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S1399.....................................................by TRANSPORTATION HIGHWAYS/BRIDGES - Amends existing law to provide that expenditure for highway and bridge purposes does not include contracts for the performance of personal services to the district. 02/08 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing 02/11 Rpt prt - to Transp 02/20 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg 02/21 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg 02/22 3rd rdg - PASSED - 30-0-5 AYES -- Andreason, Boatright, Branch(Bartlett), Brandt, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron, Darrington, Davis, Deide, Dunklin, Goedde, Hawkins, Hill, Ingram, Ipsen, Keough, Little, Lodge, Marley, Noh, Richardson, Risch(Risch), Sims, Sorensen, Stegner, Stennett, Thorne, Wheeler, Williams NAYS -- None Absent and excused -- Frasure, Geddes, King-Barrutia, Sandy, Schroeder Floor Sponsor - Boatright Title apvd - to House 02/25 House intro - 1st rdg - to Transp
|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO |||| Fifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2002IN THE SENATE SENATE BILL NO. 1399 BY TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE 1 AN ACT 2 RELATING TO HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES; AMENDING SECTION 40-106, IDAHO CODE, TO 3 REVISE THE DEFINITION OF "EXPENDITURE." 4 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: 5 SECTION 1. That Section 40-106, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby 6 amended to read as follows: 7 40-106. DEFINITIONS -- E. (1) "Erect" means to construct, build, raise, 8 assemble, place, affix, create, paint, draw or in any other way bring into 9 being or establish, but does not include any of the foregoing activities when 10 performed incident to the change of an advertising message or customary main- 11 tenance of a sign. With respect to certain easements held by the state 12 restricting the erection of structures on certain lands, the state of Idaho 13 and the department shall be deemed to have waived such restrictions with 14 regard only to each sign erected prior to October 22, 1965. 15 (2) "Expenditure" means the awarding of a contract, franchise or author- 16 ity to another by a district, and every manner and means whereby the highway 17 district disburses district funds or obligates itself to disburse district 18 funds. "Expenditure" does not include disbursement of district funds to regu- 19 larly employed highway district employees, officials or agents, or for the 20 performance of personal services to the district, or for the acquisition of 21 personal property through a contract that has been competitively bid by the 22 state of Idaho, one of its subdivisions, or an agency of the federal govern- 23 ment. 24 (3) "Expense of the public" means the expenditure of funds for roadway 25 maintenance by any governmental agency, including funds expended by any agency 26 of the federal government, so long as the agency allows public access over the 27 roadway on which the funds were expended and such roadway is not located on 28 federal or state-owned land.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE RS 11958 Grants to highway district the right already given to cities and counties to exclude personal service contracts from the definition of “expenditure”. Will allow highway districts the ability to enter into personal service contracts based upon competence and qualifications rather than lowest bid. A savings to the taxpayers of Ada County. FISCAL IMPACT None to General Fund CONTACTS: Name: Ed Lodge Organization: Ada County Highway District Phone: 342-0777 Name: Stuart 0. Davis; Executive Director Organization: Idaho Association of Highway Districts, Inc. Phone: 859-9378 Statement of Purpose and Fiscal Impact S 1399