Cory Gardner voted Nay (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Highway User Tax Fund Diversion to Licensing Services Fund
Signed by Governor Bill Ritter, Jr.
NOTE: THE LEGISLATURE PROVIDES ITS MEMBERS WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO BOTH VOTE ON WHETHER TO CONCUR WITH THE OPPOSING CHAMBER'S AMENDMENTS AND, IF THE CONCURRENCE VOTE SUCCEEDS, VOTE TO REPASS THE BILL AFTER THE AMENDMENTS ARE INCORPORATED. THIS IS A VOTE ON REPASSAGE OF THE BILL AFTER THE MEMBERS CONCURRED WITH THE OPPOSING CHAMBER'S AMENDMENTS.
Title: Highway User Tax Fund Diversion to Licensing Services Fund
Vote to pass a bill that repeals provisions that credit portions of licensing fees to the highway users tax fund and instead credits the amounts to the licensing services cash fund.
-Specifies that instruction permit fees be credited to the licensing services cash fund (Sec. 1). -Specifies that the fee for driver's license exams be credited to the licensing services cash fund (Sec. 2). -Specifies that driver's license issuing fees be credited to the licensing services cash fund (Sec. 3). -Specifies that at the end of each fiscal year the state treasurer shall credit the money in the licensing services cash fund, less 16.5 percent of the amount appropriated from the fund for such operation in the fiscal year, to the highway users tax fund (Sec. 4). -Specifies that replacement license fees be credited to the licensing services cash fund (Sec. 5). -Specifies that commercial driver's licensing fees be credited to the licensing services cash fund (Sec. 6). -Appropriates $1.9 million from the highway users tax fund and $4.9 million from the licensing services cash fund to the executive director's office cash funds instead of being sourced from the general fund (Sec. 9). -Decreases the general fund appropriation to the Division of Motor Vehicles, Driver and Vehicle Services for personal services by $9.4 million along with other appropriations, which will now be sourced from the cash funds appropriation (Sec. 9).
Title: Highway User Tax Fund Diversion to Licensing Services Fund