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Appropriations committee endorses DOT pay increases for troopers and highway maintenance, approves jet disposition motion
Summary
The committee approved multiple Department of Transportation changes: a motion to sell or cannibalize one DOT jet for parts, a $5 million package for pay increases for troopers and highway maintenance (with a condition that new trooper‑1 hires receive increases only after advancing to trooper‑2), an adjustment to taser funding and a footnote tying pay additions to 2024 pay tables if enacted.
The Appropriations Committee took a series of global actions on the Department of Transportation budget.
Representative Pendergraft moved that the state either sell one DOT jet or disassemble it and save it for parts; members amended the motion to clarify the preference to ground one jet and retain it for parts so the remaining aircraft can be supported. The amended motion carried.
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