Fifty-third Legislature                             Transportation and Technology

Second Regular Session                                                  S.B. 1065

 

PROPOSED AMENDMENT

SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B. 1065

(Reference to printed bill)

 

 


Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert:

"Section 1.  Section 28-5474, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-5474.  Axle fees; commercial vehicles; border crossing; definition

A.  The director may adopt rules establishing a fee based on the number of axles attached to a foreign commercial vehicle or a foreign commercial vehicle combination that is imposed on nonresidents operating or causing the operation of a foreign commercial vehicle or foreign a commercial vehicle combination that enters this state by crossing the border between this state and the republic of Mexico in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise.

B.  If the director establishes a fee by rule pursuant to this section, the fee shall apply to a nonresident operating or causing the operation of a foreign vehicle or foreign vehicle combination and who is required to register the foreign vehicle or foreign vehicle combination pursuant to section 28‑2321 or who is responsible for payment of any fees required by sections 28‑2324, 28‑2325, 28‑5739, 28‑5763 or 28‑5864.

C.  B.  Beginning July 1, 2018, the director shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, fees collected by rules established pursuant to this section in the safety enforcement and transportation infrastructure state highway fund established by section 28‑6547 28‑6991.

D.  C.  For the purposes of this section, "foreign commercial vehicle" or "foreign commercial vehicle combination" means a truck or truck tractor and semitrailer and any trailer that it tows that is registered in a foreign country or jurisdiction of a foreign country and enters this state by crossing the border between this state and the republic of Mexico in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.  Section 28-6547, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-6547.  Safety enforcement and transportation infrastructure fund; subaccounts; exemption from lapsing

A.  The safety enforcement and transportation infrastructure fund is established.  The fund consists of monies deposited pursuant to sections 28‑2321, 28‑2324, 28‑2325, 28‑5474, 28‑5739, 28‑5863 and 28‑5864.  The department shall administer the fund.

B.  The department of transportation subaccount is established within the safety enforcement and transportation infrastructure fund consisting of fifty‑five percent of the monies that are deposited into the fund each month.  The department of public safety subaccount is established within the safety enforcement and transportation infrastructure fund consisting of forty‑five percent of the monies that are deposited into the fund each month.  Monies in the subaccounts are subject to legislative appropriation.

C.  Monies in the fund shall be spent on the following:

1.  Enforcement of vehicle safety requirements by the department of public safety and the department of transportation within twenty‑five miles of the border between Arizona and Mexico.

2.  Costs related to the procurement of electronic equipment, automated systems or improvements to existing electronic equipment or automated systems for relieving vehicle congestion at ports of entry on the border between this state and Mexico.

3.  Construction, maintenance and upgrades of transportation facilities, including roads, streets and highways, approved by the board within twenty‑five miles of the border between Arizona and Mexico.

4.  As approved by the board, construction and maintenance of transportation facilities in the CANAMEX high priority corridor as defined in section 332 of the national highway system designation act of 1995 (P.L. 104‑59; 109 Stat. 596‑597).

5.  Activities of the department that include the collection of transportation and trade data in the United States and Mexico for the purposes of constructing transportation facilities, improving public safety, improving truck processing time and relieving congestion at ports of entry on the border between Arizona and Mexico.  The department may enter into an agreement with the Arizona-Mexico commission and provide funding to the commission for the purposes contained in this paragraph.

6.  A commitment or investment necessary for the department or another agency of this state to obtain federal monies that are designated for expenditure pursuant to this section.

D.  If the department of transportation determines that activities proposed by the Arizona department of homeland security may improve traffic safety in this state, the department of transportation may enter into an agreement with, and provide, subject to legislative appropriation, department of transportation subaccount monies to the Arizona department of homeland security for the purposes contained in this subsection.

E.  On notice from the department, the state treasurer shall invest and divest monies in the fund as provided by section 35‑313, and monies earned from investment shall be credited to the fund.

