Senate Transportation Committee advances H 944 for FY2027 transportation program on 5-0 vote

The Senate Transportation Committee voted 5-0 to advance H 944, which sets the fiscal year 2027 transportation program and makes miscellaneous changes to transportation law.

The committee approved a clean draft during a brief session in which the chair asked members to review the bill over the weekend for any changes and said the committee may file a technical corrections amendment. "I'll move the bill," the Chair said before the Clerk called the roll.

Clerk: The bill was read into the record as "H 944, an act relating to the fiscal year 2027 transportation program and miscellaneous changes to laws related to transportation." During the roll call, senators present voted in the affirmative (Senator Brennan; Harrison; Senator Person; Senator White; Senator Westman), and the Clerk recorded the outcome as 5-0-0.

Committee leaders noted that some suggested language — described in the meeting as GMT's suggested text — was not yet included in the clean draft and will be added later. The Chair asked members to "read through the bill over the weekend" and indicated that a technical corrections amendment could follow.

After the vote the Chair thanked members for their work, saying the committee had "done a lot of hard work" and that "we really need to do this for the good of the state." The committee took no further public testimony or debate before voting to advance the bill.

The measure now moves to the next procedural step in the legislative process; no enactment date or subsequent committee schedule was specified in the meeting.