On March 5, Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Butchko testified before the Environment and Transportation Committee in opposition to HB 1360 – Environment – Road Salt – Outdoor Storage.
This bill prohibits the outdoor uncovered storage of road salt and requires counties to enforce this prohibition.
HB 1360 is a duplicative and costly unfunded mandate, which, if enacted, will strain capacity and hurt communities.
From MACo Testimony:
As currently drafted, HB 1360 is redundant, administratively burdensome, and financially unsustainable. It imposes an unfunded mandate on county public works departments—entities without regulatory or enforcement authority—requiring them to establish new enforcement programs and hire additional staff. The associated costs would likely range from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, diverting critical resources from essential public infrastructure. This comes at a time when the State is shifting financial burdens of up to $250 million onto counties while federal aid is being reduced or eliminated.
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