First Regular Session

Sixty-second General Assembly

LLS NO. R99-0979.01 Duane Gall

STATE OF COLORADO

BY REPRESENTATIVES Smith, Alexander, Berry, Gagliardi, George, Larson, Lawrence, Miller, Spradley, Taylor, and Young;

also SENATORS Dennis and Thiebaut.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 99-1060

CONCERNING SUPPORT FOR THE "AVIATION INVESTMENT AND REFORM ACT FOR THE 21^ST CENTURY" TO REQUIRE THE AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND TO BE USED FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE.

WHEREAS, Safe, timely, and adequate intrastate air service is essential to the citizens of Colorado; and

WHEREAS, The 1998 Colorado General Assembly Interim Committee on Intrastate Air Service reviewed and studied the need to improve the safety and adequacy of intrastate air service in Colorado; and

WHEREAS, There exists a federal "Airport and Airway Trust Fund", created by section 9502 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, to assist airports and airport air service throughout the United States, including many of the intrastate air service needs in Colorado; and

WHEREAS, The federal "Airport and Airway Trust Fund" is not being used for its intended purposes and historically has been used to mask past federal budget deficits; and

WHEREAS, United States Representative Bud Shuster (R-PA), has introduced H.R. 1000, the "Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21^st Century", which includes "Title IX - Truth in Budgeting", that requires that the federal "Airport and Airway Trust Fund" be used for its intended purposes; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty-second General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:

That the members of the Sixty-second General Assembly call upon Colorado's Congressional Delegation to support H.R.1000, the "Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21^st Century", and specifically "Title IX - Truth in Budgeting", and, upon its passage, to work to provide funds to improve the safety, timeliness, and adequacy of intrastate air service throughout Colorado.

Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be sent to each member of Colorado's Congressional Delegation.