DIGEST
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the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
St. Germain HCR No. 166
Establishes the Transportation Funding Task Force to study all issues and disputes related to
potential transportation funding mechanisms to be used by the state and political subdivisions, to
address such issues, to resolve disputes, to develop an approach to determine the best use of
transportation funding mechanisms, to determine when and how these funding mechanisms
should be used, to determine an approval procedure for the use of transportation funding
mechanisms, and to report all such matters to the House and Senate committees on
transportation, highways and public works not later than Jan. 15, 2015, and to terminate not later
than March 31, 2015.
The task force is comprised of:
(1)The president of the Senate or his designee.
(2)The speaker of the House or his designee.
(3)The chairman of the Senate Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
or his designee.
(4)The chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works
or his designee.
(5)The secretary of the Dept. of Transportation and Development.
(6)A representative of La. Good Roads & Transportation Association.
(7)A representative of La. Associated General Contractors.
(8)A representative to be appointed jointly by the American Society of Civil Engineers and
the American Council of Engineering Companies.
Specifies that the members of the task force serve without compensation, except for
reimbursement or per diem they are individually entitled to as members of the organization they
represent. Names the speaker of the House of Representatives or his designee as the chairman
and the president of the Senate or his designee as the vice chairman. Provides that the names of
the members shall be submitted to the chairman of the task force by Aug. 1, 2014, and that the
chairman shall call the first meeting of the task force no later than Sept. 15, 2014.