*** DRAFT RESOLUTION ON HIGHWAY FUNDING***
Recommendation to the XXXXXXXX Congressional Delegation
to enact a multi-year, adequately funded Highway Bill Now!
Whereas, a safe, efficient, and reliable highway system is vital to XXXXXX's future
economic growth, quality of life, and security;
Whereas, the Federal-aid highway program is financed by user fees and is a pay-asyou-go program that does not add to the federal budget deficit;
Whereas, the current extension of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century
Act (“MAP-21” / P.L. 112-141) which funds the Federal-aid highway program will expire
on May 31, 2015;
Whereas, MAP-21 was not enacted until nearly 3-years and ten extensions after its
precursor legislation, SAFETEA-LU, had expired;
Whereas, the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) has gone into deficit in the past, requiring
general fund revenues to prevent sharp decreases in funding to states;
Whereas, XX percent of XXXXXX 's bridges are structurally deficient or functionally
obsolete;
Whereas, XX percent of XXXXXX’s major urban roads are congested;
Whereas, poor road conditions cost XXXXXX's motorists $XXX million a year in extra
vehicle repairs and operating costs;
Whereas, vehicle travel on XXXXXX’s highways increased by XX percent from 1990 to
20XX and XXXXXX’s population grew by XX percent during that time;
Whereas, XX percent of the $XXX billion worth of commodities delivered annually to and
from sites in XXXXXX are transported on XXXXXX's highways;
Whereas, a total of X,XXX people died on XXXXXX's highways from 2000 to 20XX;
Whereas, inadequate investment in XXXXXX's highway and bridge infrastructure system
is having a dramatic impact on the citizens of XXXXXX resulting in less time spent with
families due to congested roads, wasted fuel due to poor pavement conditions and
congested roads, and increasingly unsafe road conditions; and
Whereas, devolution of the federal highway program to the states would have a
devastating impact upon XXXXXX, cutting funding to levels that would no longer sustain
the system and would require a XXX% tax increase at the state level to bridge the
unfunded mandate gap left by Congress.
Therefore, be it resolved that the (State Legislative Body Name) urges the members of
the XXXXXX congressional delegation to push for and the Congress to enact a multiyear, surface transportation reauthorization bill that achieves the following:
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Authorizes a new surface transportation program based on the requirements of an
expanding population, growing congestion, increasing freight traffic and to assure
Americans the freedom of mobility they demand;
Increases investment in surface transportation infrastructure essential to meet the
funding shortfall and grow the multi-year program to meet the requirements of the
system into the future;
Assures the integrity of the program, and resists diversions that have been harmful to
public support; and
Creates flexibility in the program to allow innovative funding mechanisms to enhance
the user-fee based program.