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House approves bill letting counties ask voters for quarter‑cent sales tax for regional transportation, limits fixed‑guideway property taxes
Summary
The Utah House passed House Bill 4,001, allowing counties to ask voters to impose up to a quarter‑cent sales tax for regionally significant transportation projects, prohibiting new county property‑tax levies for fixed guideways after Jan. 1, and adding a legislative review process for prioritization; the bill passed the House 55–19–1.
House Bill 4,001, a measure to give counties a new local revenue option for regionally significant transportation projects, passed the Utah House on a 55–19–1 vote and was sent to the Senate.
The bill lets a county legislative body place an up‑to‑quarter‑cent sales‑and‑use tax question before voters in a November election after the local governing body approves it. "The first thing that this bill does is it prohibits counties from levying a property tax, to fund a fixed guideway after January 1," sponsor Representative Lockhart said in opening remarks. Lockhart added that the bill preserves the ability of counties to collect property taxes that voters had already approved.
Lockhart told colleagues the measure also requires local Councils of Governments (COGs) and mayors to adopt a prioritization process for projects. "They would meet,…
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