Authorizing the metropolitan area joint powers board to levy a metropolitan transportation area sales tax up to a certain amount on retail sales and uses taking place in the metropolitan area, requiring a metropolitan area special election for approval, establishing a metropolitan transportation area fund, requiring metropolitan counties and cities to enter joint powers agreement for board formation prior to tax imposition, limiting highway spending in the metropolitan transportation district upon tax imposition; authorizing multiple counties outside the metropolitan area acting under joint powers agreements to impose a transportation sales tax of a certain amount within the jurisdiction with exclusive proceeds dedication to transportation projects; appropriating money to the secretary of state for special election costs
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