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SJM109.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
TRANSIT FUNDING - Stating findings of the Legislature; commending Congress
for its efforts to increase transit funding for Idaho; requesting Congress
to extend the concept of the federal lands upward match adjustment into
additional areas in the transit program; and requesting Congress to adopt
funding and formula features that will do the most to enable Idaho and its
communities to more fully respond to pressing transit needs.
03/02 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/03 Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
03/04 10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
Floor Sponsor - Ingram
Title apvd - to House
03/05 House intro - 1st rdg - to Transp
03/11 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/12 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/15 3rd rdg - ADOPTED - 57-3-10
AYES -- Andersen, Barraclough, Bauer, Bayer, Black, Block, Boe, Bolz,
Bradford, Campbell, Cannon, Clark, Collins, Cuddy, Deal, Denney,
Douglas, Eberle, Edmunson, Ellsworth, Eskridge, Field(18), Field(23),
Garrett, Harwood, Henbest, Jones, Kellogg, Kulczyk, Lake, Langford,
Langhorst, Martinez, McGeachin, Meyer, Miller, Mitchell, Naccarato,
Nielsen, Pasley-Stuart, Ring, Ringo, Roberts, Robison, Rydalch, Sali,
Sayler, Schaefer, Shepherd, Shirley, Skippen, Smith(30), Smith(24),
Smylie, Snodgrass, Trail, Wills
NAYS -- Barrett, McKague, Wood
Absent and excused -- Bedke, Bell, Crow, Gagner, Jaquet, Moyle,
Raybould, Ridinger, Stevenson, Mr. Speaker
Floor Sponsor - Cannon
Title apvd - To Senate
03/16 To enrol
03/17 Rpt enrol - Pres signed
03/18 Sp signed
03/19 To Secretary of State
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session - 2004
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 109
BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
1 A JOINT MEMORIAL
2 TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTA-
3 TIVES OF THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
4 DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED
5 STATES.
6 We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
7 State of Idaho assembled in the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-seventh
8 Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:
9 WHEREAS, Idaho is a rapidly growing state with large, low-population den-
10 sity areas that need additional federal support for transit services; and
11 WHEREAS, providing rural transit services in Idaho and other rural states
12 is a challenge due to long trip distances and the allocation of transit costs
13 among relatively fewer riders; and
14 WHEREAS, over 62% of the lands in the state of Idaho are under federal
15 ownership, and cannot be taxed or developed by the state, thereby reducing the
16 ability of the state to raise additional tax revenues; and
17 WHEREAS, under Section 120 of Title 23, United States Code on federal
18 share payable, federal law has compensated for this reduced ability to raise
19 tax revenues by providing a "sliding scale" upward adjustment in the federal
20 share of project costs in the highway program in those states with a high per-
21 centage of federal lands, but no such adjustment has been applied to the tran-
22 sit program to date; and
23 WHEREAS, the United States Congress is currently in the process of
24 reauthorizing the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21)
25 which will set the surface transportation programs for highways and transit
26 for the next six years; and
27 WHEREAS, reauthorization legislation pending in Congress would,
28 commendably, apply the upward adjustment to certain areas of the federal tran-
29 sit program, resulting in an increased percentage of federal transit program
30 formula dollars being distributed to rural states and their communities.
31 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second Regular Ses-
32 sion of the Fifty-seventh Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Rep-
33 resentatives concurring therein, that the Congress be commended for its
34 efforts to date to increase transit funding for Idaho and to apply a higher
35 federal match to transit projects due to the presence of significant federal
36 lands in a state.
37 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Congress, as it completes highway and
38 transit reauthorization legislation, should extend the concept of the federal
39 lands upward match adjustment into additional areas in the transit program and
40 ensure that such match adjustment takes into account all forms of federal
41 lands to the same extent as is done under the highway program.
42 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Congress should adopt funding and formula
43 features that will do the most to enable Idaho and its communities to more
44 fully respond to pressing transit needs.
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1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
2 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
3 ident of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
4 House of Representatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation repre-
5 senting the State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.