Bill Text: GA HR206 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Transportation Trust Fund; create - CA
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 7)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-24 - Senate Conference Committee Appointed [HR206 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-HR206-Comm_Sub.html
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The
Senate Finance Committee offered the following substitute to HR
206:
A
RESOLUTION
Proposing
an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide for a 1 percent regional local
option sales and use tax for a specified period of time to fund specific
transportation projects; to provide for procedures, conditions, and
limitations; to provide for other matters relative to the foregoing; to provide
for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for
other purposes.
BE
IT RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
The
Constitution is amended by adding at the end of Article IX, Section IV a new
Paragraph V to read as follows:
"Paragraph
V.
Regional
Local Option Transportation
Tax. (a) The
General Assembly is authorized to provide by general law for a regional local
option transportation sales and use tax of up to 1 percent to fund
transportation projects. Such general law shall provide for the manner and
method of imposing the tax and shall provide for all of the
following:
(1)
The duration and exemptions of the tax levied under this Paragraph;
(2)
The levy of a tax under this Paragraph by the county governing authority
participating in a special transportation district if such tax is approved in a
referendum;
(3)
The qualifying transportation projects to be funded by the tax levied under this
Paragraph, including but not limited to roads, freight and passenger rail,
bridges, airports, public transit, buses, seaports, and all accompanying
infrastructure and services;
(4)
The management and expenditure of the funds collected under any tax levied
pursuant to this Paragraph;
(5)
The creation of special transportation districts;
(6)
Prior to calling for any referendum to levy the tax under this Paragraph, the
developing and publishing of a list of transportation projects to be funded
within the special transportation district;
(7)
The requirement that all of the funds collected pursuant to the levy of the tax
under this Paragraph shall be spent on transportation projects in the special
transportation district from which they were collected; and
(8)
The items, if any, that shall be exempt from any tax levied under this
Paragraph.
(b)
Proceeds from any tax levied under this Paragraph shall not be subject to the
provisions of Article III, Section IX, Paragraph IV(c), relative to the lapsing
of funds, or to any allocation or balancing of state and federal funds otherwise
required by general law.
(c)
The tax levied pursuant to this Paragraph shall not be subject to and shall not
count toward any general law limitation regarding the maximum amount of local
sales and use taxes which may be levied in any jurisdiction in this
state."
SECTION
2.
The
above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be published and submitted as
provided in Article X, Section I, Paragraph II of the Constitution. The ballot
submitting the above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon
the following:
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"( ) YES
( ) NO
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Shall
the Constitution of Georgia be amended so as to allow a regional local option
sales tax of up to 1 percent to be used to fund transportation projects within
the region from which the funds are collected?"
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All
persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote
"Yes." All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment
shall vote "No." If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said
Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of
this state.
