Revised transportation task force bill would hike state sales tax to 4.85%

SALT LAKE CITY — A sweeping transportation bill that overhauls how UTA is managed now would raise the state sales tax by 0.15 percent starting in 2019 to raise $80 million annually for mass transit projects.The latest version of SB136, sponsored by Sen. Wayne Harper, R-Taylorsville, the co-chairman of the Legislature's Transportation Governance and Funding Task Force, is expected to be heard in the Senate Monday."It really needs to pass because it creates the form and the structure for how