Indiana House Bill 1034 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 7 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-23 - Representative Porter added as coauthor.
Pending: House Roads and Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Specifies that a county or city council (other than the city-county council of Marion County) may elect by ordinance to provide revenue to a public transportation corporation from the city's or the county's distributive share of county adjusted gross income taxes, county option income taxes, or county economic development income taxes. Authorizes the establishment of a metropolitan transit district by specified eligible counties through local public questions and provides for an appointed board to govern the metropolitan transit district. Provides that certain outlying townships of eligible counties may each separately determine whether to be included in the metropolitan transit district through local public questions in the outlying townships. Authorizes the metropolitan transit district to: (1) construct or acquire any public transportation facility; (2) provide public transportation service by operating public transportation facilities; and (3) issue bonds and otherwise incur indebtedness. Authorizes the Indiana finance authority to issue bonds and use the proceeds to acquire any obligations issued by a metropolitan transit district. Provides that in a county that has approved the local public question, an additional county economic development income tax (CEDIT) rate of not more than 0.3% may be imposed in that part of the county included in the metropolitan transit district to pay the county's contribution to the funding of the metropolitan transit district. Specifies that the CEDIT rate may not exceed the recommended tax.

Public mass transportation.

Rep. Gerald Torr [R]

Rep. Cherrish Pryor [D]

Rep. Cindy Kirchhofer [R]

Rep. Gregory Porter [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-23	House	Representative Porter added as coauthor.
2014-01-23	House	Representative Kirchhofer added as coauthor.
2014-01-23	House	Representative Porter added as coauthor.
2014-01-07	House	First Reading: Referred to Roads and Transportation
2014-01-07	House	Authored by Representative Torr

Type	Source
Summary	https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/bills/house/1034/details
Text	http://iga.in.gov/static-documents/c/b/a/c/cbac4e0d/HB1034.01.INTR.pdf