{"id":9449,"date":"2013-12-11T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2013-12-11T10:36:59","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T14:36:59","slug":"digital-billboard-legislation-passes-senate-transportation-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/12\/11\/digital-billboard-legislation-passes-senate-transportation-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Billboard Legislation Passes Senate Transportation Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Transportation committee passed out HB 4629 yesterday, a bill to regulate digital billboards.\u00a0 This bill was created in most part to deal with issues that were presented to MDOT from a federal audit done on the Highway Advertising Act. If these issues (definition for digital billboards, definition for non-conforming billboard, etc) are not address, the state will lose a portion of their federal transportation funding.\u00a0 This bill would allow a local unit of government to create a more stringent policy than that at the state level if they so choose to.\u00a0 We also asked that the word \u201coperation\u201d be added into what can be regulated by the local unit of government to ensure that digital billboards would be encompassed in that definition.<\/p>\n<p>There were many amendments made (many of them dealing with MDOT) to the legislation but the local control piece and the addition of \u201coperation\u201d remained a part of the finished product leaving committee.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now moves onto the full Senate for a vote.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nikki Brown is a legislative associate for the League handling economic development and land use issues.\u00a0 She can be reached at nbrown@mml.org or 517-908-0305.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Transportation committee passed out HB 4629 yesterday, a bill to regulate digital billboards.\u00a0 This bill was created in most part to deal with issues that were presented to MDOT from a federal audit done on the Highway Advertising Act. 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