A bill to tweak last year’s massive restructuring of the transportation system is nearing the finish line in the Legislature.
SB72 will do everything from dump a controversial new name for the Utah Transit Authority to allow owners of clean-fuel cars to lower their new higher registration fees by volunteering to be guinea pigs for a new tax on the miles they drive.
The House passed SB72 unanimously Tuesday. The Senate-passed bill now goes to the full House for final consideration.
Last year, the Legislature passed a bill that vastly restructured transportation taxes and the scandal-tainted UTA, including replacing its part-time, 16-member board with a new full-time, three-member commission seen as better able to oversee it.