Staff Analysis of the Legislation
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This resolution creates the Senate Alternatives to Transportation Funding Study Committee and makes several key points: (1) transportation is critical to state economic competitiveness; (2) new sources and methods of funding transportation projects are needed; (3) numerous tax credits have been enacted based upon the asserted need to attract or retain business and these need to be identified to determine the dollar amount they are removing from the general fund and how much of that dollar amount could be appropriated to transportation; and (4) authorities such as the Georgia Ports Authority show how this is a good operational model for running a transportation hub and this model should be examined as a way of improving the Atlanta airport by converting its management to an authority. |
