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Bill 652

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                      652
Type of Legislation:              Concurrent Resolution CR
Introducing Body:                 Senate
Introduced Date:                  20010501
Primary Sponsor:                  Wilson
All Sponsors:                     Wilson, Land, Alexander, Anderson, Bauer, 
                                  Branton, Courson, Drummond, Elliott, Fair, 
                                  Ford, Giese, Glover, Gregory, Grooms, Hawkins, 
                                  Hayes, Holland, Hutto, Jackson, Leatherman, 
                                  Leventis, Martin, Matthews, McConnell, McGill, 
                                  Mescher, Moore, O'Dell, Passailaigue, 
                                  Patterson, Peeler, Pinckney, Rankin, Ravenel, 
                                  Reese, Richardson, Ritchie, Ryberg, Saleeby, 
                                  Setzler, Short, J. Verne Smith, Thomas, 
                                  Verdin, Waldrep
Drafted Document Number:          l:\council\bills\nbd\11606htc01.doc
Date Bill Passed both Bodies:     20010529
Subject:                          Highway matching funds requirement for 
                                  federal funds, Congress requests to waive; 
                                  Transportation, Federal Government


                        History

Body    Date      Action Description                     Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  ______________________________________ _______ ____________
Senate  20010529  Received from House
House   20010524  Adopted, returned to Senate
                  with concurrence
------  20010524  Scrivener's error corrected
House   20010523  Committee report: Favorable            24 HIMR
House   20010502  Introduced, referred to Committee      24 HIMR
Senate  20010501  Introduced, adopted, sent to House


              Versions of This Bill
Revised on May 23, 2001 - Word format
Revised on May 24, 2001 - Word format

COMMITTEE REPORT

May 23, 2001

    S. 652

Introduced by Senators Wilson, Land, Alexander, Anderson, Bauer, Branton, Courson, Drummond, Elliott, Fair, Ford, Giese, Glover, Gregory, Grooms, Hawkins, Hayes, Holland, Hutto, Jackson, Leatherman, Leventis, Martin, Matthews, McConnell, McGill, Mescher, Moore, O'Dell, Passailaigue, Patterson, Peeler, Pinckney, Rankin, Ravenel, Reese, Richardson, Ritchie, Ryberg, Saleeby, Setzler, Short, J. Verne Smith, Thomas, Verdin and Waldrep

S. Printed 5/23/01--H.

Read the first time May 2, 2001.

    To whom was referred a Concurrent Resolution (S. 652) memorializing the Congress of the United States to waive the matching funds requirement for federal highway funds available to South Carolina pursuant to the Revenue Aligned Budget Authority Act, etc., respectfully

    That they have duly and carefully considered the same and recommend that the same do pass:

RONALD N. FLEMING for Committee.

MEMORIALIZING THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO WAIVE THE MATCHING FUNDS REQUIREMENT FOR FEDERAL HIGHWAY FUNDS AVAILABLE TO SOUTH CAROLINA PURSUANT TO THE REVENUE ALIGNED BUDGET AUTHORITY ACT (RABA).

Whereas, after years of being a donor state to the Federal Highway Trust Fund, a situation in which only seventy-three cents of each dollar of federal gasoline taxes collected in this State was returned to South Carolina for highway programs, Congress in the TEA-21 and Revenue Aligned Budget Authority (RABA) Acts has taken significant steps to eliminate the funding inequity for donor states; and

Whereas, this improvement has lead to an eighty-four cents for each dollar return in fiscal year 2000 and an anticipated ninety-five cents for each dollar return in fiscal year 2001, a welcome and long overdue recognition of the past inequitable distribution; and

Whereas, to be able to benefit from this additional federal funding, state funds must be used to match the federal funds, which at current Department of Transportation funding levels requires diversion into the match requirement funds desperately needed for highway maintenance; and

Whereas, since the thrust of the RABA legislation was to alleviate the inequity in the distribution formula for federal highway funds, it is appropriate to waive the matching funds requirements that essentially require donor states to "buy" federal highway funds previously lost to them under the inequitable formula. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:

That by this resolution, the General Assembly of South Carolina memorializes the Congress of the United States to waive the matching funds requirement for federal highway funds available to South Carolina pursuant to the Revenue Aligned Budget Authority Act (RABA).

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Federal Highway Administrator, and each member of this state's congressional delegation.

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