Washington Dedication of Toll Revenue Initiative (2018)

Washington Dedication of Toll Revenue Initiative
Election date November 6, 2018
Topic State and local government budgets, spending and finance and Transportation
Status Not on the ballot
Type State statute	Origin Citizens
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The Washington Dedication of Toll Revenue Initiative was not put on the ballot in Washington as an Initiative to the Legislature, a type of indirect initiated state statute, on November 6, 2018.

The measure would have forbidden revenue in the motor vehicle fund and toll fund from being transferred to other funds. The measure would also require tolls to be used for specific highway purposes.

Tim Eyman proposed multiple versions of the initiative.

Ballot title

The following are the ballot titles for the initiatives:

Initiative Measure No. 893
Initiative Measure No. 893 concerns state highways. This measure would prohibit transfers from motor-vehicle and toll funds; require that bridge or highway tolls be used for certain “project-specific” highway purposes; add toll restrictions; and restrict state-highway lanes for highway purposes. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Initiative Measure No. 908
Initiative Measure No. 908 concerns state highways. This measure would require that bridge and highway tolls be used only for certain project-specific highway purposes, be uniform and eliminate variable toll rates, and limit use of state-highway lanes to highway purposes. Should this measure be enacted into law? Yes [ ] No [ ]

Ballot summary

The following are the ballot summaries for the initiatives:

Initiative Measure No. 893

This measure would prohibit motor vehicle fund and toll fund revenue from being transferred to other funds. It would require certain bridge or highway tolls to be used only for certain “project-specific” highway purposes. It would require tolls to be uniform and consistent and tolls must end when project costs are paid. It would prohibit the use or transfer of state-highway lanes for non-highway purposes when lanes were originally funded by gas taxes or tolls.

Initiative Measure No. 908

This measure would provide that bridge and highway tolls shall be used for project-specific highway purposes which are described as construction and capital improvements of highways, and that tolls shall end at the time the project is paid off. The measure would eliminate variable toll rates. It would prohibit the use or transfer of lanes on state highways for non-highway purposes when the lanes were originally paid for with gas taxes or toll revenue.

Path to the ballot

See also: Laws governing the initiative process in Washington

To make the 2018 ballot, proponents of Initiatives to the Legislature were required to submit at least 259,622 valid signatures by December 29, 2017. If certified, initiatives are sent to the Washington House of Representatives and Washington State Senate for consideration. The legislature chooses whether to enact the measure, send it to the 2018 ballot alone, or send it to the ballot alongside an alternative proposition.

Tim Eyman and M.J. Fagan filed multiple versions of the initiative with the secretary of state's office in 2017. The first version of the initiative received a ballot title and summary on March 15, 2017.

Proponents of the initiative did not submit signatures to the secretary of state's office by the December 29, 2017, deadline and the measure was not put on the ballot.

See also

2018 measures

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• Transportation on the ballot

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