Oct 21, 2008 | Legislative
Official Ballot Proposal Language Proposal 1 A LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE TO PERMIT THE USE AND CULTIVATION OF MARIJUANA FOR SPECIFIED MEDICAL CONDITIONSThe proposed law would: Permit physician approved use of marijuana by registered patients with debilitating medical...
Oct 1, 2008 | Legislative
Senate and Republican legislators voted Wednesday to end the deadlock over the 2009 transportation budget, one week before the beginning of the fiscal year. The legislative agreement broke a logjam and averted a departmental shutdown and closure of MDOT construction...
Sep 19, 2008 | Legislative
MITA has been working diligently in recent weeks to prepare state legislators for a mound of work when they return from the fall elections. Because of plummeting state gas tax revenues and the resulting loss of federal matching funds, MITA has been pushing...
Sep 11, 2008 | Legislative
The Senate approved legislation yesterday to transfer $8 billion to restore solvency to the federal Highway Trust Fund. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters had announced that federal-aid payments to the states would be withheld because of a shortage of funds....
Sep 11, 2008 | Legislative
As an advocate for safer work zones, MITA helped craft and introduce legislation cutting down on the number of construction zone signs and also giving flaggers legal authority to override a traffic control device. The bills were passed out of Senate Committee this...