Key Votes
HB 2650 - Transportation Works For Kansas Program - Key Vote
Kansas Key Votes
Stages
- May 25, 2010 Executive Signed
- May 11, 2010 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- May 7, 2010 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 18, 2010 House Bill Passed
- Feb. 4, 2010 Introduced
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Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - May 25, 2010
Title: Transportation Works For Kansas Program
Signed by Governor Mark Parkinson
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (86-38) - May 11, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Transportation Works For Kansas Program
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that expands the budget for transportation works projects.
Highlights:
- Specifies the annual license fee of motor vehicles to begin on January 1, 2013 based on the gross weight of the vehicle (Sec. 4).
- Appropriates $8 million for transportation works projects in each county on July 1 of every year beginning in 2010 and lasting through 2020 (Sec. 24).
- Authorizes the secretary of transportation to issue additional bonds of the state of Kansas for the purpose of providing funds to pay costs relating to construction, reconstruction, maintenance or improvement of highways in Kansas (Sec. 25).
- Specifies that the amount of the bond is to be no more than 18 percent of the state highway fund revenues for that year (Sec. 25).
- Appropriates $11 million from the state highway fund into the coordinated public transportation assistance fund each year beginning in 2013 and lasting through 2020 (Sec. 29).
- Appropriates $5 million from the state highway fund into the rail services improvement fund each year beginning in 2013 and lasting through 2020 (Sec. 30).
- Appropriates $3 million from the state highway fund into the public use general aviation airport development fund through July 1, 2012 and $5 million for the years 2013-2020 (Sec. 31).
Note:
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (25-13) - May 7, 2010 (Key vote)
Title: Transportation Works For Kansas Program
Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to pass a bill that expands the budget for transportation works projects.
Highlights:
- Specifies the annual license fee of motor vehicles to begin on January 1, 2013 based on the gross weight of the vehicle (Sec. 4).
- Appropriates $8 million for transportation works projects in each county on July 1 of every year beginning in 2010 and lasting through 2020 (Sec. 24).
- Authorizes the secretary of transportation to issue additional bonds of the state of Kansas for the purpose of providing funds to pay costs relating to construction, reconstruction, maintenance or improvement of highways in Kansas (Sec. 25).
- Specifies that the amount of the bond is to be no more than 18 percent of the state highway fund revenues for that year (Sec. 25).
- Appropriates $11 million from the state highway fund into the coordinated public transportation assistance fund each year beginning in 2013 and lasting through 2020 (Sec. 29).
- Appropriates $5 million from the state highway fund into the rail services improvement fund each year beginning in 2013 and lasting through 2020 (Sec. 30).
- Appropriates $3 million from the state highway fund into the public use general aviation airport development fund through July 1, 2012 and $5 million for the years 2013-2020 (Sec. 31).
Note:
NOTE: THIS IS A SUBSTITUTE BILL, MEANING THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORIGINAL BILL HAS BEEN REPLACED. THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SUBSTITUTE BILL TEXT DIFFERS FROM THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE TEXT CAN VARY GREATLY.
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (122-0) - Feb. 18, 2010
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Feb. 4, 2010
Title: Transportation Works For Kansas Program
Committee Sponsors
- Federal and State Affairs (Sponsor)
- Transportation (Sponsor)
