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House transportation chairman: Roads bill needs year of data before changes
Coomer says there's not enough information to determine bill's success
Christian Coomer
Georgia Rep. Christian Coomer, R-Cartersville
Substantive changes to the transportation tax bill passed by the Georgia General Assembly might not happen in the 40-day legislative session starting Monday. “We’re not going to have reliable data for what House Bill 170 does until we have at least a year of data in hand,” House Transportation Committee Chairman Christian Coomer, R-Cartersville, told a Gainesville audience Thursday. The bill, which went into effect July 1, eliminated the state fuel sales tax at the gas pump and enacted a 26-cent excise tax.