Maine LD1292: An Act to Codify the Maine Turnpike Authority's Contributions to the Highway Fund with Regard to the Sensible Transportation Pol

What the bill says

An Act to Codify the Maine Turnpike Authority's Contributions to the Highway Fund with Regard to the Sensible Transportation Policy Act" Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 'Resolve, to Establish a Working Group to Create a Plan to Integrate the Maine Turnpike Authority Within the Department of Transportation' Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following: 'Preamble.

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An Act to Codify the Maine Turnpike Authority's Contributions to the Highway Fund with Regard to the Sensible Transportation Policy Act" Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following: 'Resolve, to Establish a Working Group to Create a Plan to Integrate the Maine Turnpike Authority Within the Department of Transportation' Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following: 'Preamble. Whereas, the Maine Turnpike is the State's most important transportation connection to the rest of the United States; and Whereas, the State has forgone hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for Interstate 95 from Kittery to Augusta, as this highway is not eligible for federal subsidy; and Whereas, other states have saved significant resources by eliminating quasigovernmental turnpike authorities with redundant and duplicative staffs, infrastructure and services; and Whereas, the Maine Turnpike Authority has suffered from waste, fraud and abuse of its bonding and spending authority, the costs of which are borne by residents of this State via toll collections by the Maine Turnpike Authority; and Whereas, the tolls on the Maine Turnpike have been raised to pay for unnecessary spending projects when other, higher priority projects elsewhere in the State have been unfunded and Highway Fund revenues have fallen significantly; and Whereas, this resolve establishes a working group …

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