Signed by Governor Gary Herbert

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that establishes a program that offers free public transit fares during bad air days.

Highlights:

• Specifies “program” as the Trip Reduction Program (Sec. 1).

• Specifies “division” as the Division of Air Quality (Sec. 1).

• Requires the division to administer a 3-year pilot program beginning May 14, 2019, and ending June 30, 2022, that funds the following to address reducing motor vehicle emissions’ contribution to inversions by (Sec. 1).

• Deciding on an alternative transportation and workday;

• Choosing the geographic area subject to alternative transportation and workdays;

• Funding alternative transportation and workdays; and

• Paying the administrative costs of the fund.

• Requires the division to (Sec. 1):

• Work with public and private entities to promote the specified days as alternative transportation and workdays;

• Encourage trip reductions through the use of public transportation, carpooling, teleworking, or other methods; and

• Analyze the impact of these actions. 

• Specifies that the appropriations made to the Trip Reduction Program are nonlapsing (Sec. 4).

• Appropriates $500,000 to the Department of Environmental Quality for the Trip Reduction Program (Sec. 5).

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