F.  Monies in the fund are exempt from the provisions of section 35‑190 relating to lapsing of appropriations. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3.  Section 28-6991, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-6991.  State highway fund; sources

The state highway fund is established that consists of:

1.  Monies distributed from the Arizona highway user revenue fund pursuant to chapter 18 of this title.

2.  Monies appropriated by the legislature.

3.  Monies received from donations for the construction, improvement or maintenance of state highways or bridges.  These monies shall be credited to a special account and shall be spent only for the purpose indicated by the donor.

4.  Monies received from counties under cooperative agreements, including proceeds from bond issues.  The state treasurer shall deposit these monies to the credit of the fund in a special account on delivery to the treasurer of a concise written agreement between the department and the county stating the purposes for which the monies are surrendered by the county, and these monies shall be spent only as stated in the agreement.

5.  Monies received from the United States under an act of Congress to provide aid for the construction of rural post roads, but monies received on projects for which the monies necessary to be provided by this state are wholly derived from sources mentioned in paragraphs 2 and 3 of this section shall be allotted by the department and deposited by the state treasurer in the special account within the fund established for each project.  On completion of the project, on the satisfaction and discharge in full of all obligations of any kind created and on request of the department, the treasurer shall transfer the unexpended balance in the special account for the project into the state highway fund, and the unexpended balance and any further federal aid thereafter received on account of the project may be spent under the general provisions of this title.

6.  Monies in the custody of an officer or agent of this state from any source that is to be used for the construction, improvement or maintenance of state highways or bridges.

7.  Monies deposited in the state general fund and arising from the disposal of state personal property belonging to the department.

8.  Receipts from the sale or disposal of any or all other property held by the department and purchased with state highway monies.

9.  Monies generated pursuant to section 28‑410.

10.  Monies distributed pursuant to section 28‑5808, subsection B, paragraph 2, subdivision (d).

11.  Monies deposited pursuant to sections 28‑1143, 28‑2353 and 28‑3003.

12.  Except as provided in section 28‑5101, the following monies:

(a)  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑2206 and section 28‑5808, subsection B, paragraph 2, subdivision (e).

(b)  One dollar of each registration fee and one dollar of each title fee collected pursuant to section 28‑2003.

(c)  Two dollars of each late registration penalty collected by the director pursuant to section 28‑2162.

(d)  The air quality compliance fee collected pursuant to section 49‑542.

(e)  The special plate administration fees collected pursuant to sections 28‑2404, 28‑2407, 28‑2412 through 28‑2416, 28‑2416.01, 28‑2417 through 28‑2462 and 28‑2514.

(f)  Monies collected pursuant to sections 28‑372, 28‑2155 and 28‑2156 if the director is the registering officer.

13.  Monies deposited pursuant to chapter 5, article 5 of this title.

14.  Donations received pursuant to section 28‑2269.

15.  Dealer and registration monies collected pursuant to section 28‑4304.

16.  Abandoned vehicle administration monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑4804.

17.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑710, subsection D, paragraph 2.

18.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑2065.

19.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑7311.

20.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑7059.

21.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑1105.

22.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑2448, subsection D.

23.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑3415.

24.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑3002, subsection A, paragraph 14.

25.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑7316.

26.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑4302.

27.  Monies deposited pursuant to section 28‑5474. END_STATUTE

Sec. 4.  Section 28-6993, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-6993.  State highway fund; authorized uses

A.  Except as provided in subsection B of this section and section 28‑6538, the state highway fund shall be used for any of the following purposes in strict conformity with and subject to the budget as provided by this section and by sections 28‑6997 through 28‑7003:

1.  To pay salaries, wages, necessary travel expenses and other expenses of officers and employees of the department and the incidental office expenses, including telegraph, telephone, postal and express charges and printing, stationery and advertising expenses.

2.  To pay for both:

(a)  Equipment, supplies, machines, tools, department offices and laboratories established by the department.

(b)  The construction and repair of buildings or yards of the department.

3.  To pay the cost of both:

(a)  Engineering, construction, improvement and maintenance of state highways and parts of highways forming state routes.

(b)  Highways under cooperative agreements with the United States that are entered into pursuant to this chapter and an act of Congress providing for the construction of rural post roads.

