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THIRD READING
Bill No: SJR 24
Author: DeSaulnier (D), et al.
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SUBJECT : Federal Highway Trust Fund
SOURCE : Transportation California
DIGEST : This resolution urges the President and the Congress
of the United States to stabilize the federal Highway Trust Fund
by developing a long-term plan to promote adequate federal
Highway Trust Fund revenues, as specified.
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1. A safe, efficient, and reliable surface transportation
network is vital to California's future economic growth,
quality of life, and security.
2. Inadequate investment in California's highway and bridge
infrastructure system is having a dramatic impact on the
citizens of California, causing them to spend too much time
idling on increasingly congested roads and bridges rather
than with their families.
3. The United States Department of Transportation will begin
slowing reimbursements to states for already approved
federal-aid projects as early as July of this year to
preserve a positive balance in the federal Highway Trust
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Fund.
4. The Congressional Budget Office reports the federal Highway
Trust Fund will be unable to support any new highway or
public transportation spending in the 2015 fiscal year absent
congressional action to increase trust fund revenues.
5. Eliminating federal highway and public transportation
investment in one year would threaten hundreds of thousands
of jobs nationwide and severely disrupt California's
long-term transportation improvement plans.
This resolution urges timely action by the President and the
Congress of the United States to stabilize the federal Highway
Trust Fund by developing a long-term plan to promote adequate
federal Highway Trust Fund revenues that achieves all of the
following:
A. Continues an appropriate role for the federal
government in sustaining a viable national
transportation system.
B. Contributes to deficit reductions and economic
growth.
C. Ensures the integrity of the surface transportation
program and resists funding diversions that have been
harmful to public support.
D. Allows the Congress to pass a reauthorization of the
federal highway and public transportation programs
before MAP-21 expires.
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 4/30/14)
Transportation California (source)
California Concrete Contractors Association
California State Association of Counties
JA:d 4/30/14 Senate Floor Analyses
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SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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