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House passes broad transportation governance package including UTA restructuring and EV fees
Summary
The House passed the fifth substitute to Senate Bill 136, a multi-part transportation governance overhaul that restructures UTA’s board, creates a transportation investment fund (TTIF), and phases in registration fees for electric, plug-in and hybrid vehicles; the bill passed the House 54-14.
Representative Schultz presented the fifth substitute to Senate Bill 136 as a compromise reached by task force stakeholders. The package includes: moving the UTA general-counsel function to the Attorney General’s Office with a transition period; restructuring the UTA board from 16 part-time trustees to a three-member board with an advisory council; creating a Transportation Trust/Investment Fund (TTIF) to support regional projects; authorizing local-option sales-tax allocations with specified distribution rules; and…
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