Bill Text: OR HM2 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging Congress to repeal prohibition on commercial use of Interstate rights-of-way.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HM2 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HM2-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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 LC 1135

                        House Memorial 2

Sponsored by Representative WINGARD (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Urges Congress to repeal prohibition on commercial use of
Interstate rights-of-way.

                         HOUSE MEMORIAL
To the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United
  States of America, in Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the House of Representatives of the
State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled, respectfully
represent as follows:
  Whereas the State of Oregon is currently suffering economic
depression; and
  Whereas that economic depression has resulted in budget
shortfalls for the Department of Transportation; and
  Whereas those budget shortfalls threaten the department's
ability to maintain roadside rest areas in this state; and
  Whereas 23 U.S.C. 111 makes the receipt of federal moneys for
the development of the Interstate System contingent on a state
not entering into an agreement with a commercial establishment to
serve vehicles and travelers at roadside rest areas; and
  Whereas 23 U.S.C. 111 also provides for such agreements if
those agreements were in effect before the passage of 23 U.S.C.
111; and
  Whereas the provision for agreements that were in effect before
the passage of 23 U.S.C. 111 creates an unfair disparity between
those states that had entered into such agreements before the
passage of 23 U.S.C. 111 and those states that had not entered
into such agreements before the passage of 23 U.S.C. 111; and
  Whereas the repeal of 23 U.S.C. 111 would benefit the State of
Oregon by allowing the Department of Transportation to enter into
contracts with commercial establishments whereby those commercial
establishments would bear the cost of maintaining roadside rest
areas; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) The Congress of the United States of America is
respectfully urged to repeal 23 U.S.C. 111.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to each member of the
Oregon Congressional Delegation.
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