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Utah House approves transportation funding package after heated substitute fight
Summary
The Utah House passed third-substitute HB 362 to create a market-tied fuel tax and local-option sales tax funding streams for roads and transit after members rejected a substitute that would have shifted more control to cities. The bill passed 51-22 and moves to the Senate.
The Utah House on March 9 approved third substitute House Bill 362, a comprehensive transportation funding plan that ties the motor fuel tax to fuel prices, creates a capped market-based mechanism, and authorizes a voter-approved local sales-tax option for cities and counties.
Representative Ken Anderson, the bill sponsor, said the measure aims to address a 30-year statewide transportation needs assessment and to provide steady funding for road maintenance, new capacity and dedicated transit support. "This bill provides sufficient flexibility to address many types of needs and priority projects locally with that local option," Anderson said during…
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