HB 1485-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
24feb00.....3425h
2000 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE BILL 1485-FN
AN ACT relative to a certain proposed toll booth.
SPONSORS: Rep. Lozeau, Hills 30; Rep. Calawa, Hills 17; Rep. Konys, Hills 33; Rep. LaRose, Hills 27; Rep. Clegg, Hills 23; Sen. Squires, Dist 12; Sen. Pignatelli, Dist 13
COMMITTEE: Public Works and Highways
This bill provides that a proposed toll booth in Nashua shall not be built.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24feb00.....3425h
00-2017
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to a certain proposed toll booth.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Proposed Toll Booth. Notwithstanding RSA 240 or any other provision of law to the contrary, the department of transportation shall not build the proposed toll booth in Nashua.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
LBAO
00-2017
12/15/99
HB 1485-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to a certain toll booth and establishing a committee to study road tolls along the state's highways.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Transportation indicates this bill will decrease state restricted revenue by $6.3 million in FY 2002, $6.4 million in FY 2003 and $6.5 million in FY 2004, and decrease state restricted expenditures by $3.8 million in FY 2002, $969,700 in FY 2003, and $998,800 in FY 2004. There is no fiscal impact on county and local revenue or expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department determined the fiscal impact of this bill using the assumptions listed below.
The decrease in state restricted revenue will occur in FY 2002, the scheduled opening of the Nashua toll booths. The decrease in revenue from tolls is projected from the Wilbur Smith Associates, New Hampshire Turnpike System Traffic and Toll Revenue Study published in January 1999. The revenue projections in the study were based on a passenger car toll rate of $0.75 at the southbound mainline and $0.50 at both ramp facilities, with proportionally higher truck rates.
The net decrease in state restricted expenditures will occur from the elimination of all costs necessary to collect tolls at Nashua plazas beginning in FY 2002, net of additional costs for the demolition of previously constructed roadway widening to accept the tolls, and anticipated realignment expenditures. The projected reduction is based on historical costs of collecting tolls at similar plazas and on an assumed annual inflation rate of 3%.