Bill Text: OR SB526 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to a study of vehicle registration weight; appropriating money; declaring an emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB526 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SB526-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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LC 2157

                         Senate Bill 526

Sponsored by Senator SHIELDS (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.

  Directs Department of Transportation to apply for grants to
study benefits and costs of increasing allowable registration
weight to greater than 105,500 pounds.
  Creates Vehicle Registration Weight Study Fund. Continuously
appropriates moneys in fund to Department of Transportation for
purpose of study.
  Sunsets study and fund on January 2, 2014.
  Declares emergency, effective on passage.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to a study of vehicle registration weight; appropriating
  money; and declaring an emergency.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) The Department of Transportation shall
undertake a study to examine the following:
  (a) The benefits and costs of increasing the allowable
registration weight for motor vehicles to greater than 105,500
pounds;
  (b) The capability of the highway infrastructure to handle an
increase in the registration weight limits and, if the
infrastructure is not currently capable, whether the benefits of
the increased weight limits will exceed the costs of increased
maintenance, reconstruction or additional highway infrastructure
for motor vehicles with a registration weight greater than
105,500 pounds, and by how much;
  (c) The optimum user fee that should be paid to maintain the
highway infrastructure if the allowable registration weight for
motor vehicles increases to greater than 105,500 pounds; and
  (d) The user fee and gross vehicle weight combination that best
increases the likelihood of coordination and competition between
commercial motor vehicles with a registration weight greater than
105,500 pounds, marine transport and rail for intrastate and
interstate movement of goods.
  (2) The Director of Transportation shall appoint an advisory
committee to assist the department in conducting the study
required by this section. Members of an advisory committee are
volunteers and serve without compensation or payment for actual
or necessary expenses.
  (3) The department shall apply for public or private grants and
may receive and administer funds, including federal funds and
grants, to pay for the costs of conducting the study.
  (4) The director shall appoint members to the advisory
committee no later than 30 days after adjournment sine die of the
regular session of the 2011 Legislative Assembly.
  (5) The department shall report the results of the study to the
to the interim legislative committees related to transportation
no later than October 1, 2012, or at such times at the committees
may designate.
  (6) As used in this section, 'registration weight' has the
meaning given that term in ORS 801.420. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + (1) The Vehicle Registration Weight Study Fund
is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from
the General Fund. All moneys in the Vehicle Registration Weight
Study Fund are continuously appropriated to the Department of
Transportation for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
section 1 of this 2011 Act.
  (2) All moneys received under this section 1 of this 2011 Act
shall be deposited into the Vehicle Registration Weight Study
Fund to be expended by the department for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of section 1 of this 2011 Act. + }
  SECTION 3.  { + (1) Sections 1 and 2 of this 2011 Act are
repealed on January 2, 2014.
  (2) Any moneys remaining in the Vehicle Registration Weight
Study Fund on January 2, 2014, that are unexpended, unobligated
and not subject to any conditions shall revert to the General
Fund. + }
  SECTION 4.  { + This 2011 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency
is declared to exist, and this 2011 Act takes effect on its
passage. + }
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