation improvement projects [...]
ARKANSAS: Bond Measure—Issue #1(2012)
This successful and highly effective ballot initiative campaign in Arkansas produced a sales tax increase in 2012. Arkansas voters approved Issue 1, a half-cent sales tax increase to go toward a $1.3 billion bond for a 4-lane state highway network as well as for road [...]
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