Bill Text: AZ HB2433 | 2018 | Fifty-third Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: HURF distribution; counties; cities; towns
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-23 - House read second time [HB2433 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2018-HB2433-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: HURF distribution; counties; cities; towns |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session 2018
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HB 2433 |
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Introduced by Representative Finchem
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AN ACT
amending section 28‑6538, Arizona Revised Statutes; repealing sections 28‑6540 and 28‑6541, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending section 42‑5033.01, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to highway user revenue fund distributions.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 28-6538, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
28-6538. Arizona highway user revenue fund distribution; remaining monies; highway fund distribution; contract authorization; regional transportation plan requirements
A. Each fiscal year the department shall allocate and the state treasurer shall distribute revenues of the Arizona highway user revenue fund remaining after the distribution provided in sections 28‑6534 and 28‑6537 as follows:
1. To the state highway fund, fifty and one‑half per cent percent.
2. To the counties, nineteen per cent percent.
3. To the incorporated cities and towns, twenty‑seven and one‑half per cent.
4. To incorporated cities with a population of three hundred thousand or more persons, three per cent thirty and one-half percent.
B. At least twelve and six‑tenths per cent percent of the revenues allocated each year to the state highway fund pursuant to subsection A of this section shall be further distributed in the following proportions and for the following purposes:
1. Seventy‑five per cent percent of the revenues shall be spent, pledged or accumulated in counties with a population of one million five hundred thousand or more persons for the design, right‑of‑way purchase or construction of controlled access highways that are included in the regional transportation plan of the county and that are accepted into the state highway system either as a state route or as a state highway.
2. Twenty‑five per cent percent of the revenues shall be spent, pledged or accumulated in counties with a population of more than eight hundred thousand but less than one million five hundred thousand persons for:
(a) The design, right‑of‑way purchase or construction of controlled access highways that are included in the regional transportation plan of the county and that are accepted into the state highway system either as a state route or as a state highway or related grade separations of controlled access highways that are included in the regional transportation plan of the county.
(b) Notwithstanding sections 28‑6993 and 28‑6995, the design, right‑of‑way purchase, construction, standard and reduced clearance grade separation, extension and widening of arterial streets and highways that are included in the regional transportation plan of the county.
C. Each fiscal year the state treasurer shall distribute the monies allocated to the counties and incorporated cities and towns pursuant to subsection A of this section as follows:
1. Sixty percent based on the proportion that the number of registered vehicles that are located in the county, city or town bears to the proportion of registered vehicles of all counties, cities or towns in this state.
2. Forty percent based on the proportion that the number of miles of streets or highways that are located in the county, city or town bears to the proportion of miles of streets or highways of all counties, cities or towns in this state.
D. The monies distributed to counties, cities and towns pursuant to subsection A of this section shall be used as follows:
1. At least eighty percent for street and highway construction, repair and maintenance.
2. Not more than twenty percent for administrative costs. The state treasurer shall withhold the monies to be used for administrative costs until the county, city or town has completed the street or highway construction, repair or maintenance project.
C. E. Of the monies allocated to the state highway fund pursuant to subsection A of this section, not more than five million dollars annually shall be spent for the acquisition, construction or improvement of entry roads to state parks or roads in state parks.
D. F. Expenditures for state matching monies for the federal interstate system shall be in addition to the amount provided in subsection B of this section.
E. G. The department may contract with a county, city or town to allow the county, city or town to construct the streets or highways prescribed in subsection B of this section.
F. H. A county described in subsection B of this section and the cities and towns in the county, through their regional planning agency, shall list transportation corridors by priority in the regional transportation plan. The regional transportation plan may also provide a suggested construction schedule for the transportation corridors contained in the plan.
Sec. 2. Repeal
Sections 28-6540 and 28-6541, Arizona Revised Statutes, are repealed.
Sec. 3. Section 42-5033.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
42-5033.01. Use of population estimates for state shared revenues
In lieu of conducting a special census as provided by sections 28‑6532 and 42‑5033:
1. Before May 1 of the sixth year following a federal decennial census, a county may submit to the director of the department of revenue, the director of the department of transportation and the state treasurer the county's population estimate as of the fifth year following the last decennial census as approved by the office of employment and population statistics economic opportunity. On submittal, that population, plus any revisions due to annexations certified by the United States bureau of the census, shall be used for distribution of state shared tax revenues pursuant to sections 28‑5808, 28‑6540, 42‑5029 and 43‑206 to the county beginning July 1 of the sixth year following the last decennial census through June 30 of the year following the next decennial census.
2. Before May 1 of the sixth year following a federal decennial census, a county may contract with the United States bureau of the census to conduct a sample survey that results in a mid‑decade resident population and submit the results of that survey to the director of the department of revenue, the director of the department of transportation and the state treasurer. The survey shall also report total resident population in housing units, total resident population in group quarters, total housing units and total occupied housing units for the county. On submittal, that mid‑decade resident population, plus any revisions due to annexations certified by the United States bureau of the census, shall be used as the base for the calculation of population estimates for the sixth year following the decennial census until the next decennial census by the office of employment and population statistics economic opportunity and for distribution of state shared tax revenues pursuant to sections 28‑5808, 28‑6540, 42‑5029 and 43‑206 to the county beginning July 1 in the sixth year following the decennial census through June 30 of the year following the next decennial census. A county contracting for the survey may not exercise the option provided in paragraph 1 of this subsection.
3. Before May 1 of the sixth year following a federal decennial census, a county may request the director of the department of revenue, the director of the department of transportation and the state treasurer to continue to use the most recent United States decennial census through June 30 of the year following the next decennial census for distribution of state shared tax revenues pursuant to sections 28‑5808, 28‑6540, 42‑5029 and 43‑206.
4. The most recent population estimates of the United States bureau of the census shall be used annually for distribution of state shared tax revenues pursuant to sections 28‑5808, 28‑6540, 42‑5029 and 43‑206 to cities and towns beginning on July 1 in the second year following the decennial census through June 30 of the year following the next decennial census.
