Facing ‘decaying infrastructure,’’ Transportation Committee moves toward hiking gas tax

As posted by Arizona Capitol Times

By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times

State lawmakers took the first steps this afternoon to asking voters to hike what they pay every time they fill up their cars and trucks.

On a 7-1 margin the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a measure to place a dime-a-gallon hike in the state’s gasoline tax on the 2018 ballot. If approved, it would be the first hike in the current 18 cent tax since 1991.

HCR 2011 would also impose a similar increase on the 26-cent tax paid by heavy duty diesel trucks.

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