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Senate amendment adds general-fund maintenance dollars and constrains road bonding; committee told local match remains
Summary
Senate Finance restored general-fund maintenance dollars for roads and negotiated constrained bonding authority and reporting requirements; presenters said a local-match program remains and the Senate added $65 million for maintenance.
Members asked how the Senate amendment affects roads funding, bonding authority and local matches.
Presenters said the Senate added $60–65 million for maintenance on the Senate side and negotiated bonding guardrails for a larger roads bond package the House had sent to the Senate. The Senate package discussed in the briefing would permit bonding up to $1.5 billion under certain triggers and included constraints such as caps tied to prior bond rates and a requirement that the Department of Transportation list candidate projects in its budget hearing to provide transparency.
A presenter described a requirement that the administration list roads proposed for bonding and that bonding be used only for state roads. Presenters said local-match funding remains in place: the local road-match program remains roughly $95,000,000 when combining motor-vehicle registration excise tax and state match figures provided during the briefing.
Members were told some large local projects seeking state support will present policy choices for the Legislature, and presenters recommended consulting the Senate Finance spreadsheets for the transport section to see line-item and language changes.
Ending: Presenters pointed members to the transportation section of the back-of-the-bill materials for project lists, fund-transfer line items and specific bond triggers.
