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Committee votes to repeal statute enabling DOT membership in Western States transportation compact
Summary
The House Transportation Committee voted to advance House Bill 1215, a measure repealing statutory language that authorized the Department of Transportation to join a multistate highway compact (the Western States Transportation Alliance).
Representative Ruby told the House Transportation Committee that the provision of state law permitting the Department of Transportation to join a multistate highway transportation agreement (commonly known as the Western States Transportation Alliance, WESTA) had outlived its usefulness. He described dwindling participation and no meetings since the COVID period and asked the committee to repeal the statutory authorization.
"We have done no meetings, no activity since for…
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