The transportation sales tax so thoroughly rejected by area voters in July 2012 is rearing its head again, this time in a scaled-back way. But whether it gains traction in an election year, with lawmakers hoping for a shorter 2014 General Assembly, remains to be seen. State Sen. Butch Miller, R-Gainesville, who serves as vice chairman of the Senate Transportation Commission, referred to House Bill 195 as a “mini” version of what was commonly called T-SPLOST, or transportation special purpose local option sales tax.