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HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 15

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HJM015....................................................by WAYS AND MEANS
INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS - MOTOR CARRIER WEIGHTS - Requesting that Congress
enact legislation allowing the Idaho Legislature to establish weight limits
up to 129,000 pounds for motor carriers on the federal interstate highway
system.

03/03    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/04    Rpt prt - to 2nd rdg
03/05    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/06    3rd rdg - ADOPTED - 53-13-4
      AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bivens, Black(15),
      Black(23), Boe, Callister, Campbell, Crane, Crow, Deal, Denney,
      Ellsworth, Field(13), Field(20), Gagner, Gould, Henbest, Hornbeck,
      Jaquet, Jones(9), Jones(22), Judd, Kellogg, Kempton, Kendell,
      Kjellander, Lake, Linford, Loertscher, Mader, McKague, Meyer, Miller,
      Mortensen, Newcomb, Reynolds, Ridinger, Sali, Schaefer, Stevenson,
      Stubbs, Taylor, Tilman, Tippets, Trail, Watson, Wheeler, Wood,
      Zimmermann, Mr Speaker
      NAYS -- Bieter, Bruneel, Chase, Cuddy, Hadley, Kunz, Marley,
      Pischner, Pomeroy, Richman, Robison, Stoicheff, Stone
      Absent and excused -- Clark, Geddes, Hansen, Jones(20)
    Floor Sponsor - Kempton
    Title apvd - to House
03/09    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to Transp

Bill Text

HJM015


                                                                        
 ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
Fifty-fourth Legislature                 Second Regular Session - 1998
                                                                        

                             IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                               HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 15

                               BY WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE

 1                                   A JOINT MEMORIAL
 2    TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED  STATES  IN  CONGRESS
 3        ASSEMBLED,  AND  TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
 4        IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

 5        We, your Memorialists, the House of Representatives and the Senate of  the
 6    State  of  Idaho  assembled  in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-fourth
 7    Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:

 8        WHEREAS, Congressional enactment of the 1991 Intermodal Surface  Transpor-
 9    tation  Efficiency  Act  (ISTEA)  did  not allow the Idaho Legislature state's
10    rights authority to adjust motor carrier weight limits on the  federal  inter-
11    state and defense highway system within the borders of Idaho; and
12        WHEREAS,  Montana,  Utah,  Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, South Dakota and Iowa
13    have interstate motor carrier weight limits above those of Idaho; and
14        WHEREAS, the lower Idaho motor carrier weight limit between  these  inter-
15    connecting  states  can  produce  inefficiencies in the movement of commercial
16    traffic into, out of and through Idaho; and
17        WHEREAS, the Idaho Legislature has authorized  weight  limits  to  129,000
18    pounds on selected Idaho highways; and
19        WHEREAS,  the  1991  Intermodal Surface Transportation Act has expired and
20    replacement legislation is under consideration by the Congress.
21        NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second  Regular  Ses-
22    sion  of  the Fifty-fourth Idaho Legislature, the House of Representatives and
23    the Senate concurring therein, that the Congress  enact  legislation  allowing
24    the  Idaho  Legislature  to  exercise state's rights authority in establishing
25    motor carrier weight limits up to 129,000 pounds on the federal interstate and
26    defense highway system within the borders of the state of Idaho.
27        BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief Clerk of the  House  of  Representa-
28    tives  be, and she is hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this
29    Memorial to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Repre-
30    sentatives of Congress, and  the  congressional  delegation  representing  the
31    State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact

    





                         STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                               RS08170
    
    This House Joint Memorial is a "trailer" to House Bill 623aa,aa passed by the House on 
    2127198. The proposed memorial becomes void if House Bill 623aa,aa is held in the Senate.
    
    The purpose of the memorial to Congress and the Idaho Congressional Delegation is to request 
    that Congress allow the Idaho Legislature state's rights authority to establish truck weights up to 
    129,000 pounds on the federal interstate and defense highway system within the boundaries of 
    the state of Idaho.
    
                             FISCAL NOTE
    
    There is no known negative fiscal impact to the general fund, the budget of the Idaho 
    Transportation Department or the budgets of local highway jurisdictions. The authority of the 
    Idaho Legislature to establish truck weight limits up to 129,000 pounds on the federal interstate 
    and defense highway system within the boundaries of the state of Idaho will allow the Idaho 
    Legislature to be directly involved in decisions involving interstate and intrastate transportation 
    efficiencies.
    
    CONTACT: Rep. Jim Kempton
    Phone 332-1146
    
    
    
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