2022 House Bill 5791

Appropriations: Department of Transportation

Introduced in the House

Feb. 23, 2022

Introduced by Rep. Scott VanSingel (R-100)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Department of Transportation budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 5, 2022

Amendment offered by Rep. Nate Shannon (D-25)

To add $150 million for "critical road and bridge infrastructure".

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Darrin Camilleri (D-23)

To add $140 million for a "priority rail grade crossing/separation initiative".

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

To require signs on major road repair projects showing the total cost of the project and the estimated borrowing costs associated with it.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the House 76 to 27 (details)

The House version of the Department of Transportation budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2022. This would appropriate $6.774 billion of which $2.026 billion is federal money.

Received in the Senate

May 10, 2022

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 11, 2022

Passed in the Senate 21 to 12 (details)

To send the bill back to the House stripped of all actual appropriations except for $100 “placeholders," as part of a process to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the House

May 11, 2022

May 19, 2022

Failed in the House 0 to 106 (details)