House File 446 - Introduced



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                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the road use tax fund by allowing counties to
  2    create a regional transportation board for secondary road
  3    improvements and providing for allocations from the fund.
  4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  5 TLSB 1998HH 81
  6 eg/sh/8

PAG LIN



  1  1    Section 1.  Section 312.2, Code 2005, is amended by adding
  1  2 the following new subsection:
  1  3    NEW SUBSECTION.  19.  The treasurer of state, before making
  1  4 the allotments provided for in this section, shall credit
  1  5 annually for five years from the road use tax fund to a
  1  6 regional transportation board created pursuant to section
  1  7 312.2A an amount equal to fifteen percent of the revenues
  1  8 generated in the region in the prior fiscal year and deposited
  1  9 in the road use tax fund for road improvements and planning
  1 10 pursuant to section 312.2A.
  1 11    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  312.2A  REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION
  1 12 BOARD.
  1 13    1.  Two or more counties may enter into a chapter 28E
  1 14 agreement to provide for the creation and establishment of a
  1 15 regional transportation board.  Each county board of
  1 16 supervisors shall appoint members to the board as follows:
  1 17    a.  Two residents of the county.
  1 18    b.  One resident of the largest city in each county.
  1 19    2.  The board shall prepare a regional plan for secondary
  1 20 road improvements.  On or before January 1, 2006, and each
  1 21 year thereafter, the board shall submit a report to the
  1 22 department on the regional plan prepared under this section.
  1 23    3.  The board shall use the road use tax fund moneys
  1 24 allocated to the board pursuant to section 312.2 for regional
  1 25 secondary road planning and improvements.
  1 26                           EXPLANATION
  1 27    This bill allows two or more counties to form a regional
  1 28 transportation board to fund regional planning and
  1 29 improvements for secondary roads.  The county board of
  1 30 supervisors appoints the board members, who represent both the
  1 31 counties and the largest cities within the counties.  The
  1 32 board is required to submit an annual report on the regional
  1 33 plan for road improvements to the department of
  1 34 transportation.
  1 35    The bill provides that prior to allocations in Code section
  2  1 312.2, subsections 1 through 4, a regional transportation
  2  2 board established pursuant to the bill will receive annually
  2  3 for five years from the road use tax fund an amount equal to
  2  4 15 percent of the revenues generated in the region in the
  2  5 prior fiscal year and deposited in the road use tax fund.
  2  6 LSB 1998HH 81
  2  7 eg:nh/sh/8