Bill Text: AZ HCM2004 | 2012 | Fiftieth Legislature 2nd Regular | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Transportation funding; restore to states

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-03-20 - Transmitted to Secretary Of State [HCM2004 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2012-HCM2004-Enrolled.html

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House Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fiftieth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2012

 

 

HOUSE CONCURRENT MEMORIAL 2004

 

 

 

A CONCURRENT memorial

 

urging the united states congress to enact legislation to allow states to manage gas tax dollars without collection and disbursement by the federal government.

 

 

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To the Congress of the United States and the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation:

Your memorialist respectfully represents:

Whereas, the United States Department of Transportation was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and the department's first official day of operation was April 1, 1967; and

Whereas, the mission of the department is to "serve the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible and convenient transportation system that meets our vital national interests and enhances the quality of life of the American people, today and into the future"; and

Whereas, the main mission of the department has largely been fulfilled by the completion of the federal interstate highway system; and

Whereas, state and local governments are faced with difficult decisions regarding local transportation needs on a continuing and ever-increasing basis; and

Whereas, the federal motor fuel taxes charged to the citizens of Arizona are needlessly sent to the federal government before being returned to the state government; and

Whereas, federal restrictions, mandates and spending requirements prevent the citizens of Arizona from setting their own transportation priorities.

Wherefore your memorialist, the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring, prays:

1.  That the United States Congress enact legislation making monies collected under the federal gas tax immediately available to the individual states to fund their transportation needs.

2.  That the United States Congress enact legislation to cease the collection of motor fuel taxes in Arizona so that this state can collect and distribute the taxes without the delay caused by federal collection and disbursement.

3.  That the Secretary of State of the State of Arizona transmit copies of this Memorial to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation and each Member of Congress from the State of Arizona.

 

 

 

 

PASSED BY THE HOUSE FEBRUARY 29, 2012.

 

PASSED BY THE SENATE MARCH 20, 2012.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCH 20, 2012.