4.  To pay land damages incurred by reason of establishing, opening, altering, relocating, widening or abandoning portions of a state route or state highway.

5.  To reimburse the department revolving account.

6.  To pay premiums on authorized indemnity bonds and on compensation insurance under the workers' compensation act.

7.  To defray lawful expenses and costs required to administer and carry out the intent, purposes and provisions of this title, including repayment of obligations entered into pursuant to this title, payment of interest on obligations entered into pursuant to this title, repayment of loans and other financial assistance, including repayment of advances and interest on advances made to the department pursuant to section 28‑7677, and payment of all other obligations and expenses of the board and department pursuant to chapter 21 of this title.

8.  To pay lawful bills and charges incurred by the state engineer.

9.  To acquire, construct or improve entry roads to state parks or roads within state parks.

10.  To acquire, construct or improve entry roads to state prisons.

11.  To pay the cost of relocating a utility facility pursuant to section 28‑7156.

12.  For the purposes provided in subsections C, D and E of this section and sections 28‑1143, 28‑2353 and 28‑3003.

13.  To pay the cost of issuing an Arizona centennial special plate pursuant to section 28‑2448.

B.  For each fiscal year, the department of transportation shall allocate and transfer monies in the state highway fund to the department of public safety for funding a portion of highway patrol costs in eight installments in each of the first eight months of a fiscal year that do not exceed ten million dollars.

C.  Subject to legislative appropriation, the department may use the monies in the state highway fund as prescribed in section 28‑6991, paragraph 12 to carry out the duties imposed by this title for registration or titling of vehicles, to operate joint title, registration and driver licensing offices, to cover the administrative costs of issuing the air quality compliance sticker, modifying the year validating tab and issuing the windshield sticker and to cover expenses and costs in issuing special plates pursuant to sections 28‑2404, 28‑2407, 28‑2412 through 28‑2462 and 28‑2514.

D.  The department shall use monies deposited in the state highway fund pursuant to chapter 5, article 5 of this title only as prescribed by that article.

E.  Monies deposited in the state highway fund pursuant to section 28‑2269 shall be used only as prescribed by that section.

F.  Monies deposited in the state highway fund pursuant to section 28‑710, subsection D, paragraph 2 shall only be used for state highway work zone traffic control devices.

G.  The department may exchange monies distributed to the state highway fund pursuant to section 28‑6538, subsection A, paragraph 1 for local government surface transportation program federal monies suballocated to councils of government and metropolitan planning organizations if the local government scheduled to receive the federal monies concurs.  An exchange of state highway fund monies pursuant to this subsection shall be in an amount that is at least equal to ninety percent of the federal obligation authority that exists in the project for which the exchange is proposed.

H.  The department shall use monies deposited in the state highway fund pursuant to sections 28‑1105 and 28‑5474 only for a transportation facility and shall spend the monies proportionally based on the amount of total monies collected through the international port of entry that a commercial vehicle or a commercial vehicle combination uses to enter this state.  The transportation facility must be located as follows:

1.  For a county with a population of more than one hundred ninety thousand persons, within thirty drivable miles of the international port of entry that a commercial vehicle or a commercial vehicle combination uses to enter this state.

2.  For a county with a population of one hundred ninety thousand persons or less, within twenty drivable miles of the international port of entry that a commercial vehicle or a commercial vehicle combination uses to enter this state.

I.  for the purposes of subsection H of this section:

1.  "Commercial vehicle" or "commercial vehicle combination" means a truck or truck tractor and semitrailer and any trailer that it tows that enters this state by crossing the border between this state and Mexico in the furtherance of a commercial enterprise.

2.  "transportation facility" means a highway or a state route or a county, city or town road that is used by a commercial vehicle or a commercial vehicle combination for which an axle fee is paid pursuant to section 28‑5474.END_STATUTE

Sec. 5.  Retroactivity

Sections 28‑5474 and 28‑6547, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, apply retroactively to from and after June 30, 2018."

Amend title to conform


 

 

KATE BROPHY MCGEE

 

1065BROPHY MCGEE

02/09/2018

02:46 PM

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