Measure on the ballot in the 2016 Multistate 2016 General Election in Mississippi.
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Get StartedA "yes" vote supports prohibiting lawmakers from using transportation-related revenue to fund anything other than transportation-related projects
A "no" vote opposes this amendment
Laying down ground rules for transportation-related revenue could make it easier for legislators to pass new transportation projects, in support of Amendment (Learn more)
If passed, this amendment could help keep funds for bike infrastructure, walkability, and mass transit off the chopping block (for example, in 2015, the Governor proposed cutting one-third of state funding for CTA, Metra and Pace as a cost-savings measure in the overall budget), in support of Amendment (Learn more)
In the past 12 years, millions of dollars in funding have been siphoned from transportation budgets to pay for other bills around the statethis amendment could prevent that from happening going forward, in support of Amendment (Learn more)
Passing this amendment could tie lawmakers' own hands by restricting how they can use and direct revenue, in the middle of a severe budget crisis, in opposition to Amendment (Learn more)
This amendment does not include specific guarantees to fund any bike or mass transit projects or improvements, in opposition to Amendment (Learn more)
If passed, lawmakers would not have the power to change this amendment on their own to include specific provisions or further clarificationsit would go back to the voters or the courts, in opposition to Amendment (Learn more)
Transportation-related revenues arent big enough to cover all transportation projectsthis amendment would not just protect transportation funding, it would take it away from others, in opposition to Amendment (Learn more)
The proposed amendment adds a new Section to the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution that provides revenue generated from transportation related taxes and fees (referred to as “transportation funds”) shall be used exclusively for transportation related purposes. Transportation related taxes and fees include motor fuel taxes, vehicle registration fees, and other taxes and user fees dedicated to public highways, roads, streets, bridges, mass transit (buses and rail), ports, or airports. Under the proposed amendment, transportation funds may be used by the State or local governments only for the following purposes: (1) costs related to administering transportation and vehicle laws, including public safety purposes and the payment of obligations such as bonds; (2) the State or local share necessary to secure federal funds or for local government transportation purposes as authorized by law; (3) the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, maintenance, and operation of highways, mass transit, and railroad crossings; (4) expenses related to workers’ compensation claims for death or injury of transportation agency employees; and (5) to purchase land for building highways or buildings for to be used for highway purposes. This new Section is a limitation on the power of the General Assembly or a unit of local government to use, divert, or transfer transportation funds for a purpose other than transportation. It does not, and is not intended to, impact or change the way in which the State and local governments use sales taxes, including the sales and excise tax on motor fuel, or alter home rule powers granted under this Constitution. It does not seek to change the way in which the State funds programs administered by the Illinois Secretary of State, Illinois Department of Transportation, and operations by the Illinois State Police directly dedicated to the safety of roads, or entities or programs funded by units of local government. Further, the Section does not impact the expenditure of federal funds, which may be spent for any purpose authorized by federal law.
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