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Senate panel advances supplemental transportation budget with eight amendments
Summary
The Senate Transportation Committee advanced substitute Senate Bill 6,005 (the 2006 supplemental transportation budget) after adopting eight amendments that redirect and clarify funding for multiple Department of Transportation programs, adjust reporting deadlines, and add several rail and local projects. The measure moves to the Rules Committee with a due-pass recommendation.
The Senate Transportation Committee advanced substitute Senate Bill 6,005 on Feb. 26 after adopting eight amendments that adjust appropriations, reporting deadlines and program implementation dates across multiple Department of Transportation accounts.
Brandon Popovac, staff to the committee, briefed the substitute and the eight amendments in alphabetical order. "Before you is, proposed substitute Senate Bill 6,005, the 2006 supplemental transportation budget," Popovac said, and he walked members through technical corrections, funding reallocations and program timing changes.
Why it matters: The bill and adopted amendments change how state transportation dollars are allocated for a mix of safety, rail, ferry and electrification projects, and they include both small net fiscal changes within the biennium and reappropriations that affect multi-biennial project funding and reporting obligations.
Key amendments and fiscal effects
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