HJR 2004 (LSB 5347YH (3) 85)

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 2004

BY  HIGHFILL

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa to dedicate a portion of state revenue from the tax imposed on certain retail sales of tangible personal property and services for the benefit of the public highways.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  The following amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa is proposed:
   1.  Section 8 of Article VII of the Constitution of the State of Iowa, as added by amendment number 18 of the amendments of 1942, is amended to read as follows:
   Motor vehicle fees and fuel taxes.  SEC. 8.  All motor vehicle registration fees, and all licenses and excise taxes on motor vehicle fuel, except cost of administration, and all amounts generated by a state sales tax rate of five-tenths of one percent as may be imposed upon the retail sales price of tangible personal property and the furnishing of enumerated services sold in this state, shall be used exclusively for the construction, maintenance and supervision of the public highways exclusively within the state or for the payment of bonds issued or to be issued for the construction of such public highways and the payment of interest on such bonds.
    Sec. 2.
  PUBLICATION AND REFERRAL.
  The foregoing proposed amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa is referred to the general assembly to be chosen at the next general election for members of the general assembly, and the secretary of state is directed to cause the proposed amendment to be published for three consecutive months previous to the date of that election as provided by law.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with

the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Iowa dedicating a portion of state sales and services tax revenue for the construction, maintenance, and supervision of public highways or for the payment of bonds and interest on bonds issued for the construction of public highways. The amount to be credited is the amount generated by a sales tax rate of five-tenths of one percent. The amount is in addition to the amounts from all motor vehicle registration fees and all licenses and excise taxes on motor vehicle fuel, which are currently dedicated to road funding and credited to the road use tax fund established for that purpose.
   The resolution, if adopted, would be published and then referred to the next general assembly (86th) for adoption before being submitted to the electorate for ratification.