FIFTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE

SECOND SESSION, 2024

January 23, 2024

 

 

Mr. Speaker:

 

    Your TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC WORKS & CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

 

HOUSE BILL 3

 

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

 

     1. On page 2, lines 15 through 17, under the "Other State Funds" column, strike the dollar amounts and insert in lieu thereof:

 

                           "30,817.0

                           118,302.5

                           146,224.7".

 

     2. On page 3, lines 6 through 8, under the "Other State Funds" column, strike the dollar amounts and insert in lieu thereof:

 

                           "133,425.9

                           69,809.2

                           110,375.4"

 

     3. On page 3, line 23, under the "Other State Funds" column, strike "14,785.0" and insert in lieu thereof "17,835.0"

 

     4. On page 4, lines 6 through 8, under the "Other State Funds" column, strike the dollar amounts and insert in lieu thereof:

 

                           "8,464.2

                           21,093.4

                           15,982.3".

 

     5. On page 4, line 7, under the "Federal Funds" column, strike "11,527.3" and insert in lieu thereof "12,711.3".

 

     6. On page 4, line 8, under the "Federal Funds" column, strike "22,116.0" and insert in lieu thereof "27,616.0".

 

     7. On page 4, line 10, strike "eight million dollars ($8,000,000)" and insert in lieu thereof "nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000)".

 

     8. On page 4, strike lines 12 through 14 in their entirety.

 

     9. On page 4, between lines 17 and 18, insert:

 

     "SECTION 5. FISCAL YEAR 2024 BALANCES--NONREVERSION.--Any encumbered balances in the project design and construction program, the highway operations program and the modal program of the department of transportation at the end of fiscal year 2024 from appropriations made from other state funds and federal funds shall not revert and may be expended in fiscal year 2025.

 

     SECTION 6. FISCAL YEAR 2024 BUDGET ADJUSTMENT AUTHORITY.--The department of transportation may request budget increases of up to thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) from other state funds and fund balances to meet federal matching requirements and for debt services and related costs, intergovernmental agreements, lawsuits and construction- and maintenance-related costs.

 

     SECTION 7. FISCAL YEAR 2025 BUDGET ADJUSTMENT AUTHORITY.--The department of transportation may request program transfers between the project design and construction program, highway operations program, business support program and modal program for costs related to engineering, construction, maintenance services and grant agreements; may request program transfers into the personnel services and employee benefits category for the prospective salary increase and the employer's share of applicable taxes and retirement benefits; may request budget increases of up to eighty-five million dollars ($85,000,000) from other state funds and fund balances to meet federal matching requirements and for debt services and related costs, intergovernmental agreements, lawsuits and construction- and maintenance-related costs; and may request budget increases of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) from fund balances to mitigate emergency road conditions in transportation district two.

 

     SECTION 8. REAUTHORIZATION OF SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION APPROPRIATIONS.--The period of time for expending the two hundred fifty million dollars ($250,000,000) appropriated from the general fund in Subsection (1) of Section 9 of Chapter 271 of Laws 2019 for acquisition of rights of way, planning, design and construction and to match federal and other state funds is extended through fiscal year 2025.".

 

     10. Revise all totals and subtotals to correspond with these amendments.

 

and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS & FINANCE COMMITTEE.                            

                             Respectfully submitted,

 

 

 

                                                                 

Dayan Hochman-Vigil, Chair

 

 

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

 

Date

 

 

The roll call vote was 8 For 3 Against

Yes:      8

No:       Brown, Jones, Pettigrew

Excused:  None

Absent:   None

 

 

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