‘An Act To Keep Bridges Safe and Roads Passable’
HP1673 LD 2313 |
First Special Session - 123rd Legislature - Text: MS-Word, RTF or PDF |
LR 3635 Item 2 |
|
Bill Tracking | Chamber Status |
Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:
‘An Act To Keep Bridges Safe and Roads Passable’
Amend the bill by striking out all of section 1 and inserting the following:
‘Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §453, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 683, Pt. A, §2 and affected by Pt. B, §5, is amended to read:
Amend the bill in section 2 in subsection 1 in the last blocked paragraph in the first line (page 1, line 34 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: " transferred" the following: ' on a quarterly basis'
Amend the bill in section 3 in paragraph A in the last blocked paragraph in the first line (page 2, line 1 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: " transferred" the following: ' on a quarterly basis'
Amend the bill in section 4 in subsection 1 in the first blocked paragraph in the first line (page 2, line 17 in L.D.) by inserting after the following: " transferred" the following: ' on a quarterly basis'
Amend the bill by inserting after section 6 the following:
‘Sec. 7. Appropriations and allocations. The following appropriations and allocations are made.
TRANSPORTATION, DEPARTMENT OF
Highway and Bridge Capital 0406
Initiative: Allocates additional funds on a one-time basis for the Highway and Bridge Capital program.
HIGHWAY FUND | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
Capital Expenditures
|
$0 | $12,971,000 |
![]() |
![]() |
|
HIGHWAY FUND TOTAL | $0 | $12,971,000 |
Sec. 8. Effective date. This Act takes effect September 1, 2008.’
summary
This amendment, which is the majority report of the Joint Standing Committee on Transportation, provides an effective date of September 1, 2008. The amendment also provides that the $10 fee increases for the registration of noncommercial vehicles, registration of commercial motor vehicles weighing 6,000 pounds or less, certificates of title and vanity plates collected between the effective date of the Act and July 1, 2009 be deposited into the Highway Fund and allocated on a one-time basis for the Highway and Bridge Capital program during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. The amendment also clarifies that, beginning July 1, 2009, the $10 fee increase must be transferred on a quarterly basis by the Treasurer of State to the TransCap Trust Fund. The amendment also adds an appropriations and allocations section.